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Half of the time, the app shows my dehumidifier as being off when it is on, or on when it is off, which is utterly confusing especially as it is in a location which I can't access. Have the kill the app to make it force refresh and show an up to date status...

When using a camera the app turns the phone into call mode for the volume buttons. When you exit the app the volume slider stays as a phone call slider which means you can't change the media volume. I continually have to restart my phone to fix this issue. Force stopping and backing out of the application both don't work. In other news however, once you set up your devices and family home this app is actually really nice. Suggestion: flip camera should flip the direction controls.

Good app with a few annoyances mainly in the "Add Scene" department. 1) Going to add scene the 2 options have text truncated (despite plenty of spare space below the buttons) so I'm not sure what they're supposed to say exactly. 2) Automated Scene, I set the condition, then get execute the following action, I select a device and then get only a countdown option. Countdown to what? Turn on or off? OK I select countdown since I can't just say "turn on". I then am presented with a time, measured in seconds only. So if I want to turn something on for 12 hours I need to scroll down to 43200. Since a scroll adjusts about 5 seconds each scroll that's only about 8500 swipes. Even just entering 5 minutes is painul We need clearer instructions and a more rational method of entering time increments Haven't experimented too much. Basic functions work well. Advanced ones, not so sure.