ClareHome

Clare Development

About this app

Welcome to your new smart and secure home! The ClareHome App gives your family remote access to your ClareOne system, allowing you to manage security, see the status of your connected smart devices, and control smart home features. Available for iOS and Android, the app can be fully personalized by each member of the family to fit their lifestyle and preferences. ClareOne supports hundreds of popular devices that can be controlled from your ClareHome App. From smart locks and garage door openers to thermostats, speakers, lighting, and many more. Your smart home is just a tap away.

Features:
• With the Favorites screen, each user can fully customize device control tiles and specialty widgets such as security, scenes, lights, and thermostats.
• Did we mention widgets? You can add quick access widgets to your smartphone home screen, giving you quick access to your favorite device in the ClareHome App.
• Add popular voice assistants such as Google Assistant or Amazon Alexa for voice-enabled controls of your smart home features.
• Create custom scenes to control multiple devices at once.
• Add schedules to automate your life, from ensuring the garage is closed at night, to setting the temperature when you come home from work.
• Create powerful automations that can turn your lights on when you open the door.
• Custom notifications can be created that alert you about important events.
• Works with popular devices from brands like SONOS, HEOS, Chamberlain, Lutron, Philips Hue, Jasco, Yale, Google Assistant, Amazon Alexa, Overhead Garage Door, Ecobee, Honeywell, Schlage, Kwikset, and more!

Ratings and reviews

The new app layout and design were a bit of a surprise and at first I didn't care for it. However after a day or two I warmed up to it. Now I wouldn't go back. I have had the occasional issue with my thermostats but after contacting Clare support and digging a bit, I've found that it is actually an issue with the cloud service provided by the thermostat manufacturer and nothing to do with Clare. Their support team helped me remedy those issues, all good now. Outstanding support!!

When arming away from app, it'll arm in a stay mode. Activity is accessible from keypad and you can even delete it even when the system is armed. (Defeats all purposes of pictures). Alarm reporting is only 1st zone triggered. Alarm notification comes in as regular notification, it should be a bit more alarming. Work in progress, got a lot of potential.

Its hard to critique the app without also critiquing the hardware side of things but I'll try, and I hope the developers read this. There are a few easily implementable features that are lacking. The first is a combination between "Schedule" and "Automation". I can set up an automation to do "thing (eg. turn on light)" when "triggered (e.g. motion detected)", but I cant use "schedule" to automatically enable and disable it for certain times of day (e.g. only night time). Also, automation is missing some key elements such as time delays, time modifiers (when "light is on" for "45 seconds, when "motion detector" is "not faulted" for more than 10 minutes", etc.) as well as "and" and "or" modifiers. The app only supports Clare cameras according to customer service. The camera that was installed for me has no storage, so I will never know if someone is on my front doorstep unless I just happened to be staring at the live feed at the same time. There are no "triggers" associated with the camera such as "motion detected" either. This may be more on the Hub or camera side, but so far, the camera has been pointless. I cannot even buy another camera with storage (except for the doorbell)

What's new

• Improvements to actions to make them more intuitive. Includes ability to find actions associated with specific devices.
• Users can now use the new actions that provide text to speech announcements through connected Sonos speakers. For example, send an announcement to any or all speakers when • the door to the pool area is opened.
• Expanded support for newer Jasco and Ultrapro Z-Wave lighting devices.