A while back I posted about an app I was building, and received some great feedback. It's finally on the App Store. That's my actual house on the wall in the video, running live.

The idea: scan your home once with your iPhone's LiDAR and it becomes a live 3D model, with your real Apple Home devices sitting exactly where they are in your house. Tap the lamp in the model, the real lamp turns on. Mount an iPad on the wall and it's an always-on display of your home: what's on, what's open, what needs attention, at a glance.

What makes it different: honestly, not the scan. Everybody scans now. RoomPlan gave every app the same starting point. Where the others lose you is everything after the scan: adding a device to the model means punching in X, Y, Z coordinates, and adjusting anything means fighting something that feels like a CAD tool. Configuring the apps that were supposed to simplify my smart home was harder than Apple Home itself, and I thought that was ridiculous.

So in SimpleHaven, everything after the scan is drag and drop. Drag a device out of the list and drop it where it lives. Done. Press and hold anything to move or resize it. Tap the floor and pick a color. Grab the sofa, drag it, twist two fingers to rotate it. If you can rearrange icons on a home screen, you can customize your entire house. That's what the "Simple" in SimpleHaven means, and it's exactly what made this thing brutally hard to build. Every coordinate box and settings screen I refused to show you became code that has to figure out the right answer on its own.

What it costs, plainly: the app is free. Scan your whole home, no size caps, all the editing tools, and place up to 5 devices or widgets on your model, fully working. Want more than 5? $39.99 once for everything forever: unlimited devices, unlimited homes, every future update. No subscription. I refuse to rent you your own house.

The practical stuff: works with anything in Apple Home. Everything stays on your device and your own iCloud. No account, no tracking, no server anywhere. Scanning needs a LiDAR iPhone or iPad (12 Pro and later Pro models, iPad Pro 2020+), iOS 18. There's a built-in demo home if you want to poke around before scanning anything.

I'm one person and this is version one of the vision. Tell me what's broken and what you want next. This sub already steered the last year of it.

https://apps.apple.com/app/id6774370998

https://simplehavenapp.com/

Hi all,

I'm moving to Indonesia in a few months and I want to outfit my home there to the same degree as I do now.

I currently use Philips Hue but as we all know it got really expensive recently (in 2023, I got a set of 18 Ambient White GU10s for €289 - should have bought 3x).

Can anyone recommend a good HomeKit-compatible GU10 brand in SE Asia. I don't see many at all; even Aqara doesn't sell GU-10s. We thought we'd be using recessed lighting but maybe this is wrong?

Any information from HomeKit homeowners would be immensely helpful.

Terima kasih - Thank you

I just got two Big Ass Fans Haiku L series fans. I updated the firmware on both to the most recent v3.3.8.

One successfully linked to HomeKit via matter set up code on the first try.

The other fails to set up each time.

I get a pop up that says uncertified accessory and it ultimately fails. Why would one work and not the other?

Their matter over thread thermostat announced at CES in January for a Q1 2026 release is still MIA as we enter September. Nothing but radio silence out of eve since then.

Is it dead?

I am trying to pair my door bell with the home app and it is giving me an insane amount of trouble. It was connected for a bit but then I had to reset it and now it refuses to pair again. I get it to the solid green light (ready to pair) then it sits for a minute and the light turns blue. After that the app says it was unable to connect to the network but the doorbell thinks it was set up. If you click the button it rings like it's paired, but it never connects to the home app.

I have tried:

- Reset (hold down button while plugging in and wait for green light)

- Disabling 5GHz on my router.

- Restarting my phone, force closing out of the home app.

- Leaving the door bell unplugged for an hour.

- Leaving the door bell plugged in for an hour while it stayed on the green light.

I'm really not sure what else to try with this thing and I'm ready to throw it out after all the trouble my Circle View camera has given me in the past. Thanks for any insight on this issue!