iOS VS integration

2. Firebase Cloud Messaging, for push notifications (since we can't talk to APNS directly in HA)

FCM is a dependency I'm actively trying to kill off in favor of an implementation that is both end-to-end encrypted and talks directly to Apple's Push Notification Service. Apple would not allow a solution where HA talks directly to APNS as they do not want that many active connections, and it would require disclosing private keys for the App STore account.

[0] https://github.com/home-assistant/iOS/pull/2010

I too am surprised to hear this. GP can you point to said spyware in the GitHub repo?

https://github.com/home-assistant/iOS

Only issue I'm seeing right now is balancing the security of your setup with the lack of iOS support for client certs. Looks like it's under some amount of development, but not much movement in the past 3 years: https://github.com/home-assistant/iOS/issues/27. Since I use our family's phones as a presence detection, I'd need the this to work with iOS.

Adaptive lighting is not a default for Home Assistant. It's an addon. You can install it through HACS (which is an addon itself) https://hacs.xyz/

Yup! There's a community integration you can install called Alexa Media Player. The easiest way to install it is by using HACS.

Can be added using HACS on top of your Home Assistant install.

[HACS](https://hacs.xyz/

Then install HACS which is an addon used to install unofficial themes and integrations https://hacs.xyz

There's extra things you can tuck into it, like the Home Assistant Community Store, or HACS for short.

That said, if you don't mind tinkering a bit, HASS can do quite a bit when you link it to things like the Home Assistant Community Store (HACS).

Home Assistant Community Store (HACS) is an easy way to add custom components from Github repositories (including your own).

This one here is a fork of that integration and work pretty well. I installed the integration with the Home Assistant Community Store (HACS) and it's been pretty solid.