Remote Droid 5: Home Automation

Here there are almost as many systems as devices, it seems. Apps inteded for a single system only are sorted into that system's section. At the end of the page, you also find a larger section with apps covering multiple systems, so don't overlook that one!

C-Bus

2019-06-18

C-Bus is a cable-bound system used in Australia, New Zealand, Asia, the Middle East, Russia, USA, South Africa, the UK and other parts of Europe including Greece and Romania.

My CBUS (3.7@3) Ǥ 6 LastUpdate: 2016-03-19

Control4

2019-06-18

Control4 is Salt Lake County, Utah, manufacturer of home theater and automation controllers.

Composer Express (4.4@112) 6 for dealers
Control4® MyHome (4.1@986) Ǥ 10 LastUpdate: 2016-04-21 Intro 2/2012
Control4 for OS 2 (3.9@791) Ǥ 18

Crestron

2019-06-18

Crestron Electronics is a company that manufactures systems for home automation and audio/video control. Read more on Wikipedia.

Crestron Zūm (5@2) Ǥ 9
Crestron Mobile (4.2@279) 5 $Contains no known trackers \o/$ LastUpdate: 2012-10-29 / Crestron Mobile Pro (4@60; ~EUR 77.50) Ǥ 7 $Contains no known trackers \o/$ LastUpdate: 2013-07-18
Crestron App (3.8@213) Ǥ 16 $Contains no known trackers \o/$
Crestron Pyng for Android (3.8@12) Ǥ 11

Domotics / X10

2019-06-18

Home automation products based on the X10 industry standard. For most Americans, the terms Domotics and "Home automation" are synonyms (even the Domotics Wikipedia page redirects correspondingly). Think the term Domotics as a crossing of "domus" (Latin for "house") and "robotics".

Domodroid Beta 1.4 (4.7@6) 8 $Contains no known trackers \o/$
Active Home Vista (4.4@225) 4 $Contains no known trackers \o/$ LastUpdate: 2015-11-29 X10 CM10A, CM11A, CM17A & CP10 via Home Vista server
Domoticz Home Automation Lite (4.3@2,429) Ǥ 24 / Domoticz - Home Automation (4.4@1,863; ~EUR 7.00) Ǥ 21 Github
Lutron Home+ (4.1@163) Ǥ 10 LastUpdate: 2017-10-04 / Lutron Home Control+ (3.7@103) Ǥ 10 LastUpdate: 2017-10-04 requires a Lutron total home control system
X10 Commander (3.9@104; ~EUR 3.75) Ǥ 6 LastUpdate: 2013-04-07
X10 WiFi (3.7@39) 17 $Contains no known trackers \o/$
Home Automation Controller (3.6@28) 4 $Contains no known trackers \o/$ UPB, Zwave, X10, Insteon, ESI drapery Controllers, …
OpenRemote (3.4@212) 3 $Contains no known trackers \o/$ LastUpdate: 2015-08-03
X10 Controller (2.9@48) 2 $Contains no known trackers \o/$ LastUpdate: 2012-12-26
MobiLinc Lite (2.4@64) 6 LastUpdate: 2015-10-01 / MobiLinc Pro (3.7@277; ~EUR 20.00) Ǥ 7 LastUpdate: 2015-10-01

HAI / Leviton

2019-06-18

Products of the company Home Automation, Inc.. HAI was acquired by Leviton in 2012.

Provolt Room Controller (5@5) 6 $Contains no known trackers \o/$ LastUpdate: 2017-04-24
Hi-Fi2 Pro (5@2; ~EUR 8.50) Ǥ 8 $Contains no known trackers \o/$
NQLink Pro - OmniPro II, Omni IIe, Omni Lte (4.7@34; ~EUR 25.00) 12 / NQLink Lite - OmniPro II, Omni IIe, Omni Lte (5@8; ~EUR 36.00) 11
BitWise Touch (3.9@77) 8 $Contains no known trackers \o/$
LuminaRF SA (3.4@5) 12 $Contains no known trackers \o/$
SnapLink (2.9@225; ~EUR 20.00) 3 $Contains no known trackers \o/$ LastUpdate: 2017-05-03
My Leviton (2.8@340) 11

HomeMatic (ELV/Conrad)

2019-06-18

The German equivalent to Domotics, even in the term. Most products come from a company named Eq-3 AG.

CasaTest (4.5@16) 7 $Contains no known trackers \o/$ LastUpdate: 2016-11-30 / CasaPro (4.4@32; ~EUR 4.00) Ǥ 8 $Contains no known trackers \o/$ LastUpdate: 2016-11-30 CasaControl(tm) Premium
TinyMatic - HomeMatic for your pocket! (4.4@1,039) Ǥ 9 / TinyMatic Unlocker (4.4@173; ~EUR 8.00) 0 $Contains no known trackers \o/$ LastUpdate: 2017-10-14
HomeKey (4.4@148) Ǥ 12
Home24 MediaPlayer (4.2@33) 13 $Contains no known trackers \o/$ Tasker-Support
Home24 (4.1@329) 8 $Contains no known trackers \o/$ / Home24-Tablet (4.2@100) 8 $Contains no known trackers \o/$
iWindow (4@7) 2 $Contains no known trackers \o/$ LastUpdate: 2017-08-18
Homematic IP (3.6@859) Ǥ 7
EASY App (3.2@98) Ǥ 13
HistClient (2.7@7) Ǥ 7
HomeControl DEMO (0@0) 6 $Contains no known trackers \o/$ / HomeControl (0@0; ~EUR 8.00) 6 $Contains no known trackers \o/$

Honeywell

2019-06-18

Home automation products produced by Honeywell International, Inc. (no remotes for their cluster-bombs).

Total Connect Comfort (4.5@54,393) 9
ULINK 2.0 (4.1@12) Ǥ 18 LastUpdate: 2016-03-22
NorthStar Connect (3.8@223) Ǥ 17
MB - Remote Control (3.4@24) 3 $Contains no known trackers \o/$ LastUpdate: 2013-04-30 / MB - Remote Control V2 (2.9@47) 2 $Contains no known trackers \o/$ LastUpdate: 2017-10-18
Total Connect (3.2@278) 3 $Contains no known trackers \o/$ LastUpdate: 2015-11-17 / Total Connect 2.0 (3.7@4,088) Ǥ 18

KNX/EIB

2019-06-18

Apps for products supporting the KNX standard, formerly known by the names of EIB (Instabus), BatiBus and EHS.

knXpresso (4.9@54) Ǥ 14
KNX SmartHome (4.8@5) Ǥ 8 LastUpdate: 2017-05-05
theServa (4.7@17) 4
KNX: EcoButler KNX Server (4.7@15) Ǥ 10 requires server component
Basic KNX (4.6@7) Ǥ 9
WOLi (4.4@20) Ǥ 15 $Contains no known trackers \o/$
Merten U.motion Control (4.4@5) 7 $Contains no known trackers \o/$ LastUpdate: 2015-12-16
ayControl KNX + IoT smarthome (4.3@148) Ǥ 13
BlueHome (4.3@91) 8 $Contains no known trackers \o/$ / BlueHome Unlocker (4.5@17; ~EUR 6.00) 0 $Contains no known trackers \o/$ LastUpdate: 2013-08-29 Promo Video 8/2013
EIB/KNX HMI-Master (4.3@40) 2 $Contains no known trackers \o/$ LastUpdate: 2013-11-10
iKNiX (4.3@23) 2 $Contains no known trackers \o/$ Video Demo 4/2013
IKON (4.2@37) 9 $Contains no known trackers \o/$ LastUpdate: 2016-05-06
DIVUS OPTIMA (4.2@27) 11 $Contains no known trackers \o/$
Feller KNX (4.1@21) 8
knx wizard (4@21) Ǥ 5 LastUpdate: 2016-12-29
domovea v1 (3.9@242) 6 $Contains no known trackers \o/$ / domovea - tablet (3.9@57) 6 $Contains no known trackers \o/$
Merten InSideControl (3.8@18) 10 $Contains no known trackers \o/$ / Merten InSideControl HD (4.4@10) 10 $Contains no known trackers \o/$
U.motion Control (3.6@21) 7 LastUpdate: 2015-12-16 / U.motion Communication (5@6) 8 $Contains no known trackers \o/$ LastUpdate: 2015-09-21
InSideControl (3.5@105) 10 $Contains no known trackers \o/$ / InSideControl HD (4.3@28) 10 $Contains no known trackers \o/$ LastUpdate: 2017-09-07
ThinKnx gen. 1 (3.5@41) 18 LastUpdate: 2016-06-08 Video Demo 10/2012
HAPPY HOME (3.4@56) 7 $Contains no known trackers \o/$
KNonX (0@0; ~EUR 2.00) Ǥ 6 $Contains no known trackers \o/$ LastUpdate: 2017-01-10

Somfy

2019-06-18

Somfy is member of the Enocean Allianz, where you also can find well-known companies as Peha, Eltako, and Siemens. Which not necessarily means all their products work together bi-directionally …

Xiomfy 4 (4.7@95) Ǥ 8
Somfy Protect (4.2@4,065) Ǥ 24
TaHoma by Somfy (3.9@3,071) Ǥ 15
Somfy Smart Home Konfigurator (3.9@21) Ǥ 8 LastUpdate: 2016-11-24 / Somfy Bibliothek CH (5@1) Ǥ 9 LastUpdate: 2016-12-13 Keine Fernbedienung, sondern ein Produktkatalog
HomeWizard (3.7@603) Ǥ 14 Somfy, Philips Hue, Cresta, IP cams & more; requires HomeWizard box
Somfy Keys (3.7@133) Ǥ 14
Somfy Smart Shades (3.3@13) Ǥ 14 LastUpdate: 2017-01-03
Connexoon Access (3.1@103) Ǥ 17 / Connected Thermostat (4.2@452) Ǥ 16 / Connexoon Window RTS (3.5@46) Ǥ 16
SOMFY ALARM (2.9@582) 6 LastUpdate: 2017-01-27

Zigbee

2019-06-18

The ZigBee Alliance was founded in 2002, and at the moment of this writing has more than 230 enterprises as members. For details, please see Wikipedia.

zHome Automation (4.3@12) Ǥ 17
abode (4.1@357) Ǥ 24 ZigBee + ZWave
Zipato (3.5@331) Ǥ 13 ZWave + ZigBee
ubisys Smart Home (3.5@8) Ǥ 10
Hui Light (2.3@6) 13 $Contains no known trackers \o/$ LastUpdate: 2017-08-28

ZWave

2019-06-18

About 200 well-known enterprises form the Z-Wave Alliance. Read more details on Wikipedia.

AutHomationHD (4.6@357) 10 LastUpdate: 2014-08-03 Video Demo 2/2012; MiCasaVerde; with Tasker-Integration
Horus Smart Control (4.5@37) Ǥ 16
RainShadow Vera NFC (4.4@7) 3 LastUpdate: 2014-09-05
Vera Alerts (4.3@155) Ǥ 8 Tasker-Integration; MiCasaVerde
abode (4.1@357) Ǥ 24 ZigBee + ZWave
AutoVera (4@158) Ǥ 8 LastUpdate: 2017-03-20 / AutoVera Unlock Key (4.3@35; ~EUR 3.00) Ǥ 5 LastUpdate: 2017-11-15 Video Demo 9/2013 | 9/2013; Tasker Plugin
Axial Control Free (3.9@158) Ǥ 10 / Axial Control Paid (4.4@47; ~EUR 3.75) Ǥ 10
Habitat Z-wave Client (3.6@9) Ǥ 8 Github
Zipato (3.5@331) Ǥ 13 ZWave + ZigBee

Other/Multiple Home Automation protocols

2019-06-18

SIRAL Home by SIRAL (5@9) 2 $Contains no known trackers \o/$
Conrox (5@3) Ǥ 11 KNX, Homematic, HTTP APIs
hsremote (5@3) Ǥ 17
ViToo (5@3) 2 $Contains no known trackers \o/$ LastUpdate: 2013-09-30 Opus/GreenNet (EnOcean)
WiOcean Bridge (5@2) 5 $Contains no known trackers \o/$ LastUpdate: 2016-05-05 EnOcean
HOME.suite (5@2; ~EUR 1.00) Ǥ 16 ELV: FS20, HomeMatic, FHT, Wetterstation; Eldat Easywave; Miele@home; Intertechno; …
Knockaut Titan (5@1) Ǥ 9 $Contains no known trackers \o/$ / KNOCKAUT Titan View (0@0) Ǥ 10 KNX, LCN, EnOcean, HomeMatic, Z-Wave, M-Bus, ModBus, Philips Hue, Sonos & more
Giove iCONTROL (4.9@10) Ǥ 12 $Contains no known trackers \o/$ KNX, Modbus, IP Cams, …
IPSView (4.8@39) Ǥ 9 for IPSymcon (Windows components required)
Home Automation Alarm Sender (4.8@6) 1 Github; OpenHAB
SUPLA (4.7@1,925) 6 $Contains no known trackers \o/$
CUBEVISION APP (Obsolete) (4.7@36) 4 $Contains no known trackers \o/$ LastUpdate: 2017-10-06 KNX, EnOcean
IGH (4.7@31) 6 $Contains no known trackers \o/$ / IGH Compact (4.4@40) Ǥ 10
HomeGenie Plus (4.7@29; ~EUR 2.75) 10 X10, Z-Wave, Philips Hue, Insteon, RFXCom, KNX, UPnP/DLNA and more
Homecontrol (4.7@26) 25 $Contains no known trackers \o/$ IP-Symcon
HMI-APP V5 (4.7@6) 6
Vivint Smart Home (4.6@53,964) Ǥ 26 subscription required
IP-Symcon Mobile (4.6@121) Ǥ 9 requires Windows components
XS1 Heimautomatisierung (4.6@62) Ǥ 18 LastUpdate: 2013-11-10 for EZcontrol ® XS1
MyOmBox - MyHome automation (4.6@33) 2 $Contains no known trackers \o/$ LastUpdate: 2017-11-20
EVE Remote Plus (4.6@14) Ǥ 12 $Contains no known trackers \o/$ KNX, Modbus, ZWave, …
openHAB (4.5@1,184) Ǥ 10 / openHAB Beta (4.8@92) Ǥ 11 Github; formerly HABDroid; Plattform-Vorstellung openHAB 8/2012; Video Demo 12/2013; HomeMatic and many others via openHAB
CasaTest (4.5@16) 7 $Contains no known trackers \o/$ LastUpdate: 2016-11-30 / CasaPro (4.4@32; ~EUR 4.00) Ǥ 8 $Contains no known trackers \o/$ LastUpdate: 2016-11-30 CasaControl(tm) Premium
AGFEO SmartHome (4.5@8) Ǥ 5 KNX/EIB, Homematic, EnOcean; secured connection without foreign cloud
Remotestick (4.4@639) Ǥ 8 $Contains no known trackers \o/$ LastUpdate: 2016-12-26 for TellStick¹. Tasker Support
PowerSwitch (4.4@248) Ǥ 14 $Contains no known trackers \o/$ Github; diverse Baumarkt-Funksteckdosen
OpenWebNet (4.4@58) Ǥ 3 Github
COSMOTE Smart Home (4.4@58) Ǥ 15 HomeMatic, ZigBee Pro, Dect ULE – Sonos, Philips Hue, Netatmo & more
AFRISOhome (4.4@11) Ǥ 10 EnOcean, Z-Wave, ZigBee, wireless M-Bus
XFINITY Home (4.3@36,059) Ǥ 9 bound to Comcast?
andFHEM (4.3@851) Ǥ 11 / andFHEM Premium (4.4@181; ~EUR 4.25) Ǥ 10 Github; Conrad FS20, EIB/KNX, EnOcean, receivers, Smart-TVs, ... Requires the free FHEM home automation server on your computer, Fritz!Box, RasPi, or wherever; note the version on F-Droid is outdated (better pick from another source).
homee (4.3@395) Ǥ 10 Z-Wave, ZigBee and EnOcean
Switch King (4.3@163) 3 $Contains no known trackers \o/$ LastUpdate: 2017-08-09 requires Switch King Server and Telldus Tellstick¹
Lifedomus (4.3@129) Ǥ 15 / Lifedomus Design Studio (4.4@25) Ǥ 13 KNX, ZigBee, EnOcean, Legrand MyHome, … requires a Lifedomus box; / KNX, Z-Wave, EnOcean, Sonos …
TPControl (for AMX) (4.3@98) Ǥ 23 $Contains no known trackers \o/$ Video Promo 5/2012
Talk to HOME (4.3@30; ~EUR 2.50) Ǥ 13 $Contains no known trackers \o/$ Philips HUE, Sonos, OpenHAB, REST/HTTP
everHome Smart Home (4.2@78) Ǥ 12 Intertechno, Homematic, everHome
i2 Control V2.2 (4.2@57) 19 LastUpdate: 2017-08-04 AMX, Clipsal, Crestron, Domintell, EPSNET, Helvar, KNX, Modbus, HDL-BUS Pro, MyHome, Sonos, iTunes, Squeezebox, XBMC, and more
WeBeHome Control (4.2@41) Ǥ 11 WeBeHome Z-Wave gateway HG2, LS-10/LS-30 security and alarm system, Telldus Live devices and IP cameras
MyVirtuoso Home (4.2@23) Ǥ 19
TelLIVE Remote Lite (4.1@293) 1 $Contains no known trackers \o/$ LastUpdate: 2016-02-19 / TelLIVE Remote (4@83; ~EUR 1.00) 4 LastUpdate: 2016-03-23 for TellStick¹
Lutron Home+ (4.1@163) Ǥ 10 LastUpdate: 2017-10-04 / Lutron Home Control+ (3.7@103) Ǥ 10 LastUpdate: 2017-10-04 requires a Lutron total home control system
SmartHome 2 by SMARTIF (4.1@19) 19 $Contains no known trackers \o/$ LastUpdate: 2017-07-01 Helios, Fermax, ZigBee, KNX, and more
Indra V3 Domotique (4.1@15) Ǥ 13 $Contains no known trackers \o/$ LastUpdate: 2016-04-16 Wiegand, EIB/KNX, X10, Oregon, X10, PLCbus
Eltako FVS Mobile (4.1@13) 2 $Contains no known trackers \o/$ LastUpdate: 2017-01-27
nomos (4@310) Ǥ 16 LastUpdate: 2014-04-28 Lutron, KNX, Z-Wave, X10, Crestron, AMX, Command Fusion, IRTrans, xPL; Denon, Loewe, Yamaha, Sony, LG, Samsung and many more
Tell My House - Tellstick (4@270) 3 LastUpdate: 2017-08-16 for TellStick¹
Futurehome (4@50) Ǥ 12 Z-Wave, Enocean and other
SmartLife V2 (4@4) Ǥ 14 Leviton Omni, Bitwise, RTI, Spotify, Apple Music and Pandora
HomePilot (3.9@668) Ǥ 8
Yeti - Smart Home Automation (3.9@435) Ǥ 17 Philips hue, Netatmo, Lifx, Belkin, Sonos
Gideon Smart Home (3.9@384) Ǥ 18 Belkin, Fibaro, Insteon, Nest, Netatmo, Philips, Sonos, Leviton …
DMX4ALL Remote (3.9@9) Ǥ 7 $Contains no known trackers \o/$
HABPanelViewer Kiosk utility for openHAB HABPanel (3.8@34) 9
Cobra - Home Automation System (3.8@9) Ǥ 10 LastUpdate: 2016-07-19 KNX, Modbus, DMX, Philips Hue, PLCBus, Sonos, Plugwise, IHC/Elko, RFXCOM, Homematic, Koubachi, Pulseaudio, Samsung TV, Bluetooth, One-Wire, Novelan, Asterisk …
ImperiHome – Smart Home & Smart City Management (3.7@1,709) Ǥ 21 Video Demo 1/2013; Vera / VeraLite (ZWave), ZiBase, Zipabox, Netatmo, eedomus, LightManager, IPX800 V3
HomeWizard (3.7@603) Ǥ 14 Somfy, Philips Hue, Cresta, IP cams & more; requires HomeWizard box
pilight (3.7@56) 3 $Contains no known trackers \o/$ LastUpdate: 2015-05-10
Crownstone (3.7@6) Ǥ 13 $Contains no known trackers \o/$ Github
Home Remote (3.6@401) 7 Crestron, Denon, Fibaro, Honeywell, Insteon, Lutron, Marantz, Nest, Netatmo, Yamaha …
iViewer 4 (3.6@119) 18 Crestron, AMX, Control4, GlobalCache, and more
Home Automation Controller (3.6@28) 4 $Contains no known trackers \o/$ UPB, Zwave, X10, Insteon, ESI drapery Controllers, …
CoolRemote (3.6@5) 3 $Contains no known trackers \o/$ HVAC, Daikin, …
Homey (Legacy) (3.2@159) Ǥ 12 / Homey (Preview) (4@79) Ǥ 14 Vorstellung 4/2018
mediola IQONTROL (3.1@97) Ǥ 11 $Contains no known trackers \o/$ Conrad RSL, Elero, HomeMatic, Logitech Harmony, RWE SmartHome
Home Companion for Wear (3.1@30) Ǥ 8 LastUpdate: 2016-11-21 supports FHEM, pilight, openHAB
Schwaiger Home (3@31) Ǥ 11 Z-Wave, ZigBee and WiFi
FHEMswitch (2.9@14) Ǥ 7 widget for displaying and controlling FHEM devices; requires NodeJS and fhem.js on the FHEM server side
SmartHomie (2.8@147) 1 $Contains no known trackers \o/$ LastUpdate: 2016-01-30 AVM Fritz!Box
Gladys (0@0) 2 Github
Home Assistant (0@0) 4 $Contains no known trackers \o/$ LastUpdate: 2017-09-24 Github; client for Home Assistant
Smart Home Mobile (0@0) 3 LastUpdate: 2015-09-17 Github; Iris Smart Home, IP Video Cameras, IrrigationCaddy & more

¹ via its TellStick devices, Telldus supports a range of protocols, including a.o. X10, several Conrad and IKEA products, Brennenstuhl, Elro, and more.

Further Readings:

Smart-Home-Alarmanlagen selbst planen und einbauen (1/2018)
Four Home Automation Android Apps Compared (Video 6/2013)
Home Automation Systems and Technology Choices (1/2013 - 5/2019)
Belkin WeMo, Steckerchecker und e-Domotica: Funksteckdosen im Test (12/2012)
Izzys ScratchPad: Haus Automation (4/2010)

2019-06-21

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