Universal HomeWatch: A new free HomeKit Controller & Dashboard app on the App Store

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Last year I made an app for my Apple Watch to see a glanceable status of our home and to control our HomeKit devices. It worked so well on the watch, that I expanded it to a dashboard app for all our Apple devices.

I have now added a configuration interface to make it compatible with any HomeKit enabled home setup. I hope some of you will find it useful.

The circle or grid with icons on the home view shows a color coded status of the rooms of the home.
When a room is selected, the circle or grid with icons will show the scenes and devices you can control in that room.
The app can also show the time, date, cameras, events, reminders, a website, weather information and any characteristics from your home devices.
The app also supports customisable widgets, tap / click a grid widget item to go directly to a room view, execute a scene or launch any url-scheme.

On the mac you can also add characteristics to the menu bar.

The interface can be fully customized. The user can add their own background images and icons from the photo library and customize icons, fonts, colors and more. Make it your own…

HomeWatch Website

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Updated to iOS 1.1 and macOS 1.1

What is new:

• Support for imperial units.
• Support for user customisable complications that can go directly to a room view or immediately execute a scene.
• Themes now support customisable gradient and shadow effects for icons and text. Scene- and complication icons can render as original full color images instead of just template images.
• Room temperature, humidity and co2 level history charts can now be updated from a json file on a server that’s updated through automation shortcuts from HomeKit.

HomeWatch Website

Get HomeWatch on the App Store

 

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Updated to iOS 1.5 and macOS 1.5

What is new:

• Fully customisable lock-screen and home-screen widgets. Tap / Clicking a widget item to go directly to a room view, execute a scene or launch any url-scheme.
• New default theme. Theme's now support gradient overlays. More enhancements to the theme builder user-interface.
• Added the new iOS 16 SF Symbols, which include a lot of new home related icons.

HomeWatch Website

Get HomeWatch on the App Store

New theme and widgets:

Updated theme builder:

 

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Updated to version 1.6 IOS and Mac

What is new :

• Grid style view layouts.
  • Choose between several grid layouts from 1 to 6 columns.
  • Choose between square and wide grid items.
  • Each room can have its own grid layout.
  • Similar to other icons in the user-interface, all grid icons can be full customised.
• Support devices views and control.
  • In the settings for each room choose which devices are shown and customise the icons shown for each device.
  • Tap / Click an icon on the devices grid to control a light, a thermostat or toggle the power state of a device.
  • Long-press a device icon to show the detail view with all the information and controls for that device.
• Multiple homes support.
• Calendar now works on the Mac. (p.s. The menubar view does not yet support editing of events and reminders.)

 

[Lowesinstaller]

I tried to send a message via your website. Will this software work on a Mac with the screen in Portrait mode?

 

[pbird]

I tried to send a message via your website. Will this software work on a Mac with the screen in Portrait mode?

Sorry I did not receive your message.

It should work. The app will resize itself to any window size. Because the aspect ratio in portrait mode is similar to the iPhone. My guess is that when you fill the screen, it will show the layout with the time on top, then the information section and then the list.

 

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Updated to version 1.7

What is new:

• Added a tvOS version of the app that supports everything from the iOS version except the calendar view.
• Widgets can now have grid layouts. A grid widget can have any number of items. The items in a grid widget will automatically resize to fit the widget. Tap / Click a grid widget item to go directly to a room view, execute a scene or launch any url-scheme. For example use "shortcuts://run-shortcut?name=your_shortcut_name" to launch a shortcut from the widget.
• Choose a custom accent color for the user-interface.
• Choose a custom app icon.
• Option to show the devices list first in a room view instead of the scene list.
• Fixed syncing of custom complications to the Apple Watch.

tvOS Version:

Widgets:

 

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Updated to version 1.8

What is new:

• Sync backups between devices. Backup a home setup including all user made customisations. Restore the backup on another device. For example, create a home setup backup on your iPad and then restore it on your Apple TV.
• Automatic sync of user added custom icon images between devices.
• Automatic cloud backup of current home setup.
• Information detail view can now be toggled fullscreen.
• Time view size, for layouts with time on top, can now be adjusted.
• Several fixes en user-interface enhancements.