SimpleCommands Overview
What is SimpleCommands? SimpleCommands is an app that allows users to interact with their digital world more effectively and efficiently. It enables users to send and automate commands to their connected devices and services, including smart home devices, garage door openers, alarms, and doorbells. The app's home automation capabilities allow users to trigger, automate, and schedule any combination of their smart home devices. SimpleCommands also offers geotriggers that can turn home lights on/off when users enter or exit a predefined location.
Features
- Securely link digital products and services (Items) to SimpleCommands
- Access and control Items with the app or any one of a variety of voice companions and SMS
- Communicate with Items from anywhere, anytime
- Manage smart home hubs and automate smart home devices
- Featured connections include alarms, smart bulbs and switches, smart hubs, smart sensors, thermostats, garage doors/smart locks, and irrigation
- Conveniently group Items by type/category
- Schedule smart plugs to shut off at certain times of day
- Use alerts from smart cameras to play a sound on Sonos smart speaker and send SMS messages
- Endless combinations and possibilities for smart home automation.
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Product Details and Description of
this app allow you to interact with your digital world more effectively, more efficiently, and on your terms. this app makes it simple to send and automate commands to your connected “Items” like connected smartbulbs from LIFX and TP-Link, WIFI thermostats like Nest Labs and via Wink smart home hubs, all kinds of garage door openers, alarms and doorbells from ring and many other online products and services. The real power of this app is in its home automation capabilities. Trigger, automate, and schedule any combination of your smart home devices. Geotriggers can turn your home lights on/off when you enter or exit a predefined location. Schedule your smart plugs to shut off at certain times of day. Use alerts from your smart cameras to play a sound on your Sonos smart speaker and send yourself an SMS message. The combinations and possibilities for your smart home automation are endless! Step 1: Add your Items After you’ve created an account, it’s quick and easy to get going. Use the phone app to securely link your digital products and services (your “Items”) to this app. Once you have added an items they are immediately accessible via your Listeners and conveniently grouped by type/category. Step 2: Access and control items with at app or any one of a variety of voice compnaions and SMS. Step 3: Use this app Start sending commands! this app allows you to communicate on your terms with your Items from anywhere, anytime. You’ll find this app indispensable when it comes to managing smart home hubs, automating smart home devices, and more. It will change how you communicate with all of your smart (internet-enabled) things, using a convenient simple interface for similar connections! Featured Connections: Alarms: Ring and Honeywell Products Smartbulbs and Switches: iHome, LIFX, TP-Link, Phillips Hue, Osram Lightify, Samsung SmartThings, Insteon Smart Hubs: Insteon, Wink, SmartThings Smart Sensors: iHome, Lyric and Ring Thermostats: ecobee, Honeywell, and via Smarthubs Garage Doors/Smart Locks: Chamberlain/Liftmaster myQ, Garadget and Tuya devices Irrigation: Rachio Stop by and learn more at: https://this app.com
Top Reviews
By Jwrogers12048472184
A bit of a learning curve but great app to increase use of Alexa
I first downloaded this app in order to control a MyQ garage door (I’ve since added some other devices). I’ve read many reviews stating the app did not work with MyQ which simply is not true. However, it does take a bit of setup and background research. Note that you cannot simply add the myq device and then sync with Alexa app. You must create routines (one to open and another to close) inside the this app app. You will then add those to the Alexa app as scenes and you can then run those within an Alexa routine. I admit it is a bit cumbersome but the this app app is providing a workaround that otherwise doesn’t exist so I appreciate the developer for creating a solution. By the way, I learned of the need to create a routine from the app developers support page. The developer has lots of support articles so take a few minutes to read them and give it a try before leaving a negative review. Again, this app allows me to control something with Alexa that wouldn’t be possible otherwise so thumbs up!
By BSzen27
Now I can use Siri/widgets with myQ
I found this app via Reddit, because myQ makes it impossible to set up your own Siri commands to open/close their garages. They also don’t provide any widget access whatsoever. Instead they want you to buy yet another expensive “Siri” device that is barely ever in stock and a pain to set up. This type of stuff should obviously come with your original purchase, like every other company does. Just poor business practice. Long story short, I had my myQ open/close Siri commands running in about 10 minutes with this app. Thank you to the developer(s) for that. I will say that this app isn’t exactly for the novice user, but the developer(s) attempt to do so via EXCELLENT instructions. I did hit one hurdle in the setup process, though. Note that when they say to click “see more”, just click on the right arrow in the “get contents of” section. Good luck!
By JackHyde
Won’t work with Wink Hub 2
When I first got this app I tried to connect it to my wink hub 2. It wouldn’t work. After some back and forth with their support it would connect and get the list of devices but selecting any device gives me a “Retrieving state...” and nothing ever happens past that. They’ve been very supportive up to now. Haven’t heard from them for a couple of weeks. I do have hope that they will find a solution but until they do I have to give one star. UPDATE: They have now fixed it. Works great with my Wink Hub 2. I may find some problems as time goes forward but they deserve 5 stars for a customer service that won’t quit!
