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

2020-02-17

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

2020-02-17

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

Composer Express (4.3@118) 7 for dealers
Control4® MyHome (4.1@986) Ǥ 10 LastUpdate: 2016-04-21
Control4 for OS 2 (3.9@839) Ǥ 18

Crestron

2020-02-17

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 (4.1@281) 5 $Contains no known trackers \o/$ LastUpdate: 2012-10-29 / Crestron Mobile Pro (4@64; ~EUR 77.50) Ǥ 7 $Contains no known trackers \o/$ LastUpdate: 2013-07-18
Crestron Pyng for Android (3.1@16) Ǥ 11
Crestron App (3@241) Ǥ 15 $Contains no known trackers \o/$

Domotics / X10

2020-02-17

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 (4.3@228) 4 $Contains no known trackers \o/$ X10 CM10A, CM11A, CM17A & CP10 via Home Vista server
Domoticz Home Automation Lite (4.2@2,721) Ǥ 25 / Domoticz - Home Automation (4.3@2,108; ~EUR 7.00) Ǥ 20 Github
Lutron Home+ LEGACY (4@170) Ǥ 9 / Lutron Home Control+ LEGACY (3.7@107) Ǥ 10 requires a Lutron total home control system
X10 Commander (3.9@104; ~EUR 3.75) Ǥ 6 LastUpdate: 2013-04-07
X10 WiFi (3.6@48) 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 (3.5@211) 3 $Contains no known trackers \o/$ LastUpdate: 2015-08-03
X10 Controller (3@50) 2 $Contains no known trackers \o/$ LastUpdate: 2012-12-26

HAI / Leviton

2020-02-17

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@3; ~EUR 12.00) Ǥ 8
NQLink - Leviton OmniPro II app (4.6@44; ~EUR 33.00) 12
My Leviton (3.9@692) 11
BitWise Touch (3.9@77) 8 $Contains no known trackers \o/$ LastUpdate: 2018-02-08
LuminaRF SA (3@6) 12 $Contains no known trackers \o/$
SnapLink (2.7@234; ~EUR 20.00) 3 $Contains no known trackers \o/$ LastUpdate: 2017-05-03

HomeMatic (ELV/Conrad)

2020-02-17

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

TinyMatic - HomeMatic for your pocket! (4.6@1,608) Ǥ 11 / TinyMatic Unlocker (4.2@184; ~EUR 8.50) 0 $Contains no known trackers \o/$ LastUpdate: 2017-10-14
CasaTest (4.5@16) 7 $Contains no known trackers \o/$ LastUpdate: 2016-11-30 / CasaPro (4.4@31; ~EUR 4.00) Ǥ 8 $Contains no known trackers \o/$ LastUpdate: 2016-11-30 CasaControl(tm) Premium
HomeKey (4.4@156) Ǥ 12
Home24 MediaPlayer (4.2@33) 13 $Contains no known trackers \o/$ Tasker-Support
iWindow (4@7) 2 $Contains no known trackers \o/$ LastUpdate: 2017-08-18
Home24 (3.6@341) 8 / Home24-Tablet (4.1@103) 8
Homematic IP (3.5@1,260) Ǥ 9
EASY App (3.1@109) Ǥ 15
HistClient (2.7@14) 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

2020-02-17

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

Total Connect Comfort (4.4@59,519) 9
ULINK 2.0 (4.1@12) Ǥ 18 LastUpdate: 2016-03-22
NorthStar Connect (3.9@308) Ǥ 17
MB - Remote Control (3.4@24) 3 $Contains no known trackers \o/$ LastUpdate: 2013-04-30 / MB - Remote Control V2 (2.8@52) 2 $Contains no known trackers \o/$ LastUpdate: 2017-10-18
Total Connect (3.2@279) 3 $Contains no known trackers \o/$ LastUpdate: 2015-11-17 / Total Connect 2.0 (4.2@4,584) Ǥ 18

KNX/EIB

2020-02-17

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

U.motion Communication (5@6) 8 $Contains no known trackers \o/$ LastUpdate: 2015-09-21
knXpresso (4.8@65) Ǥ 14
KNX SmartHome (4.8@5) Ǥ 8 LastUpdate: 2017-05-05
KNX: EcoButler KNX Server (4.7@15) Ǥ 10 requires server component
theServa (4.6@18) 4 LastUpdate: 2018-03-15
Basic KNX (4.6@7) Ǥ 9
ayControl KNX + IoT smarthome (4.3@150) Ǥ 13
BlueHome (4.3@99) 8 / BlueHome Unlocker (4.6@19; ~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
Feller KNX (4.1@21) 6
DIVUS OPTIMA (4@29) 7
knx wizard (4@21) Ǥ 5
domovea v1 (3.5@256) 6 $Contains no known trackers \o/$ / domovea - tablet (3.9@57) 6 $Contains no known trackers \o/$
InSideControl (3.5@105) 10 $Contains no known trackers \o/$ LastUpdate: 2017-12-20
HAPPY HOME (3.4@64) 7
KNonX (0@0; ~EUR 2.00) Ǥ 6 $Contains no known trackers \o/$ LastUpdate: 2017-01-10

Somfy

2020-02-17

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@96) Ǥ 8
Somfy Protect (4.2@5,889) Ǥ 22
TaHoma by Somfy (4.2@3,884) Ǥ 16
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
Somfy Keys (3.8@198) Ǥ 15
Connexoon Access (3.8@165) Ǥ 18 / Connected Thermostat (4.3@767) Ǥ 16 / Connexoon Window RTS (3.2@70) Ǥ 16
HomeWizard (3.1@621) Ǥ 14 Somfy, Philips Hue, Cresta, IP cams & more; requires HomeWizard box
Somfy Smart Shades (3.1@14) Ǥ 14 LastUpdate: 2017-01-03
SOMFY ALARM (2.8@599) 6

Zigbee

2020-02-17

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 (4.2@12) Ǥ 17
abode (3.5@426) Ǥ 25 ZigBee + ZWave
ubisys Smart Home (3.5@8) Ǥ 10
My Zipato (2.8@357) Ǥ 13 LastUpdate: 2018-04-10 ZWave + ZigBee
Hui Light (2.3@6) 13 $Contains no known trackers \o/$ LastUpdate: 2017-08-28

ZWave

2020-02-17

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

AutHomationHD (4.6@357) 10 LastUpdate: 2014-08-03 MiCasaVerde; with Tasker-Integration
Horus Smart Control (4.5@38) Ǥ 16 LastUpdate: 2018-08-08
RainShadow Vera NFC (4.4@7) 3 LastUpdate: 2014-09-05
Vera Alerts (4.2@155) Ǥ 8 Tasker-Integration; MiCasaVerde
AutoVera (4@161) 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
Habitat Z-wave Client (3.7@11) Ǥ 8 Github
Axial Control Free (3.6@158) Ǥ 10 LastUpdate: 2018-04-26 / Axial Control Paid (4.4@48; ~EUR 3.75) Ǥ 10 LastUpdate: 2018-04-07
abode (3.5@426) Ǥ 25 ZigBee + ZWave
My Zipato (2.8@357) Ǥ 13 LastUpdate: 2018-04-10 ZWave + ZigBee

Other/Multiple Home Automation protocols

2020-02-17

SIRAL Home by SIRAL (5@9) 2 $Contains no known trackers \o/$
Conrox (5@3) Ǥ 11 KNX, Homematic, HTTP APIs
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@11) Ǥ 12 KNX, Modbus, IP Cams, …
IPSView (4.8@39) Ǥ 9 for IPSymcon (Windows components required)
Home Automation Alarm Sender (4.8@6) 1 LastUpdate: 2018-04-22 Github; OpenHAB
SUPLA (4.7@2,805) 6
CUBEVISION APP (Obsolete) (4.7@36) 4 $Contains no known trackers \o/$ LastUpdate: 2017-10-06 KNX, EnOcean
IGH (4.7@33) 6 $Contains no known trackers \o/$ / IGH Compact (4.5@45) 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
EVE Remote Plus (4.7@16) Ǥ 12 KNX, Modbus, ZWave, …
HMI-APP V5 (4.7@7) 6
HomePilot (4.6@907) Ǥ 8
IP-Symcon Mobile (4.6@125) Ǥ 9 requires Windows components
XS1 Heimautomatisierung (4.6@62) Ǥ 10 LastUpdate: 2013-11-10 for EZcontrol ® XS1
MyOmBox - MyHome automation (4.6@32) 2 $Contains no known trackers \o/$ LastUpdate: 2017-11-20
XFINITY Home (4.5@39,075) Ǥ 20 bound to Comcast?
openHAB (4.5@1,311) Ǥ 14 / openHAB Beta (4.9@155) Ǥ 15 Github; formerly HABDroid; 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@31; ~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
Vivint Smart Home (4.4@66,006) Ǥ 25 subscription required
COSMOTE Smart Home (4.4@63) Ǥ 15 HomeMatic, ZigBee Pro, Dect ULE – Sonos, Philips Hue, Netatmo & more
OpenWebNet (4.4@58) Ǥ 3 Github
PowerSwitch (4.3@258) Ǥ 13 $Contains no known trackers \o/$ LastUpdate: 2018-03-29 Github; diverse Baumarkt-Funksteckdosen
Switch King (4.3@163) 3 $Contains no known trackers \o/$ LastUpdate: 2017-08-09 requires Switch King Server and Telldus Tellstick¹
TPControl (for AMX) (4.3@99) Ǥ 22 $Contains no known trackers \o/$ LastUpdate: 2018-04-17
Talk to HOME (4.3@29; ~EUR 2.50) Ǥ 13 Philips HUE, Sonos, OpenHAB, REST/HTTP
MyVirtuoso Home (4.3@22) Ǥ 19
Crownstone (4.3@6) Ǥ 12 Github
Lifedomus (4.2@140) Ǥ 15 / Lifedomus Design Studio (4.1@28) Ǥ 13 KNX, ZigBee, EnOcean, Legrand MyHome, … requires a Lifedomus box; / KNX, Z-Wave, EnOcean, Sonos …
i2 Control V2.2 (4.2@56) 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
Indra V3 Domotique (4.2@16) Ǥ 13 $Contains no known trackers \o/$ LastUpdate: 2016-04-16 Wiegand, EIB/KNX, X10, Oregon, X10, PLCbus
AFRISOhome (4.2@12) Ǥ 10 EnOcean, Z-Wave, ZigBee, wireless M-Bus
Eltako FVS Mobile (4.1@13) 2 $Contains no known trackers \o/$ LastUpdate: 2017-01-27
Tell My House - Tellstick (4@271) 3 LastUpdate: 2017-08-16 for TellStick¹
Lutron Home+ LEGACY (4@170) Ǥ 9 / Lutron Home Control+ LEGACY (3.7@107) Ǥ 10 requires a Lutron total home control system
CoolRemote (4@7) 3 $Contains no known trackers \o/$ HVAC, Daikin, …
SmartLife V2 (4@4) Ǥ 14 Leviton Omni, Bitwise, RTI, Spotify, Apple Music and Pandora
homee (3.9@499) Ǥ 10 Z-Wave, ZigBee and EnOcean
Yeti - Smart Home Automation (3.9@435) Ǥ 17 Philips hue, Netatmo, Lifx, Belkin, Sonos
everHome Smart Home (3.9@91) Ǥ 12 Intertechno, Homematic, everHome
Futurehome (3.9@61) Ǥ 13 Z-Wave, Enocean and other
DMX4ALL Remote (3.9@9) Ǥ 7 $Contains no known trackers \o/$
TelLIVE Remote Lite (3.8@295) 1 $Contains no known trackers \o/$ LastUpdate: 2016-02-19 / TelLIVE Remote (4@93; ~EUR 1.00) 4 LastUpdate: 2016-03-23 for TellStick¹
HABPanelViewer Kiosk utility for openHAB HABPanel (3.8@39) 12
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 …
pilight (3.7@56) 3 $Contains no known trackers \o/$ LastUpdate: 2015-05-10
andFHEM (3.6@861) Ǥ 11 / andFHEM Premium (4.2@184; ~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).
Home Remote (3.6@456) 7 Crestron, Denon, Fibaro, Honeywell, Insteon, Lutron, Marantz, Nest, Netatmo, Yamaha …
Home Automation Controller (3.6@28) 4 $Contains no known trackers \o/$ UPB, Zwave, X10, Insteon, ESI drapery Controllers, …
iViewer 5 (3.4@126) 18 $Contains no known trackers \o/$ Crestron, AMX, Control4, GlobalCache, and more
ImperiHome – Smart Home & Smart City Management (3.2@1,772) Ǥ 22 Video Demo 1/2013; Vera / VeraLite (ZWave), ZiBase, Zipabox, Netatmo, eedomus, LightManager, IPX800 V3
Schwaiger Home (3.2@34) Ǥ 11 Z-Wave, ZigBee and WiFi
HomeWizard (3.1@621) Ǥ 14 Somfy, Philips Hue, Cresta, IP cams & more; requires HomeWizard box
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
FHEMswitch (2.9@16) Ǥ 8 widget for displaying and controlling FHEM devices; requires NodeJS and fhem.js on the FHEM server side
Homey (Legacy) (2.8@159) Ǥ 12 Vorstellung 4/2018
SmartHomie (2.8@147) 1 $Contains no known trackers \o/$ LastUpdate: 2016-01-30 AVM Fritz!Box
Gladys (0@0) 2 LastUpdate: 2018-06-19 Github
FhemNative (0@0) 6 $Contains no known trackers \o/$ Github
Home Assistant (0@0) 4 $Contains no known trackers \o/$ LastUpdate: 2017-09-24 Github; client for Home Assistant

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)

2020-02-22

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