Anyone know what app was used for the "surprise" ad?
"Home - Smart Home Automation" from Matthias Hochgatterer. It accesses your HomeKit in iCloud and displays all devices recorded there from multiple vendors. You can set up Scenes using this app, or access devices individually using either the iPhone app or its Apple Watch component. Since it's a HomeKit enabled app, you can use Siri to voice command switches and scenes, both from the iPhone and from the Apple Watch paired with the controlling iPhone.
I use it to access all my Insteon switches configured in the Insteon+ app using the Insteon Pro Hub and my Hue lights configured in the Philips Hue app using its HomeKit enabled hub. So, the Home app works as a very nice consolidator app for HomeKit devices. Once you learn to deal with the inter-app quirks, it works really well. First thing in the morning, I tell Siri on my Apple Watch to "Set Good Morning Scene" and it switches on the lights I want on for the day. At night, I tell it to set my "Good Night Scene" and it turns identified switches off. Since it works to control my Hue lights, as well, I just tell it to set my TV or Movie scene, as appropriate to turn those lights on to specific colors and brightness levels. It's all really pretty cool. Response often takes a few seconds as the Siri command makes its way to the Apple server for interpretation, then to the HomeKit server to execute back to the in-home individual vendor hubs. If you're away from home, it adds a route through the Apple TV 4 as a gateway from cellular to your home WiFi LAN.
As it stands the future of the Apple Watch looks very bleak because it has not found it's logical raison d'être.
Notifications and the like should be left to the iPhone.
I think that the mission of the Apple Watch rests with health and I also think that it is a mistake for Apple to aim the future of the watch on apps that share health information with doctors or medical establishments. Aging people and those with chronic diseases such as diabetes would gladly go for a non invasive surface device that provides vital health information.
There are already sensors for heart rate, blood pressure and sleep monitoring and they provide very useful information to those who need it.
Diabetics need to be alerted urgently when their blood glucose goes south. Low blood glucose is a daily life threat to all type 1 diabetics and many type 2 diabetics. What is sorely missing at this point is a surface sensor for blood glucose. Millions of people would rush to buy a smartwatch that frees them from the uncertainty of low and high blood glucose levels.
When such a product is released the company behind it will gain tremendous respect and gratitude for placing human compassion over and above business monetary goals.
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I use it to access all my Insteon switches configured in the Insteon+ app using the Insteon Pro Hub and my Hue lights configured in the Philips Hue app using its HomeKit enabled hub. So, the Home app works as a very nice consolidator app for HomeKit devices. Once you learn to deal with the inter-app quirks, it works really well. First thing in the morning, I tell Siri on my Apple Watch to "Set Good Morning Scene" and it switches on the lights I want on for the day. At night, I tell it to set my "Good Night Scene" and it turns identified switches off. Since it works to control my Hue lights, as well, I just tell it to set my TV or Movie scene, as appropriate to turn those lights on to specific colors and brightness levels. It's all really pretty cool. Response often takes a few seconds as the Siri command makes its way to the Apple server for interpretation, then to the HomeKit server to execute back to the in-home individual vendor hubs. If you're away from home, it adds a route through the Apple TV 4 as a gateway from cellular to your home WiFi LAN.
As it stands the future of the Apple Watch looks very bleak because it has not found it's logical raison d'être.
Notifications and the like should be left to the iPhone.
I think that the mission of the Apple Watch rests with health and I also think that it is a mistake for Apple to aim the future of the watch on apps that share health information with doctors or medical establishments. Aging people and those with chronic diseases such as diabetes would gladly go for a non invasive surface device that provides vital health information.
There are already sensors for heart rate, blood pressure and sleep monitoring and they provide very useful information to those who need it.
Diabetics need to be alerted urgently when their blood glucose goes south. Low blood glucose is a daily life threat to all type 1 diabetics and many type 2 diabetics. What is sorely missing at this point is a surface sensor for blood glucose. Millions of people would rush to buy a smartwatch that frees them from the uncertainty of low and high blood glucose levels.
When such a product is released the company behind it will gain tremendous respect and gratitude for placing human compassion over and above business monetary goals.