Useless
Most useless app.
Response from developer
Dear Bejeweled less, we are disappointed that you had a bad experience with our product, and we would like to change it into a positive one. Please afford us the opportunity to do so by sending us an email with your contact details to astute@cbi-electric.com and our support team will address your problem. Best regards, The CBi-electric: low voltage Team
Excellent App!
I have found the app to be very easy to use, to add new devices, to configure and set smart scenes to control my entire Smart Home! This works icw my Solar PV setup, Grid sensor, Geyser management, and with other benefits of load management!
Geyser tuner
The most difficult device you can ever find in the hardware, wow
2stars for your weather accuracy
I like the idea behind your application to allow certain actions/scenes depending on weather. However your weather is showing sunny when it's rainy and cloudy. It's just you and that smart home app... Use a better weather service.
Good Idea
The app is a good idea. To control your devices in one place, set automation tasks and have everything work without intervention. However, the app is very buggy. The most recent bug: I turn my geyser off on the app, when I refresh the app, it shows as on again. And also, when you report these bugs on the app, you get no response at all
Edit: today I cannot switch on the geyser. The logs say the devices was turned on and off at the right time, but the water is cold. Turning it on manually, it fails and now my visitors are stuck with cold water.
Edit: today I cannot switch on the geyser. The logs say the devices was turned on and off at the right time, but the water is cold. Turning it on manually, it fails and now my visitors are stuck with cold water.
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Great Wireless Switch
Have been using multiple CBI Astute Switches over the last few years.
It seems most of the issues some of the people have complained about have been resolved:
1. Multiple devices can be controlled by adding them to a group.
2. Adding the device to Alexa or Google Assistant can be done by clicking the rename icon on the device and selecting the integration.
To the delevoper, the following improvements would be amazing for my use:
1. Setting daily power use limits would really help in saving electricity. I've tried creating a scene to turn off a device using the "Increase electricity > xkW" scenario, but it doesn't seem to work.
2. If there were a "Power Status" feature in a scene for a device to detect load shedding for example, I could use it to turn other devices off as well to preserve battery life.
It seems most of the issues some of the people have complained about have been resolved:
1. Multiple devices can be controlled by adding them to a group.
2. Adding the device to Alexa or Google Assistant can be done by clicking the rename icon on the device and selecting the integration.
To the delevoper, the following improvements would be amazing for my use:
1. Setting daily power use limits would really help in saving electricity. I've tried creating a scene to turn off a device using the "Increase electricity > xkW" scenario, but it doesn't seem to work.
2. If there were a "Power Status" feature in a scene for a device to detect load shedding for example, I could use it to turn other devices off as well to preserve battery life.
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Can’t link to Google Home
Advertised to link to google home or google assistant. But can’t. Don’t get the options as per instructions.
App keeps ons switching timers off.
The app is no good when it keeps on disabling my timers.
Doesn’t load google home
No matter what I have tried to do to link it to google home I can’t. The instructions say it will load google home but doesn’t?
I have also tried adding it via the google home app by searching for astute as per instructions and it’s not listed.
It’s a CBI astute switch. Any help would be appreciated. Other than that great app, would just be nice to have them all in one app. Thanks.
I have also tried adding it via the google home app by searching for astute as per instructions and it’s not listed.
It’s a CBI astute switch. Any help would be appreciated. Other than that great app, would just be nice to have them all in one app. Thanks.
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One Request
Please add widget functionality?
Leonard is awesome
Thanks Leonard for your help! I’ll update you if my water is hot tomorrow but it sounds promising!
Brilliant
The most useful combo of hardware and software that I have in operation. Super value, amazing functionality.
One wish: in the “Electric” function, please extend the granularity to 1 hour periods. This will allow detecting points of energy wastage much more accurately, and so increase the value to the user.
One wish: in the “Electric” function, please extend the granularity to 1 hour periods. This will allow detecting points of energy wastage much more accurately, and so increase the value to the user.
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iOS Notifications
CBI home app only has options to allow Location, Bluetooth, Local Network, Camera, Siri & Search and Mobile Data. No option to enable notifications, I don’t receive notifications on my iPhone.
There’s no where to enable notifications, not even in the iPhone’s notifications settings, CBI Home app is not listed. Otherwise very useful.
There’s no where to enable notifications, not even in the iPhone’s notifications settings, CBI Home app is not listed. Otherwise very useful.
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Alerts via SMS
It would be very useful if the app could be configured to issues alerts via SMS or Whatsspp. Am I missing something.
Good functionality, poor UI
Really like the functionality around the ability to control my geyser. However, the graphs of past electricity usage are pathetic. The scale makes it impossible to see trends. I use 50kwh for my geyser in a month, not a day.
Home Tab indication
Latest version of the app on iPhone removed the ability to see if the ASI or ASC is on or off. This worked well to check at a glance if all is in or off. Now one has to selecr the device before that is possible.
Not functional
Notifications do not work. Reinstalled app twice. Deleted and added switches twice. Restarted my phone twice. Notifications on the app and phone settings are active. Also the schedules/timers are stored on the phone app and not in the device so if your wifi is down the schedules will not work.
Works but…
Please give us the ability to link multiple timers. Setting and changing schedules daily for each timer individually to accommodate daily blackout cycle changes is a massive pain. Im about to throw mine out just because of this.
Astute breakers
The product itself works well, but sometimes does not recover following a power failure. Not sure if this is device related or network related, but often needs manual start.
Power on state setting
Please fix power on state so iPhone users can see the setting
