Devices is an intuitive, easy to use app for HomeKit compatible products.
Slowly, but surely, we have been changing devices in home over to ones that are automated with the help of our iOS devices. Apple HomeKit makes using the devices – such as Philips Hue bulbs, Ecobee thermostat, and iDevices switch – easy. When you set up a device, it remains set-up and readable by many different apps that work with HomeKit. One such app is Devices by LinkDesk GmbH & Co.
Devices is an Apple HomeKit app that allows you to control your home’s smart devices without any hassle. It features an icon-based interface that gives you quick, at-a-glance access to smart devices thus making the process efficient and effortless. With other home automation apps – even ones geared towards simplicity – it can easily become overcomplicated with the more devices you add in. Devices is designed to help reduce that problem. It is a full-service HomeKit app, which that it’s not just a way to control your devices. You can also program them from this app, as well.
Devices is a very easy app to work with. When you start it up, you are met with a dashboard of sorts. Here, you can set your personal preferences and start using the app with devices that have been already set up with HomeKit. When I first opened up the app, I found all of our Hue lights were already appearing and I could control them with the use of the app. Because I am not the ‘owner’ of HomeKit in our house, I could not make any changes to the actual programming of the HomeKit devices, but I can control them. This is typical of any HomeKit application and not limited to Devices.
Devices lives up to its ‘icon’ management system feature and does make it easier to navigate through devices in use. One thing I didn’t particularly care for was having to tap on an icon to do anything with it. I would love it if you could simply tap on the icon in the dashboard to turn smart objects off and on. For example, most of our automated items are Philips Hue bulbs. A simple tap to turn them off and on like a wall switch, would be wonderful, but instead, you have to tap on the icon, which opens up a menu of sorts, and then you can control it. It just seems like an extra step to me. I do like the gear-like control system that is set-up. Visually, it’s very easy to see where how you are dimming lights.
Devices is very intuitive and while there are a few areas that I feel like could make it even more simplified, but for the most part, it’s a really nice app.
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