Originally posted by G4RHL
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For large changes pressing and holding next to the temperature then swiping up and down is the only feasible way to get there quickly.
Terrible UI design - both methods of adjustment are completely opaque and non-intuitive to a first time user. At least the old version of the app had the familiar OS standard number scroller element. (whatever they're called)
Personally I'd like to see a completely reworked UI for settings temperatures, the current one is extremely clumsy to the point where I feel like I'm fighting against the app to get the job done, especially when you take into consideration random "zone change failed" email alerts for actions the app claimed had worked...
I'd quite like to see a sidebar of "favourite" temperatures that can be defined in preferences and then used with a single tap, as there are only a few temperatures that I generally use, such as 5,16,18,20,21, which are the only ones I tend to use on a regular basis.
The same could be said for the UI on the controller itself - having to tap the down button 32 times (or hold it for a long, long time) to reduce the living room temperature from 21 degrees to 5 degrees when we go to bed (but without disturbing any other zone schedules) is rather cumbersome when tapping the temperature could easily have brought up an overlay screen with a much larger set of up down arrows (which aren't obscured by your fingers as the current ones are) and a sidebar with a list of single tap "favourite" temperatures.
Because its so cumbersome to turn the temperature of the zone down to 5 via the controller, I typically just reach for the HR92 and turn the dial instead! (Or perhaps use the phone app, where it's non intuitive temperature adjustment interface is at least once learnt, faster)
I can think of so many improvements to the UI for both the controller and the app that I have to wonder if the UI designers actually use an Evohome in their own house. Don't get me wrong - the functionality of the system is fantastic and many aspects of the UI are clean well designed, (more so the controller than the app) but the clumsiness of performing some basic actions does irk me. (I have to "cancel" off mode in the phone app before I can apply day off mode as a second step ? Why ? etc...)
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