kennybroh wrote:Totally disagree.. It is ideal for the way the watch. is navigated. In essence you would set up nested lists.with the most likely devices easily accessible. We do't have to agree, but thee are already at least 6 home automation apps for the watch, including an Insteon app, and two or three Philips Hue apps. Apparently someone agrees with me. And since a number of my devices are insteon I can do this another way. It's just too bad I will have to set up parallel systems and won't be able to do it with Indigo.
As to your general observations about the watch, apparently you haven't read any of the reviews of the watch. At least several noted technology columnists wrote that after 2 or 3 frustrating days trying to understand how best to use it, they couldn't live without it and it totally changed the way they interacted with their personal technology. For example, read this article from the New York Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/09/techn ... technology
There's a bunch of other announced automation apps?! Then it MUST be useful.
I read the reviews, and agree with what you said, but the fact that people found it indispensable was that it left them more connected, not because they could now do all the complicated things they want on their wrist.
You know even if it IS on the watch, it's not going to be like "walk into a room, tap your watch and the lights go on" right?
First you have to go to the app screen, then find the app and load it. Then find what you want to control and activate it.
Maybe we just have a slightly different sense of what home automation is really about. When I'm in the house, I rarely even use my phone to control things as there's almost always a better way (switch, keypad, remote, etc). I LIKE having phone control so I can monitor/control remotely. When I'm IN the house, I want the automation system to be more... Automated.
Sorry, I just can get the image of standing in a dark doorway for 6-8 seconds trying to find out how to turn on the light out of my head.
And don't get me wrong - I'd love apple watch support - I just want other things more.