After tvOS 10, can I use HomeKit framework to create server app on AppleTV to control third party accessory? - homekit

After this WWDC 2016, I am still not sure can I write server or server like App on Apple TV to manage all of my accessories.
I wanna create an app can do the job like my BOSCH security alarm control panel.
You know, there are lots of rules and relationships in a standard security control panel. The control panel will response any event based on a serial of comprehensive rules.
Is that possible to make Apple TV works like security alarm system?

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AIY Voice Kit with Voice HAT on Raspberry Pi 3 suddenly requires Google Assistant on phone. Why?

After deleting all activity associated with the Google account linked to the AIY Voice Kit Pi project, the Assistant no longer responds to voice input queries. Now the Assistant responds, "Actually there are some basic settings that need your permission first. Just go into the Google Assistant settings on your phone for more details." I did not use a phone for initial setup of the AIY Voice Kit project. Why would I need to use a phone now? Is there a workaround that I can do using the web interface of my Google account?
You should be able to follow these instructions through the web to enable certain permissions in order to use the Assistant.
Open the Activity Controls page
Ensure the following toggles are on:
Web & App Activity
In addition, be sure to select the Include Chrome browsing history and activity from websites and apps that use Google services checkbox.
Device Information
Voice & Audio Activity
If you are using a corporate managed Google account with the Google Assistant SDK ask your administrator to turn on Web & App Activity (for everyone or just your account). Ours was turned off for everyone which prevents an individual user from selecting the "Include Chrome browsing history and activity from websites and apps that use Google services" checkbox.
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Beacons integration without application on device

Can i know is it possible to communicate with Beacon without having any Mobile app on device?
Thanks in advance
Both Android and iOS devices need some kind of app installed to interact with your beacons. Some phones have such apps pre-installed, but the options are limited. The two such apps with the widest distribution are:
Google Chrome App (Android/iOS)
Google's Chrome app will interact with beacons supporting Eddystone-URL (also known as physical web), which transmit a URL that can be displayed within Chrome when the app detects it.
This works on both Android and iOS devices with Chrome installed. For newer Android phones, this is a relatively high percentage of devices. For iOS, it is a very small percentage, as the app is not installed by default. This makes it of very limited use on iOS.
The other real drawback to relying on Chrome for beacon detection is the hoops users have to jump through to opt-in, and the way the beacon notifications are buried. Until users opt-in, they will see no notifications on beacon detections. Once they do, they will see a very generic notification "Physical web beacons are nearby", and only once the user taps on that are the specifics about the web page associated with the beacon transmitted URL displayed.
Passbook (iOS)
Apple's passbook app will bring up a passbook entry (usually used for tickets, coupons, etc.) associated with a set of iBeacon identifiers if the user comes within range of the beacon. In order to use this, however, the user must first download the passbook entry to his or her iPhone. Only once this is downloaded and opened will the app respond to associated beacons.
EDIT April 2020: For a time prior to December 2018 Google supported app-less notifications based on beacon detection using their Google Nearby product. This was discontinued in December 2018 due to predictable abuse and spam that it generated. While you may find some outdated documentation online about this ability, understand that this feature no longer works. As of this writing, my understanding is that this answer is still correct.
You should checkout Eddystones from Google. They can push you URLs even without app.
If you want to interact with beacons and do custom stuff (notifications, http requests, etc) you will need an app.

Android Wear: custom apperance for notification

How to implement such appearance for notification card using Android Wear SDK?
Demo video — http://youtu.be/tKoQatxG0_8?t=26s
It has the same custom layout in preview and active mode. But I cannot achieve such behaviour using setDisplayIntent and related API for creating custom layouts. I checked samples of wear apps from SDK, it also has different views for preview and active mode of custom layout notifications.
Oh no!
Right now it's hidden API, so Google can make such appearance for standard apps, but other third-party developers are out of the board.
Confirmed by +Wayne Piekarski — https://plus.google.com/u/0/+BenoitBoDLubek/posts/2o4SVBhWg5z
So the answer is impossible at current moment.

Using an enterprise app for Single App Mode with Profile Manager in Mavericks Server (MDM)

I have a bunch of iPads that are all supervised, and that are enrolled into a MDM server (Mavericks Server). I've added the app to the specific device group, but when I go to the profile settings and Single App Mode the only apps I can select are the builtin ones.
Is there no way to use a third party (enterprise) app as the app for Single App Mode?
EDIT: If you use Apple Configurator and add the app there you can set Single App Mode to use that app, I would imagine that would be possible when doing the same in Apple's Profile Manager, but it doesn't seem to be working here.
EDIT2: Looking at Apple's documentation it does indeed seem to be possible to select a third party app for single app mode using their Profile Manager, so why isn't the app showing in the list for me?
http://images.apple.com/education/docs/assessment_with_ipad_mar2013_v2.pdf
Go to the Device Group, after installing the app (that you want to show in Single App Mode dropdown and lock it to) do "Update Info" (small icon in bottom-middle-left of screen) on all the devices in that group. Wait a bit, then go to Single App Mode screen again, the app should start appearing.Works for me. The "Update Info" thing also works for Single Device as well and you can lock to any new app installed from Profile Manger, doesn't matter if the app was installed while supervising through Configurator or not.
So interestingly enough in the new update for Server (3.1.1) this seems to be working. The Enterprise app is now listed in the dropdown box.
However there also is about 10 empty items in the box with no text description. So it's clearly still a bit buggy.

one device controlling a number of devices actions

I am making an app in which the administrator controls other devices in the same wi-fi network and controls the actions like viewing a document by the others,which, is the same as what the administrator is viewing....i need the code for this using zero-configuration networking
The Developer Docs on the palm developer center are very good. This is the service you probably need to read up on and understand...
https://developer.palm.com/content/api/reference/services/zeroconf.html

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