HomeDirect 4+
Arcelik A.S.
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- Free
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Description
Smart Small Domestic Appliances
With HomeDirect smart home application you can connect your smart small domestic appliances like robot vacuum cleaner, multicooker etc. to your mobile device, allowing you to control and monitor them from anywhere.
Control & monitor your smart home appliances from anywhere.
Adjust and customize some programs in detail, according to your changing needs.
Receive notifications on the topics you want and change your notification settings as you wish.
What’s New
Version 1.0.6
User experience and system stability has been improved.
Ratings and Reviews
A bit too agile development
First of all initial setup with a cleaning robot was painful and I wasted time as the pairing simply does not work if you don’t grant the application access to the location services. I tried on two different phones with different iOS versions and the app wouldn’t discover the robot despite providing correct Wi-Fi credentials and connecting to the robots AP. Of course the application does not notify you that you really need to grant it all the privileges to work. From my perspective the app should work with a limited set of privileges to respect the end user’s privacy. Also if some privileges are required for correct functioning - the user should be notified about it. With the current state one may really struggle to setup the device and the application.
Volume control of the robot does not appear to work - despite changes in the application the robot seems to confirm the change with the same level of volume all the time. Not sure if this is a robot firmware issue.
As for adding devices using the camera - if the app is not granted access to the camera it hangs and needs to be restated - lack of privilege is not handled gracefully.
Attempt to share the house via iMessage, AirDrop and email failed. For example with IMessage the recipient receives a message (null). With AirDrop a text file is sent to the recipient and that’s all. If house can not be shared by those means the UI should not allow them.
Finally there’s the localization. It really looks like nobody is testing this - with polish setup the app was really hard to use. Some of the translation strings are simply missing (e.g. button text is not present etc) and other are inaccurately translated - for example when inviting one to your house you have account number instead of email address. There are lots of such issues. Personally I had to switch the app to English to use it comfortably. Please test your UI and localization strings. If you use automated translations a person should still verify if the translations are accurate and make sense.
Nightmare
Not user friendly at all. Now in addition there is no way of adding anyone to your group/family as all I got is just OK and nothing happens. Please fix this issue
Łączność
Nie mam możliwości połączenia się z tele, z czego to wynika?
App Privacy
The developer, Arcelik A.S., indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.
Data Linked to You
The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:
- Location
- Contact Info
- User Content
- Identifiers
- Usage Data
- Diagnostics
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- User Content
- Diagnostics
Privacy practices may vary based on, for example, the features you use or your age. Learn More
Information
- Provider
- Arcelik A.S.
- Size
- 196.7 MB
- Category
- Utilities
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 11.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 11.0 or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Belarusian, Bengali, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Burmese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Filipino, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Javanese, Kashmiri, Kazakh, Kinyarwanda, Korean, Laotian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Malay, Marathi, Mongolian, Nepali, Norwegian Bokmål, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Simplified Chinese, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Uighur, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © Arçelik A.Ş.
- Price
- Free