Chris Redrich
@chrisredrich · Product Management Leader
Great work on the app! As a user of the Philips Hue bridge, I can confirm you are solving a complex but very valuable problem in the home automation space.
While I love the innovation in this space, we're definitely barely making the jump from early adopters to the early majority. The technology is just still too difficult to setup, use, and troubleshoot on a daily basis for the mass markets.
Stringify is doing a decent job at bringing it to a level for general consumers. It is a very hard balance between the freedom that allows deep customization and making it simple enough to figure out. I imagine your app is a lot like what will be needed to make Apple HomeKit usable for general consumers.
As a person that understands tech, I want to build complex workflows like "turn on the lights when I arrive, but only if nobody in my family is home."
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Kris Linquist
@klinquist · Engineering @ Stringify
@chrisredrich Thanks for the compliments Chris! Regarding your complex flow - we don't support location from multiple iOS devices (yet), but with SmartThings presence tags you could easily do what you describe today in Stringify!
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