App Profile: InkbirdSmart

Thomas abc123

Rating: 5/5

I’ve been using this app for at least 3 years now, works great, no functionality complaints. Only thing I would suggest is a better description of what all the set values are. High and low temperature limit and such, if your new to the basics of a temperature controller it may take some thinking to figure it out. Also I would rather see a “cooling disable” function as well as a “heat disable” function. Why is it not possible to let it only run in one mode or the other.

adiemonty

Rating: 4/5

I wasn’t happy about creating an account to connect to my own LAN. (which is patently absurd) But the app worked quite fine and allowed me to (albeit a bit cumbersomely) set a temp schedule to slowly crash my beer. But then the update happened and the app disconnected from my device without telling me, so I lost control and critical temp data. It is not intuitive that you show toggles for automation for a device once viewing the device, but can only edit those automations if you back out all the way to the home screen. I first thought you had removed the ability to add or delete steps (or even delete criteria) but now I see that is just in a different place. This should be more intuitive and consolidated. Don’t have two different places in an app to do nearly the same thing. Also, use the built-in iOS keyboard! Don’t recreate the wheel!

WAvara

Rating: 3/5

Messing with smart switches and apps for several years, even becoming a beta tester for one, I can see the potential in this app. The inkbird heating hysteresis and cooling back temperature settings are confusing, even to me as a 34 year instrument technician who specializes in temperature, pressure, level, and flow control. It works nothing like standard deviation settings are expected to work. One huge improvement would be to add an option to re-order the smart devices. They aren’t always added in order of importance, and being able to re-order the devices the way I like them would be ideal. Yes, other apps already have this option. Other than that, keep up the good work. I look forward to these improvements and my use of many more inkbird devices.