Savant 4+

Functional with Unlocked Potentional

The app is functional and invaluable for controlling various aspects of my home locally and remotely. Things like pool and home temperature, alarm system, lights, shades, and viewing security cameras. There are quirks. For example there are many times when I launch the app and there are no controls available at all. It will just say “Home”. I’ll have to force quit the app and re-launch to fix it—sometimes more than once. Also, there’s a ton of unrealized potential here. I’m a big user of Scenes and if those were made available to the Apple Shortcuts app Scenes could be triggered by an almost infinite number of things like location, text messages, movement, etc. Right now Scenes can only be triggered by the Savant app itself using times of day. Also, there’s immense potential of home monitoring convenience in iOS 14 if Savant adopted Apple’s new widget architecture. Would love to see these features soon.

Refined and fast

It took me over 2 years to choose between Control 4, Crestron Home & Savant. I had a strong preference to the Savant user interface over the others, but I read reviews that scared me. After tons of research and now living with it for 3 months, I can say this is an incredibly functional and reliable system and is very sleek. Load times are milliseconds. One feature I wish they would enable is after I select a scene, say “watch movie” would be jumping to the device control page. I still have to navigate through all the button presses to start the movie. It kind of nullifies the scene command. Yes it dims the lights and closes the shades, but that’s just two buttons away in the device controls.
There’s also only time based scene control. It sure would be nice to have weather or system feedback conditions. I.e. if I’m watching TV outside and it’s past sunset, set patio lights to x%. If the weather drops below 60 degrees, turn on the patio heaters etc. Your only option now is to set those lights on at sunset by day of week, whether you’re outside or not. Just a bit more intelligence would be icing on the cake.

Developer Response ,

Hi smitty8000 - Thanks so much for taking the time to share your experience with us! We are thrilled to hear you are happy with your Savant System. Your feedback regarding additional features you'd like to see in the future will be shared with our product team for consideration. We are always looking at ways to enhance our smart home experience, and appreciate you sharing your ideas. -Savant Support

Functionality

Also, the bill of goods with the system, all I want to be able to do is use my television sets. I bought two art televisions a use in my house, and I am not able to use them because of savant. Maneuvering between Cox and Apple is beyond difficult, as there are so many different streaming channels some operate on Apple some operate on normal Cox cable TV. The system is undependable and I need the help of our admin person weekly to do simple tasks that should be able to be done by the end-user. Not happy at all with the system plan on tossing it starting over with something new this is expensive and dependable and reliable need I say more. Please publish this wherever I plan on it.

Developer Response ,

Hello - we are sorry to hear that your experience with your Savant system has been anything less than satisfactory. Please consider contacting us directly at support@savant.com to discuss your feedback further. -Savant Support