One tap runs the whole room.

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Most remote apps ask a single question: which box am I pointed at right now? Rote asks a larger one. It keeps a small map of your home — the sets you own, the room each of them sits in, and the routines you run on them — and that map is the first thing on screen when the app opens.

Rooms

You make the rooms and you name them. Living room, bedroom, the one at your mother's. A set belongs to a room, and a room can hold as many sets as you have. Opening a room shows what is in it and whether each one answered the last time it was asked.

Adding a set is two roads of equal width, side by side on the same screen: let the app look around the network, or type the address in yourself. Neither is buried under the other, both carry the same weight on the page, and an address you typed can be corrected later from the same screen.

Scenes

A scene is an ordered list of small steps, saved under a name you choose, and started with one tap. Steps available in this version:

• Power a set on, or power it off.
• Open a channel by name, picked from the list the set reports.
• Switch the input — HDMI 1 to 4, AV, or the antenna, on sets that have them.
• Step the volume down or up by a number of presses you set, or mute it.
• Send any single key the set understands, from Home to Play to Back.
• Wait one to fifteen seconds, because a set that has just woken up needs a moment.

Volume moves in presses, not percentages: a step means one press of the button, the same one the plastic remote sends. We say six steps quieter because that is what happens — no scene claims to put a set at exactly thirty per cent, because no set will accept such an instruction.

Scenes can be written, reordered and run before a single set has been added — three example scenes are there from the first launch. With nothing to send to, the run sheet still walks the list step by step and states, against each one, that there is no set to send it to, then counts how many went through. Nothing has to be plugged in before the app is worth opening.

More than one set at a time

A step aimed at a room goes out to every set in that room at once rather than one after another, so a single scene can quiet the bedroom while the living room wakes up. The run sheet marks each step as it happens — went through, or failed with the reason spelled out. A step that fails does not end the run: the steps after it still get their turn, and the one that stopped offers to be retried or skipped.

Made to be operated

Every control is a real button with a spoken label, so the app can be driven end to end without looking at it. Touch targets are never smaller than 48 points, text follows the size you chose in iOS right up to the accessibility sizes, no status is carried by colour alone, and every swipe action is repeated in a menu on the same row for anyone who would rather not swipe.

Works with

Nothing leaves the phone

Nothing asks you to register: no account, no profile, no measurement of what you do. Rooms, sets and scenes are written into storage on the phone and stay there. The only traffic the app makes runs from the phone in your hand to the equipment in your room, across the router you already own; the two links in Settings that point at this site are handed to your browser rather than fetched by the app. The long version lives on the privacy page, and it is short as well.

Stuck?

The questions people actually ask are worked through on the help page, and an address sits at the top of it for whatever that page leaves out.