FIBARO for iPhone 4+

Great idea, not great execution.

Update December 2018.

The fibaro system is good but they oversell the system when infact it's unreliable, highly complex to setup and not always logical to use, let alone program.

The app misses simple features which would make it so much more user friendly. Quick switching between multiple home centres. They responded to this with "it's only a few pushed away" but truthfully it's many more. If I last left the app in a room in my house I'm hitting "back", "back" "settings", "choose HC" "other HC" and if I'm lucky and it actually connects to the HC I've asked it to, then I've a few more pushes to get to the controls for the new HC.

Customisable switch panels like my previous software "indigo" were great. Fibaro doesn't easily let you create these. Being able to see a timer for "sensor last breached" was useful until they removed it. The ability to restart a crashed hc2 from the app would be good.

Mostly for the App I'd appreciate quick switching from one HC to another and immediate controls for light settings or scenes. It's a faff with this app.

I don't trust fibaro to produce updates that work first time so I rarely update immediately.

I think the fibaro team are great, but every update has flaws and it feels like we're still in beta most of the time.

Developer Response ,

Thank you for your opinion. Just to clarify: how would you like to access the crashed HC2 via the mobile app? Thank you for your suggestions, we appreciate that! Note that we released the new app https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/fibaro-home-center/id1421839464?l=pl - try it out! And we released an update 2.25.0 for this app. Regards, FIBARO Team

Ugly, clunky, poor layout, poor effort

Legacy app that hasn’t been updated for a while. It does work most of the time to do the basic tasks required of it but still has bugs. It’s an ugly app for sure with minimal attention to the user experience. Going into this app to do things is a chore with zero ‘delight’ factor for the end user.
Fibaro just relying on (mostly) decent hardware and coming in pathetically sub par on the software front.

No access from iPhone 😩😡🤯(now sorted)

To follow on from my updated review yesterday. I painfully restored my phone from the ICloud to get a previous backup on it. Accessed Fibaro app, all ok. So based on this, deleted the app and then downloaded again. Logged to ID, and back up and running all ok👍🏼👍🏼. Back to ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.

PS. I have left the comments below in case they help. PPS. If anyone else experiences this too try deleting the app first rather than the iCloud stuff as it is really time consuming.😩.

Have been using Fibaro and the app for several years with no issues at all. The app has been great......except for today where I now have no access to my HCL.

The app auto updated today from version 2.21.0 which was working fine to version 2.22.0. I now have no access local (wi-fi) or away (3/4G).

So no home control anymore which I use everyday from my phone.

Not happy. Please fix.

PS: it works fine from my IPad.

Developer Response ,

Thank you for the review. The fixed version has been already sent for review to Apple. It should be available soon. Sorry for the inconvenience.