HomeWatch 17+
Controller for HomeKit
Peter Vogels
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- Free
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Description
I made an app for my Apple Watch to see a glanceable status of our home and to control our HomeKit devices. It worked so well on the watch, that I expanded it to a dashboard app for all our Apple devices. I have now added a configuration interface to make it compatible with any HomeKit enabled home setup. I hope some of you will find it useful.
HOME VIEW
The circle / grid with icons on the home view shows a color coded status of the rooms of the home: red when a door is open, yellow when a window is open, orange when the heating is on, cyan when lights are on and green when nothing is on.
On the iPhone, iPad, tvOS and Mac the app also shows the time, date, cameras, events, reminders, a website and weather information. When there is rain, it will show a rain graph.
ROOM VIEWS
When a room is selected, the circle layout will show the scenes you can control in that room. The grid layout also shows the devices that can be controlled in that room. Additionally the room view has an information section. To the right it can show any characteristics from your devices. Below is a detail view that can show a camera view, a website, a temperature, humidity and climate history graphs.
WIDGETS
Fully customisable lock-screen and home-screen widgets. Tap / Clicking a widget item to go directly to a room view, execute a scene or launch any url-scheme. Customisable complications on the Watch can have actions to go directly to a room view and execute any scene.
MENU BAR ITEMS
On the Mac any HomeKit characteristic can be added to the menu bar and is kept up to date.
CUSTOMISATION
The interface can be fully customised. The user can add their own background images and icons from the photo library. Customise gradient overlays, icons, fonts, colours and more. Make it your own…
What’s New
Version 1.9.6
1.9.6
- Replaced the fullscreen button with a back button, in the room view control bar, to make it more obvious how to go back to the home view. You can still go fullscreen from to the home view or swipe up on the control bar.
- More robust model updates, especially when the app becomes active from the background.
- The switch between devices and scenes button in the room view now shows a progress icon when a background update is in progress. It's still possible to switch between devices and scenes while the progress icon is active. Disable the progress icon in settings to never show the progress icon.
- Tap/Click a light device now toggles it on and off instead of going to a custom view. To control brightness, color etc. long tap/long click the device to show the detailed information and control view for that device.
- Local backups work again. Local and cloud backups were both send to the cloud.
- Optimisations and small fixes.
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Information
- Seller
- Peter Vogels
- Size
- 43.9 MB
- Category
- Utilities
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 15.6 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 15.6 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 15.6 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 12.5 or later.
- Apple TV
- Requires tvOS 16.6 or later.
- Apple Watch
- Requires watchOS 8.7 or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 17+ Unrestricted Web Access
- Copyright
- © Peter Vogels
- Price
- Free