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This app is designed for both iPhone and iPad

Price: $9.99

Category: Lifestyle

Updated: Apr 21, 2012

Version: 1.4.0

Size: 9.9 MB

Language: English

Seller: Cyphersoft, LLC

Rated 4+

Requirements: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad.Requires iOS 4.2 or later.


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Roomie Remote by Cyphersoft, LLC

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Description

Roomie controls your home theater components from your iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch. Roomie is a universal remote supporting thousands of devices often via direct communication over your home network rather than requiring additional hardware. Roomie also provides a personalized TV guide, and shows live feedback for many devices with information like your receiver's volume.

In App Purchases
Infrared Control Pack: Upgrade to support infrared devices when combined with an adapter available from the Roomie Store.
Home Theater Pack: Upgrade to support unlimited devices in unlimited rooms from its initial support for up to 2 devices in 1 room.
HD Guide Pack: Upgrade from 1 day to 2 full weeks of TV listings and a full screen guide for iPad.

Important: Control of infrared components requires the Infrared Control Pack available in Roomie and an adapter available from the Roomie Store. Roomie also supports many devices via direct control over your network with no adapter. Check the Roomie website for detailed compatibility information.

Features
Extensive Device Support: Over 80,000 commands for thousands of devices.
Direct IP with Automatic Discovery: Supports hundreds of devices with no adapter required communicating over your Wi-Fi network. Roomie provides advanced two-way feedback support, and most devices are found automatically on your network without requiring line of sight to your components.
Infrared Support: High-end home theater code library supports virtually all components.
IP Receivers: Support for Denon, Integra, Marantz, Onkyo, Pioneer, Yamaha, and more. Unlike traditional IR solutions, Roomie knows the receivers volume, power, mute, input, and mode status showing live feedback for these aspects of your system.
IP Media Players: Integration with TiVo, Roku, WD TV, Plex, Boxee, Dune, Sony SMP, WMC, XBMC, and a growing list of other devices including DirecTV Satellite receivers with live channel info. Roomie even provides keyboard support in most cases and full graphical channel integration for Roku and WD TV.
Blu-ray Feedback: Provides interactive position scrubbing and elapsed time displays for Panasonic, Pioneer, and Oppo Blu-ray Players.
IP TVs: Sharp, Elite, Samsung, Panasonic, and Sony TV IP control. JVC Projector control.
IP Lighting: Insteon and Lutron Radio Ra 2 IP lighting control.
Original Remote: Sometimes it's hard to separate yourself from a particular remote layout. So don't. Roomie includes many popular remotes re-created with high-quality images specifically for iOS.
Virtual Remote: Roomie provides a virtual remote control for any supported device, automatically optimizing each remote for iOS. Roomie provides all of the commands from your original remote and often more advanced commands including "discrete" power on and off.
Integrated TV Schedules: Roomie provides integrated television listings for US, UK, Canada, Germany, France, and 12 other countries (see Roomie website) including personalization of channel listings with favorite channels, and integrates your personalized listings with your devices to tune your channels directly. TV listings include program details, graphics, and full cast and crew credits.
Advanced Macros and Automation: Advanced macros can be created for precise control over your systems. Using the extensive command library, Roomies macros can sequence complex command timing over multiple types of connection precisely and easily to automate high-end home theaters, multiple rooms, or houses.
Serial(RS-232) Support: Rock solid serial support when combined with a Roomie Serial adapter.
Remote Customization: Buttons can be created, removed, and customized to your liking.
Dropbox/iTunes Synchronization: Configurations can be synchronized with your other iOS devices locally via iTunes or to the cloud on Dropbox.

What's New in Version 1.4.0

New Features in 1.4.0:
• Multipanning Personalized Guide: Program discovery has never been more powerful. The new personalized guide enhanced for Retina displays includes detailed show information, next showing schedules, credits, and informative biography sections on cast and crew.
• Retina-enhanced iPad Interface: Full support for 3rd generation iPad graphics has been added across the entire app!
• HD Guide Pack: New in-app purchase expands the guide to full-screen on iPad screens and allows a full two weeks of guide tracking!
• Centralized Guide: Guide setup and personalization has been redesigned and made much simpler.
• iPad Panning Interface: The iPad interface has been significantly improved with panning screen management.
• Custom Backgrounds: Custom background images can now be added to Remote Designs.

New Devices:
• Panasonic TV IP Control: Auto-discovery and control of Panasonic VIERA TVs.
• Samsung Blu-ray IP Control: Auto-discovery and control of Samsung Blu-ray players.
• See the Roomie website for supported models.

Improvements:
• Prevent Editing: New option in Settings allows lock down of all Editing throughout Roomie to prevent unintended configuration changes.
• Pandora Yamaha Integration: Yamaha 2010+ receivers now feature integration with Pandora, Napster, SIRIUS, and other services displaying song, album, and station information.
• TiVo Forced Channels: TiVo channel changes can now be forced, asking whether to cancel recording in order to change a channel if needed.
• Insteon ISY99 Lookup: Configuring commands for ISY99 devices now allows selection from all known lights or scenes rather than requiring manual entry.
• Access to compatibility and video tutorials is now provided inside the Settings panel.
• Virtual Remotes on iPad size screens are no longer left-aligned in any orientation.
• Boxee, Plex, and XBMC control now allows explicit volume control directly via IP to the player.
• Marantz SR9600/SR5001 receivers and similar models from the era prior to the Denon protocol merge are now supported for feedback of Power, Volume, Mute, and Input.
• Collect Diagnostics: New setting allows users to collect diagnostics about their components to send to support to aid in addition of new components and diagnosing issues with existing components.

Fixes:
• Fixed entry of some Insteon device IDs.
• Samsung TVs and Blu-ray Players may now be added via Manual IP in the rare event auto-discovery does not find them.
• Fixed automatic IP address updates for TiVos that changed name.
• Stop commands are no longer sent when activating the currently active Activity.

Many additional fixes and improvements. For detailed release notes and compatibility information, please see the Roomie website. Please note that Roomie 1.4.X will be the last release cycle to support iOS version 4 so please make a backup of this version if you will be needing that.

Customer Reviews

Integrated Home Theater Experience (5 stars)
I've tried quite a few apps for this purpose, and I'm happy to say that Roomie is highly recommended. The basic rundown is that it's capable of an amazing amount with very little effort, and is clearly built to suit the needs of even some more refined home theaters with lots of little details covered like discrete on/off codes for devices and two-way feedback (both of which are in very few other products but you will definitely wish you had

Setup a breeze compared to harmony remote (5 stars)
I've used a harmony remote for the last 3 years, and setup for a Pioneer A/V receiver, DirecTV, Panasonic blu-ray, apple TV, Xbox, and Wii was a hit or miss affair, taking many hours to tweak (configure on PC, download to remote, test, iterate xxx times). I purchased the wireless IR transmitter, and had the same setup ready to go in less than 20 minutes. It works extremely well, and I like the ability to customize the virtual remotes. Interf

Great interface, easy to setup! (5 stars)
Have used Roomie for months now. It was very quick to setup and I had a working system in minutes although I already owned the adapters it uses, it has a real interface that looks like actual design went into it and didn't require any complex programming of remotes. In addition to the remote it adds a really nice TV guide. Have spent a lot on remotes over the years and feel I've finally settled on a solution that I can maintain, will keep up

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