HomeLights for HomeKit - Press Kit
Welcome to the official press kit for the HomeLights for HomeKit iOS app, the ultimate remote for HomeKit-compatible lighting. Dive into the features, benefits, and unique selling points that set HomeLights apart.
About HomeLights for HomeKit
At the heart of HomeLights for HomeKit is an unyielding commitment to time-saving and efficiency. We understand that smart lighting, while advanced, can often require repetitive adjustments, costing users precious moments and bringing frustration. HomeLights has been meticulously crafted to alleviate this, offering a streamlined user interface explicitly tailored for lighting adjustments. Our intuitive UI ensures you achieve the perfect ambiance without wading through complex menus or settings. But we didn't stop there. With our groundbreaking Room Detection feature, users can instantly access controls for their current location, making lighting adjustments swifter than ever. Coupled with the introduction of interactive HomeScreen and LockScreen widgets in iOS 17, users now enjoy on-the-spot lighting adjustments of their current room right from the widgets, adding another layer of convenience and immediacy to the HomeLights experience. Dive into HomeLights, where simplicity meets sophistication in smart lighting control.
Quick Highlights:
- Unified Brightness & Color Control: Control all bulbs in a room with ease.
- Smart Room Detection: Automatically open the app on the room you're currently in.
- Interactive HomeScreen & LockScreen Widgets: Immediate access to your room’s lighting controls, allowing for on-the-spot adjustments without even opening the app.
- Apple Watch Companion App: Control your lights directly from your wrist!
- Apple Shortcuts Actions: Incorporate HomeLights actions into your lighting automations, especially our unique "Get current room" action for tailored routines.
Why Choose HomeLights?
A deep dive into the features that set HomeLights apart from the rest:
- Unified Control System: HomeLights doesn’t just manage individual lights. It gives you the ability to adjust brightness, color, and temperature of every bulb in a room at once. People often want to either increase or decrease light in the whole room, which can be done with a single tap in HomeLights.
- Smart Room Detection: Say goodbye to manual room selection. Using Bluetooth, HomeLights pinpoints your location and brings up the remote for that specific room.
- Smart Control Widgets: With iOS 17's introduction, our HomeScreen and LockScreen widgets are now both insightful and interactive. Leveraging the Room Detection feature, they display the current room's lighting status. Users can directly adjust brightness, toggle lights on/off, right from these widgets without the need to launch the app.
- Apple Watch Companion App: Experience light adjustments right from your wrist. Perfect for when your phone isn’t within reach. Use taps or digital crown to adjust the mean brightness of the room.
- Apple Shortcuts Actions: Build powerful shortcuts using HomeLights actions. We've added a unique "Get current room" action, which could help to build location-aware shortcuts. Taking advantage of this action, we built a Shortcut “AirPlay to nearest speaker” which is available for download as an example in the settings of the app.
- Efficient & Intuitive: The app’s gestures and design specifically cater to the nuances of lighting controls, offering more efficiency than standard methods.
- Reliability & Retries: HomeLights does its best to work around network issues. It will auto retry requests upon failure, display loading/error indicators, and strives to always reflect the real current state of devices. This provides a more seamless experience than the stock Home app.
Comparing with Existing Solutions:
Vs. Home App:
- Offers whole room control.
- Detects and opens control panel for the current room automatically.
- Intuitive gestures tailored for lighting.
- Automated retries for failed requests.
Vs. Siri:
- More consistent without the need for repeated voice commands.
- Precise control with visual feedback.
Download & Pricing:
Start with the base version of HomeLights for control over two of your favorite rooms. Upgrade to the Premium version for limitless room control, exclusive Room Detection, and Apple Watch connectivity.
Available Now on the App Store: Download here.
Visuals & Screenshots:
Get several visuals and screenshots of the app to use in your articles: Download them here. If you need any specific image, please feel free to ask.
Press Contacts:
For media inquiries and promo codes, please contact:
Anthonin
Email: homelights@anthopak.dev
Twitter: Twitter HomeLights - Twitter AnthoPak
