One closet to house all our networking and media equipment. Most of the hard work was done by the previous owner with the CAT6, HDMI, and speaker wires all in wall.

Here’s the network panel close up. I’m not super stoked about putting my eero gateway in here to act as the router but currently not sure what to upgrade to. Suggestions welcome.

Update June 2021: people felt the methods in this post are too extreme. Fortunately, ASUS has since published a new support article on this topic, and I’ve heard that it works better. I haven’t tried it myself since I changed to eero (which works perfect with HomeKit) more than a year ago. Original post below.

I’ve had pretty good experiences with HomeKit with Philips Hue and Lutron Caseta. However, I noticed that standalone devices (ones that don’t have hubs) would often show “No Response” in HomeKit. This post shows some things that I learned trying to get all my devices to be reliable.