iDevices Connected

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App developers seem to pay attention to reviewer comments, so I’ll be specific. The design of this app is built around the assumption that there will be only one thermostat. But I have three iDevice thermostats because I have baseboard hot water heat with three zones. When navigating around the screens, the user can lose track of which thermostat they are viewing, because the title of the selected thermostat does not show at the top of the screen. Also, when the user is viewing a particular thermostat, and they press “schedules” at the bottom, ALL schedules for ALL thermostats are displayed. This confused me because I was expecting to see only the schedules for the thermostat I was working with. I thought the schedule entries were duplicates, so I started deleting some. That caused a mess because I was actually deleting valid entries for other thermostats. I suggest the developers set up a test home with multiple thermostats and beta test it again.

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App works generally very good, but when daylight savings time rolls around the schedules don’t update automatically. Not only that, but the app adds an event one hour before every event you have scheduled, so if you have an even scheduled to start at 7:30AM, the app mysteriously adds an identical event 1 hour before at 6:30AM. I deleted all of the events, added them back and it’s doing the same thing. Very frustrating. You would think the developers would be able to get a handle on such a simple thing as a time change.

I believe I have a similar issue as rws1812, except I want to mention that the issue isn’t only apparent with multiple thermostats. The iDevices home screen and the Apple Home app both use a multi level approach for users to identify the device they want to control. The iDevices app “forgets” this on all menus except the home screen. If I am looking at energy usage, or a scene, I would like to know if a device I named “Lamp”, for example, is in the upstairs bedroom, or the office! My point is, the app should always show the Room, then the device name. Not everyone wants to take a descriptive photo to identify each device. Even if they did, the icons in many lists are so small, it may not help much. I suggest every list of devices show Room, then Name to help solve this problem.

I bought 17 of the dimmer switches for my home, and they work amazingly well. They are great with Homekit, and I really like the new home page on the idevices app. I wish Siri was smarter about knowing not to turn off the night lights, but I put all the night lights on a scene so turning them all back on is super easy. I had a bunk router that kept rebooting, and all the switches kept reconnecting automatically with no issues. Great! My only complaint is the physical size of the switches. In a standard size 3 or 4 gang box there is not enough space for these. I hope the next versions will be smaller inside the box. I love the app, especially the remote access. And the new ability to update all the firmware of all the devices at the same time is EPIC.

I’ve been using this app with my wall switches and instant switch for about a year and a half. I use it in conjunction with HomeKit, and set up all my automations and scenes through HomeKit. Haven’t had any connectivity issues despite the many power outages and over 20 devices connected to my WiFi. (I use Google’s mesh routers). I did recently pick up the iDevices thermostat and so far it has also performed well for my needs. However, I do wish that iDevices would include that in the energy use tab. I understand that the thermostat doesn’t know the exact power draw of my HVAC system, but it could approximate based on the size of my system or letting me input the voltage and amps of the compressor, fan, and heating element.