Great Tuya based Smart Gear
Mercator Ikuu is some of the best available smart home equipment with the largest range of devices available in Australia. App needs timers for remote controls set up for IR blasters not just scheduled times.
Aweful
My experience with it, it failed to pair devices in either mode. Yet home assistant paired it first go - pretty bad when something as terrible as home assistant beats the native app. On the good side though, it doesn’t force you to sign up to Chinese communist party to use the app.
Bad just bad
No more to say - bad
Crashes when creating an Schedule Automation
App seems like a copy of Tuya and other brands using the Tuya hardware. Keeps on crashing when simply creating a schedule automation. Every time I select a day the whole list doubles up in terms of they days. I select another day and it crashes.
Reasonable implementation
The app itself is easy enough to use, a little clunky around the edges and some things not super intuitive but it does everything you need it to once you figure it out. Saves scenes are picked up by Google assistant without issue (tip - ask Google assistant to “sync devices” to force an update).
The app detected all my products with no issues, control of Zigbee items is pretty much instant as it should be.
My only gripe is the scenes page take a good 10 seconds or so to load after opening the app.
Would also be nice to be able to use the current state of all the lights or groups of lights to start setting up a scene. The process is very manual at the moment.
With some improvements and ongoing updates i think this can be a bery solid smart product eco-system.
The app detected all my products with no issues, control of Zigbee items is pretty much instant as it should be.
My only gripe is the scenes page take a good 10 seconds or so to load after opening the app.
Would also be nice to be able to use the current state of all the lights or groups of lights to start setting up a scene. The process is very manual at the moment.
With some improvements and ongoing updates i think this can be a bery solid smart product eco-system.
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