Peel Technologies, the visionary startup that brought mobile IoT to the forefront, is celebrating a successful journey and recent exit. With a mission to revolutionize the TV viewing experience, Peel introduced the groundbreaking Peel Smart Remote app.
This update slipped by me last week but got this notification when opening the iPhone app yesterday:
No Remote Climate yet but looking promising!
First launch on Watch had me return to the iPhone app to authenticate
Then it was live with these three screens (the kilometers is a bug):
Cool stuff!
Mobile phone continues to upgrade. It’s not only about calls, message, social media and GPS. A smartphone offers numerous benefits in everyday life. The list of benefits continues to grow longer by the day. In every few days, there is a new phone getting launched. Of course, it’s one of the reasons we change our phone and opt for an upgraded one. However, the primary reason to replace the phone is that the average lifespan of a phone is around 4-5 years and after that its performance deteriorates.
And what happens to the old phone? We generally sell them off or discontinue using them altogether. But do you know there is a better use of your old phone than selling it for a few grands? You can control your appliances using them through smart apps.Want to learn more? Here are a few apps that make your phone more valuable than you think.
Philips Hue
We get our home interiors done according to our tastes and preferences. How good it would be a lighting system in the same manner, adjustable according to the mood? Well, Philips Hue can do that for you! It’ll just use your phone.
If you have Hue lights in your home, you can organise and control lights in individual rooms using the Philips Hue app. Whether you want to relax, work, party or watch TV, the app gives you all the lighting arrangement options you can think of. After all, it gives you 16 million colour options to choose from.
Additionally, it’s location-based capabilities can identify when you reach home or leaving and turn the light on or off accordingly. You can also use your voice to control lights. Now, darkness isn’t a challenge.
Manything
Are have planning to sell your old iPhone? You may want to think again. Manything can enable it to be effective surveillance for your home.
Manything is an iOS app using which you can turn your iPhone or iPod into a security camera and be on top of all the activities happening around your house. It has smart motion sensors and which can turn on other devices upon motion alerts and your preferred setting. You can further adjust its settings for specific detection areas and camera sensitivity. Using its own IFTTT, Manything can be integrated with several web services and home appliances.
It’s easy to download and share the videos recorded on this simple-to-set-up app. You can also see them remotely on your phone.
Anymote
Leveraging infrared and Wi-fi technologies, this universal remote can control over 9,00,000 devices including TV, AC, lights, smart locks, camera etc. through your phone, and hence can easily replace almost all your physical remotes with a single handheld device.
One of the most interesting features in Anymote is macros. Macros allow you to send separate commands to multiple devices through a single tap on your phone screen. Similarly, the app can automate tasks so that you don’t even have to interact with devices. Once the setting is done, your TV won’t wait for you to mute it when you receive a phone call.
You can also control devices using voice commands to the app. Anymote is compatible with Amazon Echo and Alexa.
Peel Smart Remote App
One of the widely used remotes apps, Peel remote for Android is loaded with intelligent features, especially for home entertainment. Peel TV guide features lets you know what’s trending and what you recently watched. It also helps you find programmes by genre or category. You can even use the app to schedule your watchlist for the entire week ahead so that you don’t miss your favourite shows. Besides this, Peel remote control’s intelligent voice-recognition can understand the context of your spoken command and perform the action.
Peel IR remote is compatible with over 150 home electronics brand and more than 4,00,000 devices. Also, it can group controls of various appliances so that you can operate all of them with a single command. Now you can turn off all appliances at home and activate smart lock simply using your old Android phone.
Remote apps turn your phone from smart to smarter by adding yet another role to their portfolio of application. So, if you’re planning to buy a new phone, instead of disowning the old one, why not put it to some use, like as the single remote for your smartphone?
Has it ever happened to you that you wanted to watch something good on TV without anything specific in mind, and you ended up spending a lot of time browsing channels to the least avail? Or maybe you had been looking forward to watching a fascinating documentary for a week and you totally forgot about it?
It’s quite a common occurrence especially in urban lives where we fail to make the most out of the time we intend to spend on entertainment. The good news is that you don’t have to face this issue anymore. You have certain smart remote apps in the market today with TV guide features that help you enjoy quality time with your TV.
And among them, the most popular is Peel smart remote app. It brings you an extraordinary TV watching assistance with its intelligent TV guide.
Before we explore the multiple benefits of this feature, let’s understand what Peel is.
Peel remote app lets you control various devices simply using your Android phone or tablet. It uses the IR-capabilities of your phone and enables it to work as a universal remote control. So, you don’t have to deal with many remotes at all. In the absence of IR-blaster, it leverages your Wi-fi network to deliver the same experience.
Now, let’s go back to the Peel TV guide.
Peel smart remote is an app which understands you.
It knows what kind of programmes you may like to watch and which ones you’re likely to skip. It’s able to do so by keeping a track of the TV shows you’ve been interested in since the first day of using the app. This includes the type of programmes like movies, daily soap, games, news, sports etc. Also, it observes the genre of your interest such as thriller, comedy, documentary and so on.
Every time you open the app, you can see colourful thumbnails of various TV programmes on its home screen. These thumbnails are actually the recommendations on the basis of the understanding Peel TVapp has acquired about your viewing behaviour. If you like a recommendation, you only have to long press it to get the details about the programme. This will help you decide whether or not you would like to watch it. If it interests you, just tap on the thumbnail and it’ll take you directly on the channel the programme is running on. Do you see how much time it helps you save there?
And interestingly, the more you interact with the app, the more precise will its recommendations become. What’s even more helpful here is that you explore these thumbnails without even changing the current channel or even turning on the TV.
If you had a dedicated TV watching assistant, that would work like Peel.
You can use Peel remote app to see the trending shows, the most popular choices in specific genres and the shows you watched recently. The app also helps you find your favourite TV programmes easily. It lets you browse the channel guide and find out when specific programmes are scheduled. And under the videos section, you can see the short trailers and clips of the shows.
Besides this, you can always save programmes and set reminders for them so that you don’t forget their timings. And if you’re absolutely clear on what you’d want to watch for the next one week, you can even prepare a calendar of TV shows and set reminders for each of them. The app will keep reminding of the upcoming items on the calendar.
Therefore, if you’re using Peel smart remote, you don’t have to worry about missing you’re the shows you like. The TV guide feature enables you to set reminders for them and you don’t have to be around your TV to do that. Irrespective of where you are, your TV guide is always with you. Now, you don’t have to accidentally skip your all time favourite soccer match because you are occupied for a minute after a long, hectic day at work.
If you don’t have the Peel remote control yet, you should go ahead and start using it. You can be assured that you haven’t experienced such convenience and fun while watching TV ever before.
Apple TV: tvOS bekommt Dark Mode und neue Remote-App!
Apple TV: tvOS bekommt Dark Mode und neue Remote-App! #tvOS #appleTV #siri
Für das neue Apple TV 4 stehen mittlerweile 1300 Videokanäle und 6000 Apps zur Verfügung. Zumindest in den USA ist das so.
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