Pow-K+ module integrated with Apple Home

[Andy46cap]

Hello ..
Have anyone some experience with Pow-K+ and Apple Home ?

[ArnieO]

Thank you for starting a potentially interesting discussion.
However, what I find does not seem to be feasible for our products, at least not in our current modest-scale production volume.

It is technically possible to add code to our project to use the the Apple Homekit environment / connect to Apple Home.
However, linking a commercial product to the Apple Homekit environment requires an Apple license, see below.

So my current conclusion is that we will not go there at this time.

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This is what I find:

I find this project on Espressif's Github: https://github.com/espressif/esp-apple-homekit-adk
It is "a port of Apple's Open Source HomeKit ADK for ESP32 and ESP32S2. This can be used by any developer to prototype non-commercial smart home accessories."

This Espressif page https://www.espressif.com/en/news/ESP_Apple_HomeKit_ADK
says
"Espressif’s Apple HomeKit Application Development Kit (ADK) can be used under the same terms as Apple’s original open-source ADK, which was meant as a tool for hobbyists and other developers experimenting with the platform. However, there is a route to commercial licensing. Anyone who is interested in commercializing their creations should register with Apple’s MFi licensing program first and, then, contact Espressif for more details on how to complete the process."

Information on Apple MFI:
https://mfi.apple.com/
https://mfi.apple.com/en/how-it-works