Home automation provider Control4 has finally seen fit to open up its systems to Android users, releasing a version of its MyHome software for phones and tablets. Already available on iOS and PCs, it lets homeowners with Control4 setups manage their video, music, lighting and more all alone devices with taps and gestures. The apps themselves are free, but naturally one will want a MyHome license to make use of them, which runs $499 for multiple devices at one location or $199 for a single device. After all, if you’ve had such a installed scraping together the money probably won’t be too difficult, while you are checking the couch for loose change we’ll chill and sweetness whatever happened to that Android@Home project we (haven’t) heard lots about.
New app provides whole home control from today’s premier devices.
Salt Lake City, UT – December 14, 2011- Control4, a pace-setter in affordable IP-based home control systems, announces their new Control4® MyHome™ application for Android™-based smartphones and tablets. This addition to the preferred Control4 MyHome family lets homeowners use the straightforward yet powerful Control4 interface at the leading mobile device platforms, providing total home control over video, music, lighting, thermostat, security, and more.
“Android’s fresh features and popular marketplace have driven mobile platform’s popularity, and now our customers want the benefit to engage with their Control4 systems from their new Android devices,” said Martin Plaehn, Chief Executive Officer of Control4. “Like our MyHome iPad™ and iPhone™ apps, both popular additions to our lineup, we anticipate the brand new app for Android will let our dealers put the right Control4 interface in front of our customers. With smartphones and tablets topping most holiday gift lists, we’re expecting an increasing number of consumers to demand home control from these devices…and we’re delivering.”
Dealers now have without equal flexibility to deliver the greatest control interface for every customer, whether or not they desire to use smartphones, tablets, Control4 touch screens, remotes, and/or keypads to regulate functions of their home. Since MyHome provides a well-recognized Control4 user interface on leading mobile device platforms like Android and iOS, customers will feel productive and up to the mark despite where or how they have interaction with their systems.
Dealers can leverage the MyHome licensing model to mix ‘n match Android, iPhone, iPad, or perhaps PC or Mac interfaces right into a single Control4 system. For patrons adding MyHome capability to their systems, the enabling license for multiple devices at a single location, or site, is $499, while a single device license is $199. Homeowners who have already got a MyHome site license can add support for his or her Android devices without cost; they just need to download the app.
Over 250 Control4 Dealers participated in a non-public preview for the Control4 MyHome application for Android and provided here reviews:
“Works amazing! i’m so excited that my clients can profit from their Android devices.” – Chris Coleman, Perfect Solutions AV
“i’ll have quite a lot of happy customers.” – Bryan Ware, CrossLink Integrated Solutions
“Installed flawlessly and works like a charm on mine and my wife’s Nexus S running 2.3.6. Fast and responsive. i’m so happy to not should switch backward and forward from [my] remote to [the] app!” – Sanjay Rana, Kays Interiors
“i admire this thing up to now!” – AJ Brunson, Foothills Systems
The app shall be available as a free download on December 14, 2011, at the Android Market or at the Amazon Appstore for Android. The MyHome application for Android supports Android operating systems 2.1 through 3.2.
The app features a demo mode that permits customers to work out the features supported inside the application. To aim the app in demo mode, download the app from the Android Market and from the Welcome Screen, simply launch the app into Demo mode.
For additional information on Control4 or to find a Control4 Dealer in a city near you, please visit www.control4.com.
About Control4
Control4, a number one provider of the operating system for the smart home, delivers intelligent control over consumer electronics products, appliances and networking systems through a simple-to-use and intuitive software interface. Founded in 2003, the corporate delivers affordable automation of lighting, music, video, thermostat, security, and effort management systems through greater than 2,000 custom integrators, shops, and distributors in over 70 countries. With probably the most intelligent, open and affordable control solution available to buy, Control4 is the platform of choice for major consumer electronics companies, residential homes, hotels, businesses and utilities that require an intelligent, open and affordable control solution. For additional info visit www.control4.com.
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