The Home Remote

This has been one of the best apps I have used to consolidate and control over various vendors for home automation. Over the years it has slowly been loosing it ability though to work with some vendors. Most recently the MyQ functionality no longer works. The app development team needs to fix the broken ones.

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.

I have been wanting to build a customized Home Automation Dashboard on my iPad for a very long time, and I was very pleased to come across Home Remote. The Designer software was exactly what I was looking for. It provides very powerful interfaces to help me design my ideal dashboard - transparent buttons, scripts, extensive device support, web image feeders, … It does require some basic technical skills though. I’m not a programmer, so I had to spend a bit of time to figure it out, but I have gotten an amazing support from the owner of the software, and I’m very pleased with my results ! His wonderful responsiveness to my questions is definitely worth highlighting in my review.