Switchmate Smart Lighting (Original)

The Switchmate app allows you to interact with our ORIGINAL* Switchmate! Switchmate is a device that you can snap onto existing light/wall switches, making them smartphone enabled in seconds! Our app allows you to easily setup, configure & connect to your Switchmate devices including turning on/off, setting preferences like timers and Welcome Home, and more!

*For SWMbright (Motion Activated Switchmate) and SWMpower devices use our "Switchmate" 3.0 App! The Original Switchmate is not yet supported on the 3.0 App however WILL be transitioned in the coming days with an app and firmware update, hang tight!

Features:
- Control your existing light switches
- Timers: automatically turn your lights on and off at preset times
- Welcome Home: automatically turn on switches of your choosing when you get home
- Updates: get over the air firmware updates for your Switchmate device(s) to make sure you have the latest/greatest (first firmware update is coming SOON!)
- *New* Voice Control: Use the mic icon in the app to control your lights with your voice, see below for more details!

We are constantly improving and adding new features and would love to hear your feedback, we're listening!
Feedback/Suggestions? reqs@switchmatehome.com

Some of the Features we're working on:
- Our first Firmware Update: Major improvements across the board for your Switchmates!
- Google Home & Alexa Direct Compatibility (no more requiring our partners hubs for this!)
- Widgets: Add them to your Home Screen so you don't have to open the app to toggle switches or use voice commands!
- Grouping: Create & control groups of devices together.
- Timeout: Automatically turn off a switch after X amount of time!
- Android Wear: Because who doesn't want to use their watch to do all this?
- API & Tasker/IFTTT Plugins: Per your requests, we're still in the early planning stages on this one but we're working on it!

Voice Control Feature:
You can click the Microphone icon in the app and simply say your command - voice activation tries to first match by the switch name that shows in your list of devices (and you can change under Device Settings), but if it can't find that it will try to match to the location you selected when you first setup your Switchmate(s). And you can even use "all" to control all switches within range! Here are some examples:
"Turn Kenny's Room light off"
"Turn on my living room lights"
"Turn all my lights off"
"Bedroom on"

We covered a good amount of variation in voice commands but if you find one that doesn't work definitely let us know and we'll see what we can do to get it added in!

Permissions:
- Location data is used so that we can tell when you're nearing home for the Welcome Home feature in order to optimize battery (so we're not looking for Switchmates all the time!). This data is often cached from other apps and we simply grab that data so in most cases we aren't making new location checks!
- Background Service & Waking your device permissions are also used for Welcome Home so we can ping your Switchmate to let it know you're home without the app needing to be open.
- Internet permissions are used for checking for firmware updates (coming soon with a lot of new features!)
- Bluetooth & WiFi permissions are required for communicating with your Switchmate devices.

Requirements:
- Original Switchmate Device of course!
- Android 4.4.4 is required so we can use Bluetooth Low Energy in order to save a lot of battery!

Recent changes:
v2.6.1
- In App Voice Commands! (see below)
- Misc Bugfixes & Improvements
- (v2.6.1) Fixed bug experienced by a small number of users unable to set timers under the new Settings UI in certain cases

You can now use voice commands to control your Switchmates, give it a try with the switch names you can customize or the location names! Examples:
"Turn on Living Room lights"
"Turn on my porch light"
"Turn all my lights off"

Keep an eye out for many exciting new features & updates coming soon!