Savant, Crestron Release Apps for Apple Watch
While early adopters continue to opine on the virtues, weaknesses and oversights of the Apple Watch, home control companies are wasting little time releasing apps to give customers another way to turn down the temperature without having to buy an…
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expensive touch-screen remote. Savant, whose system is built on a Mac mini, launched its Watch version of the Savant app Wednesday. Savant system users can see which services in their home are in use or activate scenes such as “Away” that they’ve created using their smartphone or tablet apps, the company said. Before the end of the month, Savant will release an updated version of the Savant app that has new features, including notifications delivered via Savant’s Plus secure cloud service, Savant said. Users will be able to let homeowners create system notifications and receive alerts while they’re away to monitor temperature or lighting changes via their Watch, for example, it said. Crestron’s Precision control is also now available for Apple Watch, the company said. Crestron users can access common commands and scenes such as unlocking a door or changing a music playlist, and other control options cover lighting and temperature adjustments, it said. Meanwhile, 9 percent of U.S. broadband households plan to buy a smart watch in the next 12 months, said a Parks Research report. Fitness tracking led the list of planned or preferred activities that prospective smart watch owners intended to undertake with their smart watch, followed by checking weather, listening to music, making and receiving phone calls, paying by phone and controlling smart home devices, said Parks.