Indigo Domotics

There hasn't been any work on Indigo Touch iOS app for quite a while.

(I don't see anything mentioned in the Indigo 7.3.0 release notes, but haven't loaded it yet. If there is new stuff, please point me that way.)

I'm wondering if there are any plans for any significant changes or improvements. The "world of UI" has evolved quite a bit but Indigo Touch has stayed the same.

Many requests for substantive features have been logged here in the past. I won't go through the full laundry list, but modern capabilities like geofencing, and lots more haven't been addressed.

Other than the obligatory refresh when Apple does something that totally breaks it (possible every June with WWDC preview of Apple's software direction/evolution), is anything even on the planning board?

We don't discuss our feature roadmap publicly, but we know Indigo Touch is feeling a bit neglected.

I’ve been thinking that Shortcuts hooks for Indigo Touch might be useful, but iOS 13 may give Shortcuts full access to HomeKit and then I could do everything I want via HomeKit Bridge.


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It would be really nice to finally utilize the screen of an iPhone Max.

jbdecker wrote:

It would be really nice to finally utilize the screen of an iPhone Max.

That, plus the ability to edit triggers and schedules would make it infinitely more useful!


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rehafer wrote:

I’ve been thinking that Shortcuts hooks for Indigo Touch might be useful, but iOS 13 may give Shortcuts full access to HomeKit and then I could do everything I want via HomeKit Bridge.


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Agree Shortcuts hook would be great. There are some things I don't want to expose to the Home app (sometimes Siri "mis-hears" and turns off an entire room instead of a light in that room, for example. I have virtual devices that I need to toggle that would show to the Home app as switches and get turned off).

Aww I was disappointed when I saw an indigo touch update this morning, but it was just apple updating the certificate.



2017 though.. is that right? Scary!

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Amazing it still works so well! We definitely have plans for a new version on the drawing board.

And thanks to Apple for actually updating the certificate for us. I was pleasantly surprised when I got the email from them saying they were doing that the other day.

Just wanted to mention that Indigo Touch works just fine on an M1 Mac. Not that you'd really need it there but I tried it and it works.

Indigo touch works pretty well. Some people may complain it hasn't been updated in a while, but frankly the functionality is great.

My biggest request for the future would be to support Shortcuts, so we could script it a bit. But there are a lot of work-arounds available for that (namely via the Homekit plugin) so I'm content.

I agree, it works well but hooks into shortcuts would be great. Homekit Siri doesn't support action groups, so short cut access to the action groups would help.

Funny you should mention Shortcuts and Indigo. I'm currently working on some examples of how to use Shortcuts with Indigo's new and improved API that will ship with version 2022.2.

Stay tuned!

DaveL17 wrote:

Funny you should mention Shortcuts and Indigo. I'm currently working on some examples of how to use Shortcuts with Indigo's new and improved API that will ship with version 2022.2.

Stay tuned!

I am looking forward to seeing your new API use for shortcuts as I was worried that my 40 odd Siri Indigo shortcuts would stop working ( or is the original API still going to be available in 2022.2?) but even so you will no doubt open more options with your examples.

The best answer I can give is "maybe" as it depends on which API you're using for each shortcut. The Restful API is going to be deprecated in the next major release (Indigo v2022.2).

However, plugins that use the "message" API should continue to work as they do now.

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DaveL17 wrote:

The best answer I can give is "maybe" as it depends on which API you're using for each shortcut. The Restful API is going to be deprecated in the next major release (Indigo v2022.2).

However, plugins that use the "message" API should continue to work as they do now.

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I just use shortcuts to open/close garage, front door and turn on/off devices, no hardcore coding , hence why I wait with baited breath for your examples.



Hopefully this will still work on 2022.2


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