HomeScan for HomeKit 4+
Bluetooth Scan your Home
Pearce Media Limited
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- $0.99
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Description
Diagnose signal issues and improve responsiveness of your Bluetooth based HomeKit devices with HomeScan.
• Improve your HomeKit accessories signal strength
Use HomeScan to optimally place your Bluetooth accessories within your home, reducing latency issues and signal interference. Peak and average signal strength allow you to diagnose existing devices, while the graph shows you signal strength over a set period of time.
• Use it with your HomePod or Apple TV
Simply place your device on your HomeKit Hub, choose the accessory you wish to diagnose then watch the signal strength shown on the display.
• Take it on the go with the Apple Watch app
Take the signal strength meter on the go with the included Apple Watch app to find the best location to put that door sensor.
• Audible readouts for ease of use
HomeScan can call out the current signal strength audibly to guide you through placing your device.
What’s New
Version 1.1.4
This update adds bug fixes and small improvements to bring HomeScam up to date with iOS.
Ratings and Reviews
Should run on Apple TV
Since step one is to place the iPhone running this app next to the HomeKit hub, and a hub is (typically) an Apple TV the app should just run natively on the Apple TV and send it’s data to the iPhone app as the companion. I get you can use the Apple Watch as the companion to the iPhone, but the iPhone’s Bluetooth performance could be different from the actual hub’s Bluetooth performance.
Developer Response ,
Hi, we are looking into this as a possibility, but built this originally just an iOS/Watch combo to cover the cases of iPads, and HomePods as well as the Apple TV.
Sending data over to the iPhone from a Apple TV would be doable, just highly complex which could introduce issues overall into the reliability of the system
Best app for sorting out Homekit Bluetooth troubles
HomeScan was built specifically to help customers who are struggling with their HomeKit Bluetooth accessories to figure out what’s going wrong. Bluetooth 4 range is much lower than wifi which can result in people placing their BLE devices too far away and then complaining that it doesn’t work.
HomeScan can help you figure out if you’re out of range and gives you the info you need to really optimize your installation. The Apple Watch app is also sweet as you can walk around and use your combined devices to plan your installation.
If you want to get the most out of your Smart house and your using Bluetooth accessories - this app is a must have.
App Privacy
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Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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Information
- Seller
- Pearce Media Limited
- Size
- 6 MB
- Category
- Lifestyle
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 16.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 16.0 or later.
- Apple Watch
- Requires watchOS 9.0 or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2024 Pearce Media Limited
- Price
- $0.99
Supports
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Family Sharing
Up to six family members can use this app with Family Sharing enabled.