Ulreco - Short introduction

Hi, I am Thomas, the developer of ulreco. "ulreco" stands for "ultimate remote control" and today I will show you how to control all your wifi enabled devices in your home with one single app. In this video I will show you how to control the wifi enabled power supply called belkin wemo, the wifi enabled heater controller called eQ3-MAX!, the light system Philips Hue, a Sharp TV, Teufel Raumfeld music player and a raspberry PI running XMBX. What I have got here in my hands is a fresh installed version of ulreco right from the app store and to get started we have to set all our components. To do this you can just press on the components button in the center of the screen and now you can choose all the components you want to use. In our case its "eQ3-MAX!". And here can see it's already configured. Also I just linked the hue bridge with ulreco. For Sharp AQUOS you need some date like the ip address as you can see here. And for example, XBMC also needs some ip address to be entered and components like belkin wemo just are supported out of the box, so there is nothing to set up. So now we are ready to set up some actions. First I remove all the default buttons because I don't want them. And now I can add a new button by long pressing the empty screen. And then you see here "add control", just press it. In our case we need a button, so I press "button". And now you can set up your new button. In our case I want to turn on my lights, so I go to the philips hue section and select "turn on all lights". This action has no parameters so I just have to save the action. Then I have to save the action list. Then I have to set a new text for this button. For example „lights on". And that's it. So let's add another button to turn out the lights, same procedure as before but I choose "turn of all lights" and in this case I choose an icon. For example the power button icon. So when I now press the "lights on" button the lights should turn on. And as you can see, it works as preferred. And when I now press the power off button the lights will turn off. So as you can see, you can configure your own actions and your own buttons as you need it in your own home. So, now we are able to control our lights. And I will show your now how to control your TV, too. First we add a new button to turn on our TV. In my case it is a sharp TV so I have to choose "Turn TV on" in the sharp TV section. I use "turn on TV" as button text. And save the button. So now I have two buttons. One to turn on my lights and one to turn on my TV. And now I want the power button to turn off my TV and my lights. So I just add another action in the action list and in this case it is the "turn of TV" action from the sharp TV component. And when I save the list I have 3 buttons. One for turning on the lights. One for turning on the TV. And one button to turn off everything I set up. So let's try it! First I turn on my TV. And you can see the TV is turning on. And now I turn on my lights. Works, too. And now I press the power off button and the TV and the lights are turned off as preferred. So now I will show you the real power of ulreco. As you can see here I already added a button to turn on my music. We will need this button later. Now I will add a button to enable something like a "TV mode" in my apartment. So I label the button with "TV mode". And this button has to do a quite list of actions. So let's add them. First I want to turn off all lights. So I select the action to this. And then I want to stop the music. This is in my case the "Teufel Raumfeld" component. I select the room. Then I want to reduce my iPhone display brightness. You can do this here in the iOS device controller component. Let's set it to about 20%. And then I want to enable the philips hue lamp I attached behind my TV. So I have to turn on a single light. In this case it's called "Hinter TV", this is German for "behind the TV". And I want to color this light in a warm red. So I set the color of a single light to a nice red. This looks good to me. And of course I want to turn on my TV, so I choose the "turn on TV" button right here. And when I now press the button it should turn off all my lights, then it should stop the music, it should reduce my iPhone display brightness, it should turn on the ambilight on my TV, and it should set the color of the ambilight to red. And after this it should turn on the TV. And I think I should turn on the TV first because this takes the most time. And so we are done. And now, to show you how it works I will turn on my music. Just give me second. And then I will test the button. So have fun watching this. So now I will press the button. I hope you can hear the music. And as you can see the music is turned off, lights are turned on, the TV is turned on, and the color is set to red. So I controlled my while apartment with just a single button. Isn't that nice? So I hope you liked this video, I hope you got an idea of ulreco, it's a very powerful app, you can control at least every component in your home. And yeah, have fun controlling your own stuff. Thanks.