The Home Remote

I am using Home Remote on iPad 2 to control my smart home. What is great about this application, is that it allows you to fully design a "dashboard" to fit your home automation needs. I, for example, created a layout of my house (with garage and rooms etc) with all the lights and shades that can be controlled. I hung the tablet on the wall at the enterense to my house. No other home automation application, that I saw, had this capability of designing your on dashboard from scratch. The designing is done via a separate PC application. Ready made templates help you to get started, although it can be a little tricky for those not familiar with drawing tools. Home Remote also has a long list of smart devices it can connect to. This includes many smart home hubs, sound receivers, lights, thermostats and more. The list is expanding all the time. Last but not least, the developer, Bill, is very responsive and there is an active forum for asking questions and getting asnwers. I highly recommend this application to both professional and DIY fox that are doing smart home projects.

This WAS an awesome app but the developer is no longer supporting it. Integrations have stopped working because he isn’t maintaining it anymore unfortunately.

It seemed great at first and I even bought the business edition login. That said the app appears to only sync a portion (176) of my SmartThings devices (across two hubs and 280 devices). A lot of devices are missing. The business edition login doesn’t even seem to work even after paying for it. I kinda just gave up on trying to use that particular feature. However I am trying to use more but finding it limited since it can only partially sync devices. Hopefully I just missed something that needed to be done or a feature enabled.

This is a great app, but it starts with a white screen(and it goes to dark mode only after a few seconds), even when it is set to dark mode and it is really annoying when you are using it in a home theater. It happens on Android and IOS. It should be very simple to solve. This is the only thing missing to this app to get 5 star.

I was a user of the now discontinued VeraMate application, and I was looking for a user interface that could give me the data I needed at a glance. I constructed a VeraMate replacement user interface with all of the data and control functions I needed in under two days. There is one thing it seems I cannot do, dynamic tile reordering. When a device is "inactive," it will leave a blank space in the device browser. When the device is "active," it will then fill in that space. A few notes on customizing: The app will run without Designer using default groups. Highly customizable with Designer. A Windows machine is required to run Designer. Designer has a mild learning curve. Some programming knowledge is helpful. I really like this program, and it definitely fulfilled my needs. If you dig in and learn the Designer operating principles, I think you'll be very happy with the end result.

Control all of the devices listed from one, simple to use, app. Download the desktop app and you can modify or build your own design. Works great on IPhone and IPad. The developer is quick to respond if you have an issue. Give it a try - you won’t be disappointed.

This app is SO much faster to get the job done. The native Android app to control my lights takes too many steps. This app fires up immediately and controls my lights with very little delay.

I just got a harmony hub and was horrified when I opened the app and saw the layouts for my devices. Thank you for providing a device remote app that actually look like a remote and not a jumbled mess with misspellings.

please can you add support broadlink universal remote

So fast to initialize and config and useful app . Thanks