Yonomi Reviews

this app was already a great app that has Nest Support which is a must for me. Adding Siri shortcuts just made Yonomi invaluable. However, fan start / stop for Siri shortcuts seems to be missing which is a huge feature. I reached out to them and they said it was there but I don’t see it. I’ve since reached out 2 more times without any response. 3 stars instead of 5 for two reasons. 1. Missing an important feature that their own support said was there. 2. Support not getting back after the initial response... twice. Hopefully I hear from them soon and Yonomi gets updated with the siri shortcut feature. I will update to 5 stars once these happen.

EDIT: emailed support again... response almost 2 weeks later asking for my account info. Sent it. Been another week and no reply. Reducing my rating to 2 stars for lousy support and wasting my time. I will gladly up this rating once this gets addressed properly.

EDIT 2: down to one star for leaving me hanging and not getting back to me still!!

Looks like it might be good someday, but it currently crashes constantly on the iPhone X. It cannot stay active for more than about 15 seconds, it doesn’t matter what you do, or even if you just open it and do nothing.

I tried deleting and reinstalling Yonomi but it doesn’t help. For the few seconds it was open I also noticed that it had 5 copies of my bedroom Sonos and at least two copies of the Sonos systems that I have in other rooms.

Hopefully they’ll get this fixed at some point.

Very disappointed. No smartthings support, no ihome, iLife, keen, etc. Yonomi literally has the least amount of support for the devices that I own. What makes it more frustrating is that their interface attempts to look like they support a lot of devices by giving 5 different ways to see the same small list. One list is fine, the "Category" list is Just a waste of time. There are so many better ways to organize than the image heavy small modal window.

In addition even supported devices don't give you a clear path to set up and their is NO DISCOVERY option for the brands that are not as popular or even the ones that they say they support. Rather the supported devices focus on purchasing rather than setting up.

Unfortunately this was a total let down. While IOT offers some amazing enhancements, the true benefit is when you can set up automation and routines. I had high hopes as many fellow IOTers were recommending this app after the the stringify sunset announcement. The problem that is not exclusive to Yonomi is I have yet to find an app that supports everything. The new smartthings and Google home come close but they are still not complete.

I do have hope for this app and I applaud their effort for trying to help in the broken industry. Hopefully they will get a full list of devices. And hopefully they will will make a more intuitive app.

I woke up the morning to find out that the this app app had run my coming home routine at 12:41 AM (I was fast asleep) which consists of opening my garage door and unlocking my house. It was based on location, and begins to run as I drive near my home. Somehow my location service must have glitched, and this app thought I had just arrived home and opened my whole house at 12:41 am. Fortunately nothing was stolen and we are safe. This could have gone very differently. Do not trust Yonomi with location based routines. I’m deleting it from my phone. I’ll just use the controller from now on. That was actually a scary thing that happened and Yonomi should have some kind of redundancy like August lock does to make sure you actually left and came back. Bad bad bad and dangerous.

I sent in a few support requests 2 Months ago to no reply. Since the last iOS update Yonomi crashes on launch. So there’s a few automations I would like to delete since Yonomi has been abandon but I can’t even open it.

This was the best home automation app for about 4 years and it was free so I don’t want to complain too much but at least a heads up that Yonomi has been depreciated would have been nice.

Interface is pretty good but miss all of the tools that were available on stringing. Most of time works fine, but I frequently get notification that routine ran, but really didn’t. Seems kind of random so it’s pretty annoying.

Big downside I just realized is that your phone needs to send the signal to run a routine. I was on a long international flight, and wasn’t connected to WiFi. During that time, my Kasa automatic lights stopped working. When I got home, I deleted this app and switched to IFTTT.

Stringify was better than everything, but it’s no longer available. this app has reliably of smart devices for 20 years ago. Pass on Yonomi and get something more reliable.

This is a terrible app, and by no means a substitute for the amazing Stringify app. Yonomi can barely handle simple on/off instructions.

I had a couple of routines to turn on lights at specific times and maybe half of them would be on. Many times, none of the lights would be on. My breaking point came when at 2 AM the other night, several of my lights started to randomly turn on and off, for hours at a time. They only stopped once I deleted the Yunomi app from my ipad.

Terrible, terrible, terrible app. Stay away and don't download.

In Stringify I could turn on hue lights when my Nest cam saw a person, wait 12 minutes, turn lights off. When I go to set up a routine with Yonomi and select my Nest Cam, the only options I see are “Set Home” and “Set Away”. Might be more appropriate for my Nest thermostat, but useless for the cam. IFTTT will turn on lights when cam sees motion, but that switches on lights every time a car goes by - useless. Where is smart home support for Nest?..... interested in buying new low cost Wyze smart bulbs, but, again, no Wyze support.

I downloaded and signed up before reading details. (Bad me) I see that Yonomi has not been updated in 9Mo. In this world of IoT and agile, that is a very bad sign. And I just read that the company was acquired in January. I would not expect updates any time soon. Too bad. You would think some company would cash in on being a smart home app aggregator.

While there are some specific devices that are supported that other apps don’t, all my light switches are Leviton and not supported. Having the “only if” option is nice but I can’t find any way to track multiple people from the household to automate only when the last person leaves or the first person arrives home. There is virtually no documentation or tutorials for anything more complex than making a light come on or a speaker play music. With Stringify being gone in a few months, there is a huge hole to fill. These guys should step it up or someone else has a great opportunity to.

Stringify had great intuitive complex routine setup. They had the ability to add time delays in events. I was able to deal with those missing items when I was forced away from Stringify.

However, I have been giving this app the old college try for the last 6 months and I can’t deal with it sending notifications on Insteon routines when it feels like it. It will work for a couple days and then not for a few days and then will for a couple again.

Gotta find something else. Man I miss Stringify.

We are having issues with Yonomi crashing. It just started a few days ago and we cannot open it on any of our devices now. We tried deleting and reinstalling however that did not work. Anyone else having a similar problem?

I set up a routine to set specific temp everyday at specific time. And the routine just doesn’t take action. I can go in and play routine and it would take action immediately but would not automatically take action at set time.

If they fix this issue, I would give them 5/5 star because it would be most organized and User friendly app.

I have to give this a three because the routines don’t always work. It works fine controlling lights selected as “things” but when I have lights in routines, often the lights won’t turn on or off as expected. This makes it very difficult to use Yonomi with apple shortcuts, as the only way to control lights with shortcuts is through routines. It can take up to five minutes for a routine to trigger sometimes, but “things” trigger automatically. So if you want to reliably control your lights with Siri without significant lag, this might not be the way to go.

Great app. It solved my issue with google home not being compatible with my Sonos speakers. Only thing is that the shuffle feature does not work. When you want to set the music to shuffle it doesn’t. Please fix. Only reason for 4 stars instead of 5. please please please

One of my favorite apps for Hue lights. Works consistently, and use it with Alexa to change multiple rooms of lights. Two things I would like to see though. Transition times for the routines for Hue. The only other thing is a small complaint, but I don’t like the sliders to change numbers. This could definitely be easier to get a specific setting. But overall a great app

I’ve had some good luck with setting room lighting and sound for different times of the day. Hope to see some updates with this app. Not sure if this app is compatible with the Playbase. Would be fun if this app could capture current device settings to help make routines easier.

Thank you so much for brokering a fix to my problem with Alexa volume control not handling my Sonos sound until I have the music on and blaring!

Excellent, easy, setup was intuitive and fast—15 minutes and it worked immediately!

This might be the best automation app I’ve seen. It can connect to multiple apps, run multiple tasks from the same app or different ones and you can program it to do everything at once. That’s incredibly powerful....connects to my Harmony, Hue and August Apps for some of the commands I’ve configured it with.

I have a scene configured where it unlocks my door, turns on 16 lights, turns on my tv and sound bar at the same time. I have a SiRi shortcut setup with this and it’s incredible. I also have the home hub so it’s all accessible remotely for me as well.

I’m a fan of Yonomi. No, it doesn’t support every brand of IoT device out there, but that’s on the maker of that device people not this app. Stop griping because it doesn’t support SmartThings...that’s on Samsung. Duh. What it does support, it does well and reliably for me so far. I love the Apple Watch interface as well. Like being able to run a routine from my watch through this app when I come back from walking my dogs to unlock my door, turn on my lights and TV. Pretty cool. The geofencing is like other apps and I’m not sure how to set a tighter radius for my liking on that but still a cool feature for most.