LIFE CHANGING Apple HomeKit Accessories (CES 2025) 💡🏡

This year at CES 2025, I discovered some of the most game-changing Apple Home accessories that will truly transform your smart home. At the end of the video, I'll tell you which one was my favorite one. I guarantee you've never seen a smart home accessory like this one. Let's dive in and see everything that was announced at CES 2025 for everything Apple Home. Now first off, we obviously had to stop by the Acara booth. And Acara just launched a bunch of Apple Home Starting off with the G410 doorbell, which is way better than the last generation. What's most important about it is that it's now a hub. We've seen Acara doing this to other products, so it's incredible to see it in the doorbell itself. The quality of the video goes from 1080p to 2K and an improved presence sensor and a wider field of view. Acara also launched the G100 security camera, which looks absolutely stunning. It comes in both black and white and it can be used indoors and outdoors. It's got a 2K resolution and even has a spotlight. So if you use it outdoors during night, a light will actually turn on. So I wanted to show you the camera G100 in action. I just like the way that it feels very premium. You can use it pretty much indoor or outdoors. And if we get a closer look on it, you've got this little floodlight right here, very circular, small. If you see my hand, it's really not that big compared to the big guy, the G5 Pro, which is an absolute beast. It's still got great quality as well. Also, as we were mentioning in the video, the G410, which is now a hub, which is the best thing about it. If you see the difference with the G4 that we've always had, that wasn't a hub, pretty much the same design as you can see. It got rid of this viewfinder right here. It doesn't have it anymore, but in terms of aesthetic, it looks exactly the same. Acara's Panel Hub S1 Plus is an incredible product, but it wasn't available in the US. But at CES 2025, they just announced it's finally coming to the US. Its form factor is different, is unique. It's got a speaker, so you can actually interact with the intercom itself. It will be able to control all of your smart home, all of Acara's products, and all of Matter-enabled products as well. Acara also announced the Camera Protect Kit Bundle, which brings incredible value because it comes with a security camera and all the sensors that you need in a smart home. It's pretty much a phenomenal all-in-one setup. This is super cool. I was telling you in the video, but it's now a kit that we don't know the price yet, but according to Acara, it should bring good value and everything's already connected, which is pretty cool. And this is the white version that I was telling you about the G100. I love it in white. And in my opinion, this looks so much more premium than the E1. I just love this new design, Acara. You're doing it right. The previously announced Dimmer Switch H2 is also now coming to the U.S. You'll be able to control your lights, the temperature, the brightness. The previously announced Touchscreen Dial V1 is also now coming to the U.S., which is this extremely satisfying dial, which will allow you to turn on, control your lights, the brightness, the color. And the dial itself actually has haptic feedback, so it is incredibly satisfying to turn it around. We've also got a new product, the Climate Sensor W100. So you'll be able to control your heating system now with the Acara ecosystem. It's an incredible new product from Acara and will even let you see your local weather directly from the device itself. Check it out. You can simply, bam, snap it. You can get rid of it. You can put it in your couch. You can snap it in your wall. Hands on with it. It looks very nice. What's nice about it, Acara actually just told me it connects to your weather. So within the Acara app, you tell it your city, where you're from, and it will actually display the weather directly from your local city or village, whatever. It's amazing. You've got a plus, a minus, and a physical button right here to control all your smart home, whatever you want. Super happy that Acara finally made a Climate Sensor that I'm probably going to use. But definitely the star of the show from Acara was the Multi-Sensor FP300. Now, we've already seen present sensors from Acara, but the thing about them was that they always had a wire. So if you put them in your wall, you have to see a wire hanging. And that was because of a reason, but now the FP300 has a built-in battery, so you don't need a wire. It's got a temperature sensor, a light sensor, a presence sensor. The only thing that it doesn't have compared to the other ones with the wire is that it doesn't have fall detection or sleep monitoring, which for a lot of people, that's not a big deal. That's why they exist. It is extremely compact. I mean, just check Let me show you my favorite product that Acara has released at CES. So present sensors, right? We've always had the FP2. This is the FP1e, and they're great. They've got more advanced features than what Acara has just released, but a lot of people don't need most of the features. Let me explain. So the problem with these sensors is that they are wired, right? So you've got a cable just floating in your room, which is fine if you wanted to, but this is the FP300. It does not have the fall detection, the sleep tracking, a lot of features that me personally, I don't use in my smart home, but this gets rid of all of that, allowing it to not have a cable flying. It's just a battery-powered presence sensor. It looks great. It's way smaller. This is something that I could definitely put in my studio, in my room. Very, very happy with it. If I want to show you a quick hands-on, look at my hand. It's very, very small. Obviously, all of the cars that I've just mentioned will be linked down below in the description. Acara, thank you so much for sponsoring this video and for being the star of the show at CES 2025 for everything Apple Home. Gobi also announced some killer new products this year, starting off with the Gobi Table Lamp 2 Pro, which is a lamp on top of a speaker, and the speaker itself is a collaboration with JBL. So the speaker themselves are from JBL. It's got matter support, sound syncing, and you can even pair them in stereo if you've got multiple. The design itself is beautiful. The colors are extremely bright as Gobi always does. It just makes so much sense to have this for so many people because it's just a very beautiful product. Gobi also announced its new mini panel light, which also comes with matter support. They're like these little modular panel lightings, but you can stack them on top of each other. You can connect up to 70 panels and create these creative pixel-like effects. It's got improved MCU chips, allowing for better pattern recognition with up to 50 scenes with immersive music syncing. Gobi demoed this product in such a sick room while there was Mario Kart playing on the TV. I mean, just check it out. So what I like about the mini panel lights is that they're actually very mini, allowing you to just customize them a lot. As you can see, this panel right here that Gobi actually set up, it truly shows you a type of setup that you can have in your studio and in your living room. You can have, you know, Mario Kart playing right now, and if you add so many, it gives you like this super customizable look and keep adding and keep buying them and just add, you know, you don't have to buy all of them at once, right? You can just keep buying panels, and if you want to take a closer look, you know, closer, that's the way that they, that's the way that they look. The Gobi up lighter floor lamp is also new with matter support. It projects this incredible lunary mood lighting effect on your ceiling. What's also nice is that the bottom part of the lamp also features lighting, so you've kind of got two things. One, like a projector that shoots up in the sky, and two, a standard light. It's translucent, it is stunning. You've also got a physical button on the stem itself, so you've got manual control. So this right here is the uplifter floor lamp from Gobi as well. Now, I wanted to show you the hands-on because right here on the right, there's these buttons that you can tap, and not only will it customize and turn on and, you know, control the top light, there's actually a bottom light in the bottom as well, so it will not only project the light up top, it will also project it down. And I just love the fact, always, when smart home products have manual control, so you've got bottom lighting, you can make it cooler, warmer, and just the buttons being accessible right here is a very nice touch. The new Gobi tree floor lamp is also sick. It has three lights that has this cinema style lens to it, which allows you to change the intensity and the focal length of the light manually, which is cool. Okay, so the tree floor lamp is actually super interesting, the way that it works, because one, you can actually move it around, so all of them are fully adjustable, and what's not only that, but you can actually move them and twist them, so you can make the actual light larger or smaller, like more on a spot look. I just think, like, this one's super, super cool because it's just super, super adjustable. One of my favorites from Gobi was the new Gobi pendant lamp. It comes in this black color. I actually asked Gobi to make it white to fit my home, that thing would look beautiful. It doesn't only have standard white lighting, there's also obviously a range of beautiful color. It's translucent, it hangs from this cable up to your ceiling, and it will just look great in any table. So this is the actual pendant lamp itself. It's got this translucent look, plastic string on the top. I wish this could be, like, more string-like, but it looks great. It will only come in black, hopefully it will also come in white, that's something that I told Gobi, and the light is very, very pleasing. It obviously comes and customized in a bunch of colors. There were also a couple outdoor lights, such as these outdoor pathway lights too, which were also Matter-enabled. Now, right behind me are a bunch of Gobi HomeKit products that haven't been out yet, but they are coming soon, later this year. Now, these are all outdoor lights. I wanted to show you just quickly a hands-on with them. So here are the outdoor garden lights from Gobi. They're very, very cool. They're very stem, very tree-looking. They've got these little sticks right here, which will look great in a garden. There's a hands-on with them, and then right there, there's the same ones. The iDot booth was also full of lighting. Their star of the show was their new ETA TV light and HDMI sync box, which are coming later this year with MatterSupport. I talked to their team and they're finally bringing their entire ecosystem with MatterSupport, which will obviously mean with Apple Home Support. They have these string lights that you could attach them to a pole with this really cool texture to it. It's amazing to see all of these products coming to MatterSupport, and I feel like that's kind of been the trend that we've been seeing with smart homes at the CES, is that all the companies do want to have MatterSupport because they truly know how important it is to us as customers. They had a bunch of light bulbs, smart plugs, motion sensors, and light switches as well. Another star of the show for Apple Home at CES 2025 was Flick. And Flick just announced the Flick Duo, which is one of the most creative smart home products I've seen in years. So we all know Flick, right? I have a bunch of Flick buttons around my home, which allow Flick Duo takes that to a whole different perspective. So the Flick Duo is a well-mounted smart button that you can pick up and control other gadgets using customizable gestures. And what I mean by gestures is actually gestures. You can customize up to 30 programmable motion-based commands up and down, left to right, and you can even configure different commands based in different locations. It can turn on the lights in your kitchen when you're in your kitchen, but then if you bring it to your living room and you do like this to the left, the TV lights can go on and the curtains can turn off. It is so customizable, it's incredible. It will launch in the second quarter of this year, and I was definitely so impressed by it. So we all know and love the Flick button, but here's a quick comparison with the Flick Duo in terms of size. Pretty much one Flick button, and it adds extra versatility. So the device itself has so much customizability, as you can see. If we come up close, we have push, a double push, a hold, a hold and twist, a hold and swipe. That's what's cool. You can program all the different buttons and then have all the different movements. It's truly the next evolution for what a smart button should mean because of all the crazy customizability that you can do with it. Super, super impressed with it. TP-Link's TAPO also launched two new Matter-compatible products this CES. Their latest product was this light switch, which had four customizable buttons that could be programmed for a tap or a hold. So it pretty much gives you eight different actions with just one single product. They also launched their smart button, very similar to what Flick did with the Flick Twist, which allows you to have a physical button with a tap and a hold and have a physical knob to control the brightness of your lights. All right, so TAPO has actually released a couple new products here at CES, and they've just announced the TAPO Mate Switch. So what's special about it is that you've got three different buttons. This one, this one, and this one. This one you can hold and for example, this is actually programmed right now, so you can switch it from mood lighting to just lighting from your home. It's pretty awesome. You can customize it a bunch. We've also got the TAPO smart button, which is cool. So you can actually rotate it. It will actually, there's a demo right here that works. It's not really that, that smooth. It's kind of like, you know what I mean? You can tap it, it will turn off, tap it, turn on, TAPO smart button. Pretty cool. UTECH has been killing it with their smart locks lately, and they just announced their new Matter-enabled smart lock with Apple HomeKey support. And the best thing about it is that it has an ultra-wideband chip. And as we saw in iOS 18, ultra-wideband chip smart locks will allow you to just walk in your home without actually needing to tap on your watch with a smart lock or with your iPhone. You'll just walk in and the door will open automatically when it knows it's you, that you're close to the smart lock. It's got a fingerprint sensor, physical buttons, physical key, and Apple HomeKey. They also announced a new Matter smart plug to join all of their Matter-enabled product lines. What's incredible about CES as well is that you discover a bunch of brands that you've never seen or heard of before. And Zemus was full of Apple Home accessories. They had beautiful Apple Home products like these light switches, which looked incredible. You had them in different variations with three customizable buttons, so you can control three different lighting or lighting effects. They also had a large variety of Matter curtain systems that came in different sizes. Their protagonist though was the new M6 Matter Hub, which enabled all of their smart home accessories to become Matter thanks to its hub. From light bulbs to sensors. I also discovered the company Neo at last CES, which had a bunch of Apple Home accessories like their soil sensor, which has a precise temperature and humidity monitoring. Their smart sprinkler, which has support to turn on and off your water valve. It has timed irrigation, a built-in water consumption and water flow sensor. They have their human presence sensor pro, which has a radar detection, real-time radar scanning, and a bunch more accessories like their motion sensors, smart plugs, temperature sensors, water sensors. Their light switches were also stunning and made out of glass. They had them in a couple different variations from one button to two buttons to three buttons. Onvis was another brand that I never heard of before, and they were showcasing all of their HomeKit product line. They announced at CES 2025 their T20 power socket, which allows for two different sockets to be controlled by Matter, and it was actually their first ever Matter-enabled product. The rest of their product line was only Apple Home, like their outdoor motion sensor, which has an IP67 water rating, three years of battery life. It has a motion sensor, temperature sensor, and humidity sensor built in. So you've got four products in one. They have their CT3 contact sensor, their CS2 security sensor, their CMS2 motion sensor, and all of their products are actually built on thread. As I said in the beginning of the video, there was one product that truly caught my eye on how different it was, how unique it is, and it's something that has never really done before in the Apple Home space, thanks to its new Matter support, and that was the new SwitchBot K20 Plus Pro. And it's basically a multitasking household robot. So it's obviously a smart vacuum robot, but what's special about it is that it's modular. At CES, they were showcasing that you could stack it up to their humidifier and a table, so it's pretty much a robot that could bring you a drink. You could ask your wife, hey, can you put a Coke on the fridge? You put the Coke on the fridge, and then the robot will take you that Coke. But SwitchBot told me it can pretty much do anything. It can be a vacuum, it can be a delivery expert, a self-moving screen, so you could actually mount an iPad to the robot itself. So if you're working out, it could be a display for your iPad. It is a monitoring guard, so you can put a security camera. So you could technically have a security camera that could move in your house. So if you have a dog and you want to see how your dog is doing, or if you just want a security camera that moves, it's meant for that. Or even air purify specific rooms in your home. Me personally, I've got like four air purifiers around my home. So instead with this, if I want to purify a room, I can just tell SwitchBot, hey, purify my living room, and it will go there and purify it. I don't know, this modular type of device. I know it's bulky, I know it's weird, but I just find it very unique, and I just had to give my congratulations to SwitchBot for making such a different and unique product that really caught my eye. Another special mention to the Roborock Xero C70, which was definitely the star of the show to a lot of people here at CES 2025. So it's a robot vacuum that actually has an extended arm, so it can actually pick up socks, dog toys around your home, and leave them wherever you wanted to leave them, in a box, in a storage room. Seeing it in person was incredible because it truly felt like a smart robot. It will launch during the mid of 2025, hopefully, but it was also definitely one of my favorite products here at CES 2025 in terms of Apple Home. I also ran into one of my favorite creators as well that got a chance to see the Nanoleaf booth, which I didn't, and some of their upcoming products, which definitely caught my eye. So, oh, wait, who are you? Oh, look, it's one of my favorite YouTube channels ever, HomeKit. How are you? I'm great, Nikias, nice to see you here. Do you guys follow? Links in the description if you want to check out his channel. Incredible HomeKit content, favorite HomeKit accessory at CES. I'm going to have to go with the FP300 from Aqara, having a millimeter wave presence sensor without having to have cables. Without it, just battery. Battery operated, and then you can put it anywhere you want, and then just have the lights turn on when you walk in the room. We'll see, hopefully. You don't have certain features like the fall detection, right? Yeah, there's not all the features that the FP2 has. Did you use it? But I didn't use it. I just want the simple, am I in the room? I've got fall detection on my Apple Watch. I don't need an S sensor to do it. Exactly. So, it's not so small. It's just, it's great. Yeah, it's nice size. I'm excited to get my hands on it and see if it lives up to what they're talking about. Have you seen any trends here, like in CES, in terms of HomeKit? I mean, you just told me a lot of matter, right? Yeah, there's a lot of matter. There's a lot of ultra wideband locks, but nothing really shipping yet in that whole new Alero category. And then some smart displays, I think, are another category, as well as in the robot vacuums of matter. I think those are... Will those come in the whole map, though? Well, hopefully 18.3, 18.4. Yeah, we are very close to that. Yeah, we're getting there. And I also just checked out some of Nanoleaf's stuff. They have a 4D V2 coming out, which is a new version of their 4D experience for TV lighting. Nice. They're also doing the same kind of idea, but for computer monitors, so you can have it on your Mac or gaming PC. All HomeKit? All HomeKit, all matter. And then they also have a tower light, LED tower light, that is available for pre-order now for $90, regularly costs $99 US. I saw it there on display. It looks really nice. Nice. You actually made a whole video about this, right? Yes, and a lot more from CES. Do you want them to watch it? I want you to watch it. So you know what you should do? Go check it out. It's this right here. Top it. This is the video. 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