Hi all,
I'm fairly new to the home automation game, but I have a few items dotted around the house now.
Currently I have:
I plan on adding many more items and don't want to limit myself to 1 particular brand or technology.
What I am starting to realise is that I am forever in and out of different iphone apps to control them all. What I need is "a home hub" or a software equivalent that allows me to control everything from 1 app or web page. The problem so far is that I have struggled to find anything that is reasonably up to date and available in the UK.
I found the smartthings hub would do everything I need it to do and has lots of future scalability for different technologies, but it's not available in the UK yet. Does anyone know of a similar device or a software equivalent that would help me?
I did look at the openhab software and started playing around with it, but firstly it seems a little overcomplicated and secondly the iphone app seems to be pre-ios8 which will look terible on an iphone 6+.
I may be asking for the moon on a stick here, but I'm sure there must be something available...
Any suggestions are welcome!
Thanks
Chris
I'm fairly new to the home automation game, but I have a few items dotted around the house now.
Currently I have:
- Sonos equipment
- XBMC (running on a pi with a synology nas for media storage)
- Multiple Belkin Wemo switches
- Belkin motion detector
I plan on adding many more items and don't want to limit myself to 1 particular brand or technology.
What I am starting to realise is that I am forever in and out of different iphone apps to control them all. What I need is "a home hub" or a software equivalent that allows me to control everything from 1 app or web page. The problem so far is that I have struggled to find anything that is reasonably up to date and available in the UK.
I found the smartthings hub would do everything I need it to do and has lots of future scalability for different technologies, but it's not available in the UK yet. Does anyone know of a similar device or a software equivalent that would help me?
I did look at the openhab software and started playing around with it, but firstly it seems a little overcomplicated and secondly the iphone app seems to be pre-ios8 which will look terible on an iphone 6+.
I may be asking for the moon on a stick here, but I'm sure there must be something available...
Any suggestions are welcome!
Thanks
Chris
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