HomeTV2 vs Deye Cloud
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
HomeTV2
Control your television using your smartphone. This app works with SDMC set-top boxes to provide remote control functionality for your TV.
- Smartphone TV remote
- SDMC set-top box compatibility
- Remote control functionality
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HomeTV手机遥控与SDMC机顶盒相互配合，可以用手机来控制电视机。
Deye Cloud
This app facilitates the establishment, monitoring, and maintenance of new energy power stations. It offers transparent management through a big data platform, supporting various power station and equipment types for efficient operation and troubleshooting.
- Power station establishment
- Real-time data monitoring
- Operation and maintenance services
- After-sales support
- Transparent power station management
- Accurate alarm positioning
- Intelligent data analysis
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"Supporting the establishment, data acquisition, data monitoring, one-stop operation maintenance and after-sales service of all new energy power stations. Through the Deye Cloud big data platform, all types of power stations with transparent management which improves the value of power stations comprehensively. 【Rich Types of Power Stations】 Power stations can be built everywhere. Deye Cloud big data will help you to build your own photovoltaic power station in the shortest time. 【Rich Equipment Types】 breaking the traditional limitation, it can comprehensively monitor the operation of the system composed of photovoltaic, battery, fan, power grid, micro inverter, diesel generator, load, ups and smartload 【Rich Functions and Applications】 accurate alarm positioning and efficient troubleshooting；Intelligent data analysis reduces troubleshooting time；The energy flow map can grasp the direction of energy quickly; Multiple working modes to realize diversified power station management. 【Cooperate with the Merchant Version】 With power station authorization function, you can authorize the power station you created to the merchant and working together to ensure the safety and stability of the power station. Meanwhile, you can also recieve the power station from merchant which saves the operation of power station build and equipment configuration. "
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Deye Cloud at 70% against HomeTV2's 18%. Deye Cloud also leads on rating (4.8 vs 4.0) and update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 3 months). HomeTV2's advantage is iOS requirement (9.1 vs 15.1). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Deye Cloud holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Deye Cloud has 272 ratings behind it against 8, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 18% of HomeTV2's written reviews are positive against 70% of Deye Cloud's.
HomeTV2 ships an update every 3 months, Deye Cloud every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 1, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | HomeTV2 | Deye Cloud |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (8 ratings) | 4.8 (272 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 18.2% of reviews | 69.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 8 | 272 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 9.1 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 6 MB | 214 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Shenzhen SDMC Technology Co., Ltd | 萃绩科技(上海)有限公司 |
Customer experience
HomeTV2
Deye Cloud
Bugs and requests
HomeTV2
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Deye Cloud
Reported bugs
21 issues- Data from inverter isn’t live
- Push notifications not working
- No push notifications alerts
- Copilot ended up costing us £150 extra every month
- App isn’t working on IOS
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- Data is not realtime
- App does not display true total capacity
- Disconnected from the grid it sends me push notifications every minute
- Internal feedback form doesn’t work
- Localization to Ukrainian language is poor
- Data polling time is really high at 5-6 mins
- Inexplicably long periods of no data logging/indication if being offline
- Always offline from 0600hrs to 1900 hrs
- Can’t log in for the past 2 weeks!
- Account does not exist, email does not exist!
- App is logging me out and i cant sign in for few days already!
- If i try to recover password, says email does no exist!
- Region switching is gone
- Unable to log-in, login info has changed
- APP not receiving data after last update
- Network unavailable
Requested features
8 requests- Add total yield
- Suggest a third option: Force Sell Mode
- Still see load usage when selling first
- Build more servers around the world
- Dedicated app server centre in Australia
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- Add Ukrainian language
- Include data from an EV charger
- Settings to control where power goes first
In-app purchases
HomeTV2
No in-app purchases
Deye Cloud
No in-app purchases
