Apple intruded the Home app on our iPhone and iPad a long time ago, giving us the opportunity to control the devices in our home compatible with HomeKit. But the Mac and macOS were left out of these home automation capabilities. Until now.
At last, HomeKit compatibility and the Home app come to Macs thanks to the new macOS 10.14 Mojave unveiled at WWDC 2018.
With the next macOS update, Mojave, the possibility of controlling all compatible devices from our Mac will arrive. The app looks very similar to the one we already know on iOS and it seems that the possibilities will be, finally, the same in iOS and masOS.
Of course, it will also be compatible with Siri and we can ask Siri to turn off our lights, turn on the heating or any other Homekit function that we are already used to on our iOS devices.
This opens a range of immense possibilities in matters of home automation to which we spend a lot of time in front of our Mac, without a doubt it will be the beginning of taking advantage of Siri on macOS.
When HomeKit and the Home app came out, it seemed incredible to me that they allowed iPads to be used as an accessory hub but not Macs. Apple TV, in a privileged place in the house, still and always connected, seems like the ideal hub, but the iPad is quite the opposite. However, although they have not confirmed it, we may be able to use a Mac as an accessory hub now that HomeKit has arrived on macOS.
Remember that the macOS 10.14 Mojave developer beta will be available immediately and the final version will arrive in the fall.