I took advantage of time at home to finally setup the Raspberry Pi Zero W that’s been sitting in the drawer for some time. I’m accessing it headless using my iPad. The combination of Secure ShellFish and Textastic seems to be a good SSH / file management duo.
I would enjoy hearing what others are doing with RPi in the context of iOS/Mac and automation. This is all new for me. – jay
I’m using a Raspberry Pi 3 as a host for HomeBridge. You could do it with a Pi Zero W too, but my Zeros are all portable ones and get shut down regularly (there’s nothing more annoying that Siri saying “I’m sorry, I was unable to connect to some devices”!).
PiHole is also amazing. It can block ads for everyone on your network - which to me is automation because then you don’t have to do work on each individual device
Ah… thanks for this one @RosemaryOrchard. HomeBridge looks fascinating given I own multiple devices of manufacturers listed in their “don’t support HomeKit” blurb!! Should be a good project to experiment with. Cheers!