New in iConnectHue 4.6
Good news, everyone: iConnectHue now supports the brand new Hue Wall Switch module! With it, we also bring great new stuff for your existing Hue Smart Button and Lutron Aurora!
These are the changes:
The Hue Wall Switch Module
Beginning now you can set up you Wall Switch Module with all of iConnectHue’s capabilities:
- Multiple presses to switch e.g. between scenes
- Switch by day and night
- Switch depending on time frame
- Switch by weekend (optional w/ weekend mode)
Since we wished the module to be capable to do more we taught it more:
- You can set up up to 5 instead of 3 slots
- You toggle on/off even if there is another alternation already set up (the group-on-state alternation currently must be set up last!)
- In case of a rocker switch, you can decide by yourself whether to toggle off between steps or at end
- Many functions can be set up even quicker by the wizard
- It uses less resources when set up with iConnectHue
Because of the module we reworked our switch editor in many places significantly, so you can toggle on/off and have other actions at the same time on the same switch. Since we thought this might be handy also for other single button switches, we offer this functionality for the Hue Smart Button and Lutron Aurora as well..
We invested a lot of effort and time into these new functions, therefore we offer them in the “2021 Upgrade”, which combines current and other small improvements of this year into one handy package. As always, these new functions are included for our members as well as for our recent customers who bought iConnectHue recently – back to 1st of March 2021. For clearer overview, we renamed the existing “Level 1 Upgrade” to “2020 Upgrade”.
Pro Improvements
Our Pro members can now easily change the group brightness when in group overview: Just hold your finger on your group (or use Force Touch with Force-capable devices), lift the finger shortly – the slider appears just under your finger – and put it down again to slide-change your brightness.
Additional improvements
- With the 2021 Upgrade, sleep timers on switches can now be restarted (only those that turn off at end; Edit existing actions to take the changes over)
- You can now opt to increase or decrease relative brightness when adding this action – which should help you with rotated Friends-of-Hue switches
- Improvements in remote access setup
- Simplified setup of Group-On-Alternations
- We improved several details