Vera Alerts was a house & home app developed by Richard T. Schaefer. It was removed from Google Play Apr 26, 2024 and is no longer available for download.
Download Statistics
Vera Alerts had been downloaded 14 thousand times before it became unavailable.
User Ratings
Vera Alerts was rated 3.76 out of 5 stars, based on 140 ratings.
App Information
Vera Alerts was free to download. The APK download size was 1.01 MB. The last available version was 7.13. The last update was on June 17, 2019.
Technical Requirements
Vera Alerts required Android 4.0+ or higher. The app had a content rating of Everyone. The app had been available on Google Play November 2012.
Description
Vera Alerts provides notification of events that were originated from your Vera Home Automation system and delivered to your Android phone.
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★★★★★
huge delays on notificarions started about 3 weeks ago. sent email to richard hoping to hear back. all was working great until then. i think its the phone app when it goes to sleep. delays are as ling as 7 min, but almost i stant when phone is on and app in foreground and i send test messages. makes app nearly useless. i will change back to 5 stars when this is resolved. updated 6/19:. seems like the last update improves the timing. awesome job, Richard!
★★★★★
Works great for me on my Vera lite. Only part of the setup that I got stuck on for a few mins was that I didn't realize that I had to hit the register button in the app to start receiving alerts from Vera. Much better then the Vera email notifications!
★★★★★
Overhelming Advantages Great App which basically allows to do everything I expect from a Home Automation Notification System. Overhelming advantages compared to the vera build in notifications.
★★☆☆☆
No longer works. Stopped working beginning of February.
★★☆☆☆
What a waste of time This app MIGHT work, or more likely not. I have a Vera edge with UI7, and the sparse instructions seem to be made for a previous device and are so out of date that they are misleading. What a mess, what a waste. Worthless, or even worth less than cost of app (nothing).
★★☆☆☆
Broken in 6.0 Was good, supplements Vera's alerts. Two main issues - horribly slow to open due to it trying to load ALL alerts first and it's no longer working on 6.0.1. Time to move to Homeseer...
★★☆☆☆
Very high battery consumption Works fine, but after months of use I finally found it was responsible for 50% of my battery usage, and that's without even using the app. And occasionally it gets into a mode where it draws much more, depleting my battery in just a few hours. Unacceptable.
★★☆☆☆
Had to Uninstall It keeps repeating "Version expired" in a loud voice with no explanation or a way to fix the problem. The did not even sent me a notification just a loud voice.
Technologies used by Vera Alerts
Vera Alerts is requesting 10 permissions and is using 6 libraries.
Permissions
Development tools
test access to protected storage
Network communication
view network connections,
view Wi-Fi connections,
full network access,
receive data from Internet
Each subscription will automatically renew 3 days before the expiration date for
the same time period. Subscriptions can be cancelled at any time before the renewal.
AdMob
Android Jetpack core
Firebase
Google Cloud Messaging (GCM)
Google Maps SDK
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