What app is the one to have for an in-wall iPad in the hallway, dedicated to smarthome control?
I have tried iControlCube which is a really good looking app for iPad, but it feels somewhat buggy, and lacks some options from UI7, for example the easy Home, Away, Vacation, Night thing. I have switches in all rooms, so it is mostly for “overall” control.
The Vera Mobile UI7 app seems to be for iPhone only (I know it says iPad in the description, but it shows up as a supersized iPhone app.
Both looks and functionality counts. When properly setup it has to be user friendly, so that wife and kids can use it.
I have been using Homewave for a few years and really like it. The developer is very responsive and you can make it look pretty much anyway you want. There are quite a few screen shots of what others have done with interface in the Homewave section of this forum.
Homewave for Apple devices Imperihome for Android.
Imperihome for Apple is out but its too new and lacks many features at this time that is on the Android platform.
I too vote for Andriod tablet over a Ipad. Also depending on which android tablet you get wireless charging is a nice option. With the speed of changing tablets I have decided to wall mount externally vs. recessed.
I have a Home Media Systems “In-wall ipad mini mount” super great $28.00 mount.
Very hard the remove the ipad after everything is mounted, but still super great…
Does anyone have a wall mount to recommend ??
The “Simplidock” from iwalldock looks great, allows simple removal, but the PRICE $199.00 each
I like the UI design of imperihome but it lacks features that are on the android version like text to speech. It is much more responsive than the vera app. I use it on my iphone and ipad but have a cheap ($60) android tablet mounted to the wall running Imperihome with tasker swithcing between a full frame clock and imperihome when the camera detects motion.
I’m planning to use one of my old iPad 2s and I think it will do just fine for a wall mounted tablet. I have been searching for a decent mount for a couple of years without finding anything interesting, so I did a decent mockup last night. Most options I have seen online is ON-wall mounting, not IN-wall. There have been a couple of IN-wall mounts, but they are quite expensive, typically $2-400. However I found the mount Miamijerry are referring to, and it looks excellent! Exactly what I have been looking for, and SO typical to find it just hours after building one myself! Too bad it comes at just above $40 USD including intl shipping, which causes a lot of customs fee and 25% VAT for me. As for power my plan is to put a high quality in-wall USB charger inside the wall and have it permanently plugged in and on. No visible cables and no plugged in adapters.
How do you use Home, away, night and vacation modes from UI7 in HomeWave? Or other apps? I have Homewave, but I never got to the point where I started configuring it. Time consuming etc. Control Cube have the looks, but also lacking the modes from UI7…
/* Read only if you care about my choice of tablet
As some pointed out I know I could go Android, but I have had cheap Android tablets before, and it was a really bad experience. I have no intentions of starting a flame war and I don’t care if the company is named Apple or Sony or whatever, but in my opinion the great thing about iPads are that since Apple have full control over all hardware they have the possibility to prevent a lot of bugs that gives Android a bad name. They are better on backwards compatibility as well. Android cannot take all thousands of different tablets into consideration for every upgrade. I am sure the high end tablets are better, but then again I could just as well use an iPad, which also makes it easier for my family to use it, since we have a bunch of iPads and iPhones already. The strange thing about it all is that I was coming from preferring to use a bash prompt in Linux to being forced to use an iPhone 3GS at work several years ago. Hating the “not so open” thing, but only until I realized it didn’t prevent me from anything important. Since then I have been using Apple products, and when I got a Android tablet and apps were crashing and some didn’t work due to resolution incompatibilities and even just a few months later the OS were out of date with no options to upgrade, I got confirmations that Apple fit me quite well… */
PS: If there is far better Vera apps for Android I would easily have another try at Android on a device like this, dedicated to one task.
You can get a free version of imperihome on Ios and try it before you buy it. The Ios version is missing TTS and the ability to ad web pages which I use to have weather forecast in one page and to view a few ip cams (old iphones running ipcam app that i don’t have them integrated with vera)
as far as a mount I just cut down an old wood photo frame to fit the tablet. To me it looks nice. If I could get an app like tasker on Ios I would ditch the andriod platform. ($60 tablet is a piece of junk but kind of works).