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HomeKit is a useful tool for managing your Apple household. Blogger has managed to pull off a truly unique feat. To HomeKit He managed to get his Jaguar I-Pace, which allows him to monitor and control certain elements of the car, of course with the help of an app. Home.

Using a plugin HomeJaguar InControl API Bridge (called homebridge-jlr-incontrol) Ellis could transmit vehicle data to HomeKit. For example, it was about the charging status, current charge level, climate control, locking, unlocking and more. The Plugin itself apparently required a very significant amount of manual adjustments. But it works correctly, as do many other solutions based on HomeBridge for ‌HomeKit. Integration into the application Home allows you to create automations, for example based on battery level. This allows you to set up automatic charging of your car from a socket that supports HomeKitwhen the battery is below a certain level maximal capacity. Blogger also has automation to pre-condition the car's temperature (sets the temperature before entering the car) and its battery based on events in the Calendar app. It is also possible to automatically unlock the car at certain times of day or under certain selected conditions.

User also added CarPlay, which is not supported by the specific modified car model, and he was able to implement this function himself using a wireless adapter "CarPlay" called CPLAY2air and also mounted a MagSafe charger on the dashboard for convenient iPhone charging. Although it must have taken a lot of work, the result is definitely worth it, what do you think?

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