The Switchmate app allows you to interact with Switchmate Products. Switchmate is a device that you can snap onto existing light/wall switches, making them smartphone enabled in seconds! Our app allows you to easily setup, configure & connect to your Switchmate devices including turning on/off, setting preferences like timers and Welcome Home, and more!
Features:
- Control your existing light switches
- Timers: automatically turn your lights on and off at preset times
- Welcome Home: automatically turn on switches of your choosing when you get home
- Updates: get over the air firmware updates for your Switchmate device(s) to make sure you have the latest/greatest (first firmware update is coming SOON!)
- *New* Voice Control: Use the mic icon in the app to control your lights with your voice, see below for more details!
We are constantly improving and adding new features and would love to hear your feedback, were listening!
Feedback/Suggestions? [email protected]
Some of the Features were working on:
- Our first Firmware Update: Major improvements across the board for your Switchmates!
- Google Home & Alexa Direct Compatibility (no more requiring our partners hubs for this!)
- Widgets: Quick access to Voice Commands without opening the app!
- Grouping: Create & control groups of devices together.
- Timeout: Automatically turn off a switch after X amount of time!
- iWatch Support: Because who doesnt want to use their watch to do all this?
- API & Tasker/IFTTT Plugins: Per your requests, were still in the early planning stages on this one but were working on it!
- New Products are coming soon! SWMbright, SWMpower (power socket controls), Zip (add-on to control all Switchmate devices when you are away from home AND over WiFi when you are home!), + more!
Voice Control Feature:
You can click the Microphone icon in the app and simply say your command - voice activation tries to first match by the switch name that shows in your list of devices (and you can change under Device Settings), but if it cant find that it will try to match to the location you selected when you first setup your Switchmate(s). And you can even use "all" to control all switches within range! Here are some examples:
"Turn Kennys Room light off"
"Turn on my living room lights"
"Turn all my lights off"
"Bedroom on"
We covered a good amount of variation in voice commands but if you find one that doesnt work definitely let us know and well see what we can do to get it added in!
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Requirements:
- Switchmate Device(s) of course!
- iOS 8+ is required so we can use Bluetooth Low Energy in order to save a lot of battery!
Switchmate devices are currently only sold in the US and Canada, but were working on international releases already and hope to be launching in various international markets during 2017!
Note: This application asks for use of background services for the "Welcome Home" feature.