Using Codex to build debugging views that otherwise would never be built is nice.
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Aaron Pearce
@aaron_pearce@mastodon.social
mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06Indie Developer of #HomeKit apps, such as HomeCam, HomePass, HomeRun, HomeLog and more. Admin of the iOS Developers Slack.
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Joined August 14, 2018
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Spent a few hours on the pairing screens today. Getting closer to something I am liking.
Starting to use Codex to generate development tools more and more. The latest is a way to generate dashboard layouts easily for HomeCam 3. Still a work in progress and some behaviours and features in this tool may not ship ever.
Playing with a trackpad design for pan and tilt control, getting stymied by my test cameras moving on the X axis, then Y, not both at once. Why accept both on a continousMove command if they won’t do it at the same time?
And based on asking other indies, it’s not worth your time or money to do. 😂
Trying to define how camera dashboards should work over multiple platforms is not simple. You can’t have a dashboard look the same on an iPhone as an iPad, let alone a TV. What layouts should be supported, what features within it, and whether to do progressive enhancement?
What great timing for Indigo to launch. My Ivory subscription was coming up to renewal 😂. Switched over now.
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@bens@mastodon.xyz @mattiem@mastodon.social @ryanashcraft@mastodon.social I’d love to make my apps into native Mac apps if Apple would stop holding HomeKit as a Catalyst hostage.
Wish this style of pan and tilt control would work, but given a lot of cameras don’t support running both directions at once with their motors, it’s not really suitable.
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@stephenrobles those are interesting devices in how they can work from the looks of it. Can’t wait to get my hands on one when they finally arrive in New Zealand.
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@pixelscience@mastodon.social shouldn’t need to come to that, I’ve added a demo video. Just feels pedantic to have to send one after years of it being out.
It might be time in this development cycle of HomeCam for the Camera Wall™️ to return.
Fell into the WebRTC rabbit hole over the last week. Got a plan for a future feature now.
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Would be even better if App Store Connect actually allowed me to upload the video they demanded.
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@helge@mastodon.social It's unreasonable in two aspects. One I physically cannot pair a HomeKit device on a Mac. And two, the app has been out for years, had hundreds of reviews without this. It isn't needed. More the principle of it than the actual reality of doing it that is annoying.
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@khaost Fair. Can't justify it for the limited Watch development I'm doing right now. And so much for them developing using the same tools as us 😉
Playing with a fourth option for cameras. Still unsure what I’ll release in the end but it’s a fun technical challenge to learn how to connect and get each camera stream type on screen.
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@dandh@mastodon.social You would think having a developer account since around 2011 would get you out of that check.