NetHome Plus 4+

Learned a few things from this app. 1 data collection over functionality. 2. The app uses a weird weather service to determine weather data. 3. There are a few functions you can use in the app only like check the device for 111 errors and firmware updates. 4 the welcome Home Screen has weather that never works. 5. The units I purchased have excessive temperature tolerances variances. 6. I would rather use apple home but the QR codes don’t play with Apple home at all. The only reason I gave this app a second star was for the diagnostic and firmware which may or may not work. This app needs a serious update for functionality. And QR codes that work with Apple home.

Been using this app daily for about a year now. The GUI is clunky and has several buttons that don’t even work on my Danby window AC. That’s not the worst thing though. I have this linked to Alexa to turn my AC on and off. I’d guess about 60-70% of the time, she comes back with “sorry, AC is not responding” and I have to ask several times to get it to work. This may not be the app’s fault though.
However, another huge annoyance is that I’ll open the app regularly and receive “account verification failed” and have to log in again. This happens about once a week and is incredibly annoying.
If they even left the GUI alone and clunky but it at least worked consistently, I’d have a much better opinion of it, but as it is, it’s not dependable enough to ever trust.

Why can’t I create groups? Why can’t I turn off the LED from app? Why is does it require internet? Simple basic stuff is just not available. I shouldn’t need to hit the internet to interact with my LOCAL hardware. I should be able to turn then all off and on in groups and change modes and degrees. And it’s obnoxious I can’t turn off LED from app because every time you turn a unit on the LED defaults to on. I’m writing my own at this point and deploying it in my k8s pi cluster.