Where is HomeKit support for Flic Twist?
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@amir I find this bizarre. I bought this pack on kickstarter almost 2 years ago. It has only just arrived and there has been ample time to get HomeKit certification.
Furthermore Homekit absolutely does do dimming.
I am able to dim lights through the Home App using my existing nano leaf bulbs and I could also do this previously in the home app with my Lifx bulbs.
Below (in the image) is a Homekit dimmer
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@amir Will this Matter Controller be a separate product customers will have to pay extra for in order to use their Flic Twists with an ecosystem? Or will it be a firmware update to existing Flic hubs?
All of this seems like critical information that you could have included in the "now shipping" announcement about the Flic Twist. A large part of my annoyance with the current state of the Flic Twist is your failure to properly set expectations prior to delivery. Own these limitations and disclose them up front rather than leaving each user to have to dig them up and pull them out of you in your forums. At the very least, this information should be included in a FAQ on the Flic Twist product page (or the feature comparison grid on that page).
I would have been content to be able to use my Flic Twists without the dimming feature until that feature is available. But currently my Twists are completely useless to me. I backed this product with the expectation that the Twist would at least have feature parity with the Flic 2 Smart Buttons that I have been quite happy with. At no point did you disclose that this was not the case.
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@seth_flic Our biggest development priority right now is building Matter support. Our initial plan was to build a Matter bridge so that the Flic devices can be added into any ecosystem such as HomeKit. However Matter still lacks Dimmer support and so does HomeKit.
We have instead decided to build a Matter Controller. For reference, other Matter Controllers on the market are Alexa devices, HomePod, Apple TV, Google Home and SmartThings Hubs. This is a bigger task than we initially expected but by being a Matter Controller we can offer the best user experience for our users and offer not only dimming but all of the smart features that Flic Twist provides like Smart Dimming, Advanced Dimming, Scene Blender and Selector to control any Matter enabled device.
Over 500 companies are already members of the Matter alliance, feel free to browse the list of companies here:
https://csa-iot.org/members/