Because the hub was designed specifically for homekit. Hue designed theirs to work with homekit. It's the difference in operations. Try to add homekit devices to hue's app...you can't. Now try it with Insteon...you can.
The difference in setup allows you to add different devices to one app. If everyone took hue's approach this would not be possible. The same with lutron. Everything works within their app. Outside of thermostats, try to add other stuff and you can't. Insteon could have taken this same route and everyone would be stuck with using their products the same way they've been doing... separately.
Since Insteon chose full homekit support at initial release and harmony not being homekit compatible it wouldn't work with it. Unfortunately there is no single controller that works with everything.
The difference in setup allows you to add different devices to one app. If everyone took hue's approach this would not be possible. The same with lutron. Everything works within their app. Outside of thermostats, try to add other stuff and you can't. Insteon could have taken this same route and everyone would be stuck with using their products the same way they've been doing... separately.
Since Insteon chose full homekit support at initial release and harmony not being homekit compatible it wouldn't work with it. Unfortunately there is no single controller that works with everything.
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