In response to how damn slow the App is to load – to the point that it’s useless as a remote (especially with all the clicks you have to make…):
it would be nice if a second app “Smartthing Remote” was created, which would be SIMPLE/not have all the options and things in it and only have the things you enable/want quick access to (similar to a dashboard, but the real-deal app from ST…).
Add buttons and they would all appear on the homepage of this app (you can create folders if you want), but only for important things, and no bloat where.
So I can click it, and hope for it to quickly load and just show my important light on/off switches and TV control.
Instead of loading the entire ST app/having to scroll through the entire app, make something much more simple and easy to load so that people would actually be able to use their damn phones to control their ST! (after all…isn’t that what you guys are after?)…
You seem to WANT people to use their phones to control things (as you haven’t actually release many physical remotes – besides your FOUR BUTTON aeon remote…) or simple ZWAVE stick on to your wall “remote” with physical buttons to use to control things…you guys appear to be all about the APP which everybody agrees just can’t be used as an actual remote control unless you want to wait a minute for it to load/you to scroll to the proper page.
Oh, and obviously the current state of things needs to be fixed, as it’s soo unreliable – I find myself having to double tap (“turn off” then “turn on”) so many things because ST things they’re on but not on (regardless of the reason…quick polling, etc. should be able to keep track of CURRENT states…).
We all are hoping for sooo many improvements to make us happy in V2 (as it appears that working on V1 has just stopped more or less, and things haven’t changed and are so unreliable), so lets hope you guys have actually been putting a lot of work, and working on all the problems people have been bringing up, on V2 – since we haven’t seen much of anything changing (although being promised things…) for a long time.
Oh…and the addition of a lot more (and cheap) PHYSICAL control devices (like remotes/a ST in-wall or wall mounted easy control panel/sticky (battery powered and not requiring actual power from old switches, or even ones requiring power, “switches” that you can just stick to your wall next to actual switches with multiple actual buttons on them allowing control of anything (sending signal to the HUB and then allowing us to chose one, or many actions to occur on button press) similar to the GE one that is available but only will work as a slave/doesn’t send any commands to the HUB, etc etc etc.
While you guys may have thought the “using your phone as a full remote” and not creating actual buttons to control things was a good idea before, it’s really not. At the least add the abilites and people that wish to take their phone out to do everything can do so…and those who want to just tap a button on their wall and have lights/scenes/anything happen with the ease of tapping a button on their wall, just like flipping a switch, can use it!
People are making nice dashboard and such, but an actual ST “dashboard” wall-mountable device that is developed by ST and looks good/controls things well and implements all the features that users want (hell, create a thread and you will get a million response of what people want) would be great! Allowing an “alarm like” system to be implemented in people homes! A simple “keypad” to be used (indoor/outdoor would be nice) to allow arming/deactivating alarms, or doing anything really based on the code (open garage, unlock a door, etc.) would also be great.