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Make all your smart home gadgets working in harmony with one app

Many smart home systems don’t play nicely with each other. That’s a sad fact, but it’s not something we can’t fix: Yonomi is a platform-independen­t connection tool, meant as an umbrella app to cover your entire smart home. It’s compatible with a vast list of devices, from triggers such as Alexa and Google Assistant to smart lights, sockets, and more. You’ll still need your usual apps for some functions – Yonomi can’t access Nest cam streams, because it’s a controller first and foremost. But if you want to switch something on or off, tweak brightness or temperatur­e, it’s perfect.

It’s not just the number of devices it supports that’s impressive. Yonomi’s management features extend beyond push-button control – you can use it to set routines, to be triggered however you see fit. You could fire them off with a voice command, trigger them at certain times of the day or, if you let Yonomi know where you live, when you arrive home or leave the house.

Getting started with Yonomi is as simple as downloadin­g the app onto your phone, registerin­g an account, and letting it discover your network devices. When setting your location, we’d recommend adding your usual Wi- Fi network too, just in case your phone loses track of you.

Yonomi is compatible with smart lights, sockets and more

Once you’re all registered, Yonomi drops a few sample routines into its Favourites section, lists all of your devices on its Things page, and leaves everything else to you. A routine, in Yonomi terminolog­y, doesn’t have to refer to a sequence of actions – assign the devices in a room to a routine, and you can activate or deactivate everything at once.

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With Yonomi, you can have all of your devices switch on the moment you walk through the front door

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