It has been more than a year since Apple announced for the first time that it would allow device manufacturers to add support for the HomeKit smart home standard by authenticating software instead of ordering an actual chip supported by Apple, and now Wemo Mini is the first intelligent power plug to implement the standard with Update the firmware that has already been launched earlier.
Once the update is complete, Wemo Mini owners will be able to use smart ports directly with HomeKit, and you will need to pay an additional $ 40 for the Wemo Bridge hub, which was previously required to use devices with the Apple Smart Standard. However, you will still need a hub if you have other Wemo devices you want to use, even though Wemo says it looks forward to adding HomeKit support to other Wemo products later this year.
It will be a long time before other manufacturers begin adding HomeKit updates to their devices as well.
