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Review on Enhance Home Automation with BroadLink RM4 Pro Sensor Cable: An Essential Addition for Smarter Control by Patrick Locke

Revainrating 2 out of 5

Too imperfect to keep: Hubs and Controllers

I tried to get this article to work but it's too broken to keep. Its functionality is oversimplified, but even then it didn't work stably. Scenes are easy to create, but often they don't work by turning the power on and off again a second later. Don't be fooled by the large database of remote control manufacturers, because what they give you will not exactly match your remote control. You can change the button names, which was nice, but he just didn't learn some functions. Like most of these items, this is not a universal remote in my opinion. You have to keep going back to your remotes to change channels, adjust volume, select from streaming, etc. I found it more frustrating to use than a traditional remote. The BroadLink app's GUI is ridiculously simplistic and poorly designed. For example, a lot of wasted space, volume controls that don't slide or provide feedback on volume. Very frustrating. Not what I wanted to achieve.

Pros
  • Hubs and Controllers
Cons
  • Frequency