Simple Control Legacy (Formerly Roomie Remote) App Reviews

Great work on the latest v4.2 update. Very smooth update with many improvements and additional features. Simple Control is the standard for what a remote control should be. Easy to program and supports just about any device you can imagine.

This app and the associated hardware is quite the challenge to setup. However; with the outstanding technical assistance, one can get this up and running. The hardest aspect is with the command lines and getting the needed parameters to setup custom activities. This is where their service excels! Jon from Simple Control was fast, friendly and precise with the guidance I needed. So bottom line, this app and hardware are excellent and I am amazed at the number of compatible devices you can control. Ordered the hub and look forward to having Alexa control my A/V equipment!

Didnt find most of my devices on wifi. Did find Samsung tvs, but the didnt work to control them at all. I want something that just works, and I dont have to putz around trying to configure it. I dont have time or energy for that. I want my money back!

Thanks for this app. With this app, I can control different devices from within the same app...

Completely nonintuitive very hard to set up and a complete waste of money. Positive reviews are probably from people that were paid to give positive feedback

I should have read a little closer you only get 3 devices then you have to pay a yearly fee if you want any additional devices. When controlling a theater system it takes more than just 3 devices. So buyer beware dont make the same mistake I made

Asked for my money back. Needs a lot of setup, and I didnt understand how to use the app.

I am tired of more ugly remote controls. This solved that problem. A Harmony (and others) remote is just another ugly remote. You need to have a basic understanding of IR and IP control to make this work for all your gear, but once its set up it works amazingly well. Love that if I tweak something on my iPhone, it automatically updates the setting on my iPad and my wifes iPhone. You can make it as easy or as complicated as you like. I use it for my home theater room, whole house Sonos, HVAC and security cameras. They also continually update and improve the app.

4.0 has obliterated usefulness on Apple Watch. Almost all of the functions have been removed. Indigo does not work with watch. Please bring back previous watch version.

...now for the love of God, please stop asking me to rate this app.

My family loves Simple Control. The Guides are great! Multi-room Audio Video, lighting, and HVAC control for a fraction of the price of other solutions. Great App and a great value.

Having spent tons of time and money on various lesser solutions, Ive settled on Roomie because of its ease of use, huge library of supported devices, and incredible technical support. The icing on the cake is the Apple Watch app that they released. By far its the most useful app that Ive used on the watch so far. Keep up the awesome work!

I bought this app when it was reasonably priced. They introduced a reasonable yearly service fee of $16.99 to support more devices and to give you TV listings. I bought the $99 IR blaster, and I was reasonably happy. Each year brought new features, and as a result more and increased fees. I saw some potential to integrate my mac into the fray as well with Roomie agent ($29), which has soon after become simple sync rendering the Roomie Agent application useless and cost me another $49 to replace. They renamed themselves to Simple Control. My yearly subscription continued, so now I have Roomie Services subscription at $16.99 (not to be confused with Simple Services which actually replaces it), I have a mac OS X Simple Sync app ($49) which doesn’t do anything that I can see since any really beneficial application of this app is only seen if I spend another $29.99 per year so that I can access the features it unlocks. All in all I have now spent over $200 and I have a bunch of disjointed and EXTREMELY difficult to configure services that don’t do everything they claim to do because I haven’t been able to bring myself to spend another $29.99 to enable them. This product is a moving target with the prices continuously going up with each new feature tagging on an even bigger price tag. Support is VERY curt and condescending. The idea was really good, but I can no longer support a company that continues to increase the cost and treats me badly.

just wanted to thank the people in charge for being very professional while screwing your customers over by forcing your simplexremote service. Especially the one who paid for add-ons. Completely absurd you now have to pay for a yearly service to use this app. Even more so there was no warning. Your app is not worth a yearly service!