![]() These are hot off the presses and they can go right on your Home Screen. In late December, Roomie 8.2 launched new widgets designed in the new style and framework, no longer relegated to the bottom of the widget list with other old widgets. This feature can be disabled in the Always-on Settings panel if you have miscreants on your Wi-Fi at times. Simply by getting on Wi-Fi, the home can be shared instantly. You are visiting your parents’ home, or your integrator is visiting your home. A core use case for this feature is visiting a home. Remote synchronization is still performed via iCloud, and iCloud Sharing is still supported. For users that can rely upon synchronization over the local network, it is the new preferred method of sync. We now provide a direct local network sharing method bypassing all of that. Since the V6 release, we have relied entirely upon iCloud Sharing to share with Family or Guests. ![]() The most notable are Live Activities, and Instant Home Sharing. In early November, Roomie 8.1 launched adding several significant upgrades. Note that the new widgets requires iOS 16.1 or macOS 13.1, and Live Activities support requires iOS 16.1. The actual minimum requirement is any device that runs iOS 15, tvOS 15, macOS 12. A Primary Controller with numerous video cameras on the Dashboard and Automation tasks really benefits from an M1 such as that in the iPad Air 5, but the new 2022 Apple TV 4K with an A15 CPU is also an excellent choice. An A12 CPU (such as that in the 2021 Apple TV 4K) should be considered the absolute minimum today. The current recommended Primary Controller for new purchases is either an iPad Air 5 if you plan to use it as a dashboard, or an iPhone 13 mini – with an 1G Ethernet dongle on either. Remember to evaluate your Primary Controller platform to make sure it is up to date. System Requirements have increased by the usual +1 annual change. This long-planned transition may look simple, but took a huge amount of planning and work behind the scenes. New Alexa links, if you choose to create one, use Sign In with Apple authentication instead of the old accounts. Existing Alexa links will continue to work as long as you perform an in-place upgrade from a working linked device. Going forward as of this release, everything goes through Sign In with Apple offering you numerous privacy options while also providing the only thing we actually needed which is a unique identifier to distinguish a particular home for relaying Alexa Commands. All of the old accounts, email addresses, and names are being purged for privacy. The payments through the old system have finally all expired and thus are shut down and consolidated in this release. We later consolidated in Version 6 (2018) so that all payments go through Apple for simplicity and security, cloud sync goes through iCloud, and Remote Access uses VPN thus obviating the original accounts. These accounts offered a secondary payment system designed for integrators, Remote Access, and Cloud Sync. In 2015, we added Simple Control Accounts. Both target types support sending announcements to all known speakers simultaneously. Sonos announcements are now much higher quality. Our built-in Intercomm system also available as a stand-alone app now supports direct HomePod intercom announcements live – not pre-recorded. Video Cameras and diagnostic logging can be split off into their own windows. This is most obvious on macOS, but also supports the newly introduced iPadOS 16.1’s Stage Manager as well as iPadOS 15’s side-by-side mode. Meanwhile, multiple window support has been added. We’re very proud of how well integrated this is, and that’s due in large part to top-notch systems from Lutron that allowed us to explore these finer details in a very reliable way. On the other end, Pico hard button remotes are now supported with Caséta. For Homeworks QSX, keypad monitoring is now supported. ![]() In this release, all of the modern Lutron controllers are supported including quite a few advanced use cases. One of the most important integrations from long ago has been our partnership with Lutron. The primary systems of the app including the Activities Panel and Action Panel have been significantly updated. Version 8 focuses on updating core pieces of the app. ![]()
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