Products · Broad category
Smart home apps
Raised as a usability problem by 11 people on Hacker News over 11 years (2015–2025), in 11 threads.
This is a broad category rather than one product, so its issues aren't ranked on the home page.
People raised many different problems with Smart home apps, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 11 complaints
- Buttons shift position after a second, so taps land on the wrong item and force exiting2025-12-30
- Cannot disable Smart App Control for a single app; turning it off is irreversible without reinstalling Windows2025-11-20
- Basic household actions force phone use, and random passcodes replace simple buttons2025-04-20
- The bed's iOS app is frustrating to use2025-02-22
- Boiler app is atrocious; can't temporarily turn on without changing schedule2023-05-07
- Overriding automations from the phone takes quite a few steps2023-02-02
- App repeatedly re-asks privacy opt-out and cannot default to the user's own side, causing mis-adjustments2022-01-31
- Apps randomly log the user out, forcing repeated logins and passwords2021-11-24
- Connecting to the clock and needing an account to use the device is a bad experience2019-11-04
- Dialing in light settings via app is cumbersome and may crash2016-03-04
- Lighting takes many taps and waits to do what a switch does instantly2015-09-25