Surely many of us when we watched the series «the fantastic car»We thought we would never actually see it. Jumping over other cars, or launching missiles, surely not. But today we can already talk to some cars, and they will soon be driving alone.
At the moment, a clever user has managed to integrate his Jaguar into the application HomeKit from Apple. You still can't tell it to come from the watch, as in the series, but you can open the doors, or put the air conditioning on from the Apple Watch. Time to time.
Siobhan Ellis, is a clever user who has managed to integrate his electric car into Apple's HomeKit system, adding icons in the application to open the car, control the climate control, and other controls of his Jaguar.
The configuration, which is described in detail on the blog Practical HomeKit, allows to monitor, control and automate multiple elements of an electric vehicle Jaguar I-Pace using Apple's "Home" application.
Using a plugin HomeBridge For the Jaguar InControl API called homebridge-jlr-incontrol, Ellis has managed to bind vehicle data such as state of charge, charge level, climate, etc., into HomeKit, as well as send basic commands.
The plugin apparently required "a fair amount" of manual configuration and presented some warnings at startup, but it works fine just like many other HomeBridge-based solutions for HomeKit.
Integration with HomeKit opens the possibility of creating shortcuts, as well as home automation functions for the vehicle. With services like C available on most new vehicles, new services like carkey expanding, and Apple collaborating with brands like BMW and Porsche to bring Apple's built-in features to vehicles, it's not inconceivable to think that an official HomeKit integration for cars could be added in the future, especially after seeing fully test projects. functional like this one.