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 1.9.9
1.9.9
- Updates to the 4 room status items (lights, thermostats, doors and windows)
- These have been expanded to 6 items, with default assignments to climate and occupancy.
- Each item can now be individually turned on or off for each room. (When using more the 4 status items, it’s recommend to use a rectangle items view layout, rather then square items.)
- The icon of each status item can be customized.
- You now have full control over the characteristics assigned to each status item. For example, you can change the icon to a security shield and select the characteristics that trigger an alarm, or use a battery icon to display when battery power is low.
- Time and date now feature a flip animation for a smoother visual experience.
- Fixed an issue on watchOS 11 where the back button did not work in the camera view.
- Resolved a layout issue on watchOS 11 affecting both the camera view and information detail views.
- Swipe down on the information detail view tab bar to enter fullscreen mode. Swipe up while in fullscreen to exit. You can also swipe up on the main view tab bar to toggle fullscreen, and swipe down to return.
- Resolved issue with the Awair history graphs not displaying correctly due to changes in their API.
- Enhancements and fixes.
Ratings and Reviews
Nice idea, but clunky
Like the idea of pulling weather an calenda data together, but this feels like a 0.5 verrsion
- Interface is unintuitive, not obvious how to switch between different views
- woudl be much higher value if it could track Hoemkit accessory historical data alongside the rest eg show thermostat data and weather together
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Information
- Provider
- Peter Vogels
- Size
- 46 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