Roomie Remote app review: turn your iOS device into a universal remote control over your home network

Introduction

Convert your iPhone or iPad into a universal remote control system, customized to your specific needs, by downloading the Roomie Remote app.

Capable of supporting thousands of devices, this rommoe remote for iPhone app works by connecting your iOS device with those home theater components over your home network, ensuring that you don't need additional hardware to manifest this universal gadget-to-gadget communicator. It sounds almost too good to be true!

$9.99 isn't a cheap price tag for a roomie remote control app, but when I consider what it can accomplish, I feel that this app provides really great value for money. Let's find out why this roomie remote for the home is worth the money.

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Optimized And Fully Customizable Remote

Roomie Remote can bring its users more than 160,000 commands across thousands of compatible devices at their fingertips. When you first fire it up, this app's IP control can do all the work for you by locating devices on your WiFi network using the Automatic Discovery feature.

This app can provide you with a Virtual Remote for any of the devices that are supported by automatically optimizing each of the original remote's commands and sometimes even adding advanced commands such as “discrete” power modes. Furthermore, this remote is gesture based, providing gesture panels that prevent you from accidentally sending the wrong command to your device.

Users can also create, remove, or edit existing buttons on the remote to their liking.

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User-Friendly & All-Encompassing

This app boasts a small learning curve as I was able to use it instantly and easily, while the thought of setting up even the most rudimentary 2.1 speakers makes me a little nervous. It also only takes up 41.4 MB, which is insignificant considering its functions both over iTunes and Music as well as video and TV.

Using Roomie Remote, you can control your music and video libraries' play functions, playlist selection, scrubbing through the timeline, viewing album art, adjusting volume, and much more.

Roomie Remote also provides a Personalized TV Guide along with live feedback with information such as your receiver's volume. You can integrate several IP Media Players such as Dish, TiVo, Roku, Sonos, VLC, and many more with the live channel information. For most of these, you can also use a keyboard for command input.

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Pros & Cons

Pros

• Control all your home theater components using just your iOS device
• Enjoy the Virtual Remote, adapted from the original and optimized with gesture panels and fully customizable
• Learn how to use this app quickly thanks to a short learning curve
• Control both video and music through iTunes
• Integrate IP Media Players such as Dish, TiVo, Roku, Sonos, VLC, and many more with live channel information

Cons

• There is nothing negative to say about this app

Final Words

If you've ever wished that by some feat of technology, you'd be able to control all your devices from one handy remote, then Roomie Remote is your answer. This iPhone and iPad app is the epitome of technological development designed to make your life easier and offer you universal control over your precious gadgets. A must-have!