# openHAB V1 — user reviews > 39 indexed App Store user reviews of openHAB V1 by openHAB Foundation e. V., rated 4.00/5 from 40 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/openhab-v1/id492054521/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/openhab-v1/id492054521.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 23 · 4★ 9 · 3★ 1 · 2★ 0 · 1★ 7 ## Newest reviews (10 of 39) ### 4/5 — No multiple OpenHAB locations?? *2022-11-05, version 2.4.54* The app is very stable and works brilliantly in fairness but one massive drawback and criticism is that it only supports and points to one OpenHAB installation pointing to only one server. If you wanted to monitor two locations or properties with two or more OpenHAB installations this app won’t support it?? Surely it wouldn’t be that complicated to have this feature and you could have a location profile? This feature is a definite must have!! ### 3/5 — No more sitemaps *2022-07-28, version 2.4.52* Sitemaps stopped working with the 2.4.52 update. ### 4/5 — Thank you for maintaining this app! *2022-07-26, version 2.4.52* It would be great if the iPad’s version could support split view, so that we can open our OpenHAB panel as a swipeable side app that is always ready to be opened 🙏 ### 4/5 — All good except… *2022-01-27, version 2.4.36* Really good and solid App. Only improvement would be to have more entries in the notification tab. That‘s limited to only 20 entries. ### 4/5 — Super Powerful! if you know what you are doing *2021-04-20, version 2.4.20* For me using this with myopenhab and shortcuts on my iPhone opened a world of remote possibilities. I don’t use the app other than for the Shortcuts integration, so I can have quick access to some of my devices. It took several attempts to authenticate with myopenhab, but once it did it has been rock solid. I am amazed that this service is provided for free because many other providers charge for it. Great job with the App! ### 4/5 — Image not refreshing *2017-11-28, version 2.0.0* The new version 2.0.0 fixes a problem with image being squeezed into one row intermittently. But now image is not refreshing, even though refresh param is set (2000 ms for instance). So user has to pull down to refesh the image. Could you fix this issue? ### 3/5 — Great app, split view broken *2017-05-04, version 1.7.5* This is a great app if you have OpenHab. Unfortunately the current version seems to have broken IOS split view multitasking. ### 4/5 — WebView Bug? *2017-04-26, version 1.7.5* First, thank you very much for the time and effort you put into this app. It's a "more than adequate" companion to the OpenHAB web interface...BUT...I was hoping Webview camera setups and Webview graph displays (Grafana/InfluxDB) would actually render with this update?.?. :/ ### 4/5 — Great interface to OpenHAB *2017-02-11, version 1.7.4* Works perfectly, but it does require having an OpenHAB server running at your residence. Setup is fairly straightforward- and help can always be found on the community support forum. Would love to see an Apple Watch app come with this app though! -1 star for lack of support for the Apple Watch. ### 1/5 — Complete Waste of Time *2016-12-04, version 1.7.4* Good luck ever getting this to work. It's the usual incompetent hack put together by FOSS types, and utterly uninterested in usability. You can't do anything in the app till you register at their web site. After poking around their for fifteen minutes you'll eventually find what looks like a registration page except in addition to the usual email/password info it wants you to supply a "shared secret" and a "UUID" -- and good luck knowing what it expects either of those to be. Once you get past that hurdle, you can log in via the iOS app? Oh no. Apparently you now need to configure some URLs in the app. After making various guesses as to what these were, I was rewarded, on each attempt, with sme sort of failure message. At this point I gave up and concluded that life was really too short to deal with these people any longer. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Blank Page *2024-09-08, version 2.4.57* The update from version 2.4.56 to version 2.4.57 no longer shows my home sitemap. I get a blank page. The new replacement app also has the same issue. ### 1/5 — OpenHAB crashes immediately when starting the app *2022-11-12, version 2.4.54* Running IOS 15.7.1 and OpenHAB crashes at startup. It dies immediately after flashing a white options pop up that I think might be asking me to report a problem. But it disappears so fast I can’t tell for sure. I’m running (or trying to) the latest version from about a week ago. ### 1/5 — 5months old? *2022-01-18, version 2.4.36* No mainui support dispite OH3 being out for ages. Come on seriously ### 1/5 — Crap *2021-09-18, version 2.4.36* There is absolutely nothing to this app except a search bar that doesn’t search anything. No instructions, no menu (well there is the settings menu that doesn’t give you any real choices). ### 1/5 — Non functional:( *2021-06-11, version 2.4.20* Demo mode returns black screen. Connecting to a local server also. Shame, OpenHAB is awesome! ### 1/5 — Appears dead *2021-04-15, version 2.4.20* Just shows a blank screen and a search bar even in demo mode. Searching does nothing either. ### 1/5 — Latest update not working with my Openhab 1 system *2019-08-15, version 2.1.0* Latest update had broken this completely for me now. It just won't connect. Browser connection to my openhab server still working fine. I know in running an older version of the server but I bet I'm not the only one. ### 1/5 — hasn't been updated in more than a year= absndoned project= probably just harvesting data *2018-12-19, version 2.0.2* hasn't been updated in more than a year= absndoned project= probably just harvesting data ### 1/5 — Crash at opening. *2017-11-29, version 2.0.0* This OS11 version crash on opening don’t install it!!!!! ### 1/5 — Broke connecting locally *2017-11-26, version 2.0.0* Connecting to local URL broken ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Best automation app *2024-02-21, version 2.4.56* The best automation app that I’ve been using for years. I just would like the developers to work more on Apple like CarPlay or Apple Watch, everything else nice work! ### 5/5 — Works well *2021-01-05, version 2.4.20* App is been stable for More than a year now ### 5/5 — Long overdue! *2019-08-17, version 2.1.4* This is a fantastic update for the iOS version! Fixing the Setpoint values is much appreciated. Search bar is also an awesome feature! And a little formatting touch up certainly doesn’t hurt. Adds a slightly updated look. ### 5/5 — Great app! *2017-11-30, version 2.0.1* I’m giving this app 5 stars because it completes an OpenHAB implementation nicely. However since 2.0.0, setpoints display as 0. The workaround is to use a decimal step value in the sitemap (e.g. 1.5 instead of 1). Please fix this bug. ### 5/5 — Openhab 2.0.1 *2017-11-30, version 2.0.1* New update fixed the crashing when it tried connecting remotely with a local address set. Thanks for that. Setpoint readouts are still showing zero when they’re not suppose to. The buttons still change the value when referencing it from a web browser but it still reads zero in the app. ### 5/5 — Work great *2017-04-03, version 1.7.4* Works great. I love the phone app ### 5/5 — App works great for those already using OpenHAB *2017-03-02, version 1.7.4* If you are already an user of OpenHAB, this app is a good addition to the web version. This is not for newbies. There are reviews here complaining how the App is difficult to setup and what not. This is not an app for people who knows nothing about OpenHAB. If you want a do it for me solution, go with the Samsung SmartThings. If you want a do it myself solution, give OpenHAB (the web version) a try first. ### 5/5 — Openhab is the way to go *2016-12-27, version 1.7.4* Openhab is the way to go if you want to automate your home and want to integrate different brand of home intelligence devices. But you need to be patient, because it take some time to figure out how it works. ### 5/5 — Great new version! *2016-10-28, version 1.7.2* It now supports my.openHAB notification history and have a nice navigation drawer! 👍 It would be nice to update screenshots though 😃 ### 5/5 — Complex but a good app! *2016-10-28, version 1.7.1* Openhab isn't easy to setup but once it's working it's great! --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-07-05.*