SensorKit - Smart Home Widgets

If you have a sensor that detects multiple elements like ewelink which tracks temperature and humidity the app defaults to one element only and cannot be changed.

I wanted some widgets to display the temperature of my rooms in HomeKit, this app does exactly that. I can’t really say much more, it does exactly what it says and it does it well. The widgets themselves look good and are in line with the iOS aesthetics.

This app does exactly what I was looking for - the ability to display the temperature from an Eve Weather sensor as a Home Screen widget. In this respect, it does the job perfectly and I have no complaints. Some suggestions to improve the app and make it 5 stars: - Ability to display multiple metrics on a single widget. For example, Eve Weather has temp and humidity, so it would be nice to display both metrics on the same widget. - Different sized widgets. Ability to have medium and large sized widgets to display data from multiple sensors in a larger widget. Only small is available currently. - Display metrics in the app. The app asks you to open it fairly regularly in order that it can update the widget, fair enough, this is the way iOS works. But it would be nice if, when you opened the app, that you actually see panels with your chosen widgets IN THE APP. This would give you more reason to open the app and would be a nice little dashboard to display various different sensor data. - Apple Watch complications. This would be awesome, the ability to add any sensor as an Apple Watch complication. There’s another app that does this well, Myatmo, but that only works with Netatmo weather data. SensorKit could do the same thing for all HomeKit sensors. Or at least those that make sense on Apple Watch, such as temperature. I notice the app hasn’t been updated for 9 months, so I really hope it’s still being supported and the developer can implement the improvements suggested above to make this an excellent 5 star app. Keep up the good work.

The widgets don’t update in real time. You have to touch into them, which opens the app, then close the app to see the updated information on your widgets. Even then information shown is not always accurate to what’s actually in the Home app. Don’t buy this.

Amazing effort!! Would love the ability to customize how the widget looks. Especially changing the 24hour clock to a 12hour clock, but why stop there? Lots of wasted space in the widget and would like to be able to modify it.

Nice looking widgets, but the refresh rate is abominable. For example, right now I have a widget that hasn’t been updated in 5 hours. The FAQ is mostly excuses blaming iOS for why refresh is so infrequent, but I have other apps which update in a timely manner, so I’m disappointed in this app.

This app is a great idea and could be very useful for me to see my HomeKit sensor status at a glance. However, without background refresh, I have to open the app constantly to get the current data. This means I never know if the widgets are telling me the truth unless I have just opened the app, which renders it almost useless. Dev, if you have the ability, please fix this.

This is an update to my original review. Originally I gave 3 stars because it had room for improvement. Dropped it to 2 Stars, for the fact that I have to open the app daily to get it to “refresh” the data. Isn’t that what the background app refresh is for. The developer also reached out to me, and gave me a heads up they fixed the issue with the temp only showing in celsius, and that a few more sensors were added. Unfortunately garage doors or at least my garage door’s sensors don’t show up. I’ve now deleted the app, and probably won’t be using it going forward.

This is a good try but should have started as a Testflight beta to iron out the kinks. Not being able to use the correct temperature units results in apps that are… half baked.

Saw this from the Reddit post and I’m trying it out. I hope you roll out more features like switching between f and c temps and multi sensor widgets. I like the app and will continue to watch its development.