u/Dignan17

To start off: I'm a UI fan, and this isn't meant to be a slam or anything. I just haven't paid as much attention to UI product announcements lately, so I feel like I missed the initial discussions on Superlink, and I'm trying to understand its use case and place in the market.

I'm also someone who has decades of experience in home automation and the technologies involved in that space. In both my home and work environments, I run a Unifi network with Home Assistant for automation. There's certainly a ton of folks over at r/smarthome with this kind of setup.

Please correct me if I'm wrong, but the advantages of Superlink appear to be:

• low frequency for better range
• integration with the Unifi system
• ...a third thing?

My biggest issues with the available Superlink products are:

• that they seem to be surprisingly large, especially for...
• devices that appear to be running on button cells? Is that correct? I'm very surprised by the claim of 6 years of battery life when using buttons *edit: sorry, my brain was dumb and thought they were button cells but they're not
• they cost significantly more than alternative automation devices

Again, I'm not trying to bash UI here. I can see a world where these are intended to be aimed at the people/businesses who just have a Unifi ecosystem and aren't interested in going any further into the automation world than door sensors that work with Protect. If that's the justification, I'm actually good with that. I'm sure someone will create - or has created - an HA integration for Superlink products, so if those people wanted to expand their automation systems in the future, they could.

I think my biggest disappointment - from what I understand of Superlink so far - is that UI didn't use an existing protocol for their stuff. They didn't even have to use something like Thread/Matter. If they wanted low frequency hardware, they could have used ZWave. I would have gone absolutely nuts if they had used Zigbee, and added functionality into Ubiquiti Network that would assist in managing/separating channels to reduce interference (which I've already done manually on my networks). I can't help but think that they just did this proprietary thing so they could make more money. And yeah...they can do that...but I'm not going to buy it.

This last update introduced an annoying bug with Carplay. Every time I start the car, Carplay starts up fine and I can start playing audio and begin navigation. But every single time, after about a minute, the audio cuts out, the nav freezes, and then the entire screen goes black for about 5 seconds. Fortunately, it all comes back up again, and it's not the end of the world, but it's annoying and a potential distraction.

On top of all that, every time there's an update I'm reminded that for some reason Kia can't figure out how to put one of these out without completely resetting all of my notifications. It's insane that the default notification setting is to get push notifications AND an email every time you start and stop charging. As a result, every time there's a software update, I get flooded with notifications. Your charging started! Your charging started! Your doors are unlocked! Your doors are unlocked! Your charging stopped! Your charging stopped!

SHUT UP!

As soon as I get an update that fixes this Carplay bug, I'm absolutely not updating the car again. It's clear that they cared more about adding more digital content for us to buy than they care about releasing stable software and fixing actual issues that annoy the customer.

I love this car, and it's so weird to have a car that I love, and yet I also have a mile-long list of extremely minor annoyances. None of them seem like a big deal individually, but added all together, they really start to color my opinion of the vehicle. I don't want to feel that way, but it's hard not to.

I have an Aqara U100. My phone has no trouble unlocking with home key. But my wife's phone doesn't, and neither of my kid's watches can either. They're all set up in the Home app as owner (wife) and residents (kids).

What should I be looking at?

The lock is paired to an apple tv.

There's a lot of things I love about my EV9, and almost everything that drives me crazy is very minor.

One of the very minor things is how this car seems to be nannying me at every step. I've never felt patronized by my own car before owning this one (and to less extent the Telluride I had before it).

The two examples I have are when I start the car:

• the HUD will say something like "check your blind spots when changing lanes"
• If it's even a little cold out, the dash will say something like "ICE POSSIBLE!"

Like the title says, I've been driving for decades, and I don't need to be reminded to check my blind spots. This is annoying, not helpful. I can't seem to find any way to turn it off.

If I could turn off the infotainment center's "keep your eyes on the road" message, I would, but I understand that this is federally mandated. I'm pretty sure that the "start" screen after that is not, though, which just gives me one more thing to do every time I start my car.

I know these are so minor, but these are just a few of the many little things that have been irritating me about this car, and I'm trying to not let them all add up and overshadow how much I like it. Are there any fixes for the ones I've mentioned here?