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Switchmate

Connect, Configure, & Control Switchmate Home Devices from your Phone!

Switchmate Home LLC · com.switchmatehome.switchmateapp

Not rated yet 50K+ downloads v3.3.2 26 MB Android 4.4+ PEGI 3 · Everyone

  • Same certificate as the 2 other versions checked Details

At a glance

Latest version
v3.3.2 (204)
Updated
May 19, 2020 (6 years ago)
APK size
26 MB
Requires
Android 4.4+ (API 19)
CPU support
ARM (legacy), ARM 64-bit
Category
House & Home (app)
Permissions
20 (5 sensitive)
Website
switchmatehome.com
Developer contact
[email protected]
Privacy
Developer's privacy policy

About this APK

Switchmate is an app by Switchmate Home LLC in the House & Home category. It includes native code for ARM (legacy) and ARM 64-bit, so it runs on practically every phone.

It asks for 20 permissions, 5 of them sensitive, including precise location, record audio and approximate location. Compared with version 3.3.0, it drops 1 permission: “Read logs”.

What's new in v3.3.2

3.3.0 - Pairing Fixes/Improvements - MAJOR Timer Rework - Enabled Timers? Please check and re-save your Timer settings NEW Alexa & Google Home Update If you have a Switchmate Power/Zip, see our brand new skills! You can find 'SimplySmart Home by Switchmate' on Alexa & Google's Home Control. If you used our prior skills we suggest you unlink & link to the new ones. For previous GH users if you do not have a Power/Zip device you should continue to use the Explore Assistant 'Switchmate' action.

Description

From the listing uploaded by “split-store”.

The Switchmate app allows you to interact with our full suite of Switchmate Devices! Connect, Configure & Control Switchmate, SWMbright/Slim, SWMpower, Zip, Cube Camera, and our future devices all in one place. Setup, toggling, setting preferences like timers and Welcome Home, and more! We are currently hard at work on a MAJOR ground-up rebuild (v4.0) and would love to hear your feedback, we're listening! Support/Need Help? [email protected] Feedback/Suggestions? [email protected] Features: - Control your existing switches or power ports - Timers: automatically turn your switches or plugs on/off at preset times - Welcome Home: automatically turn on switches or plugs of your choosing when you get home - View, Record, and Manage your Cube IP Camera - Remote Control from anywhere with a Bridge Device (Power or Zip) - Full Alexa Integration: "SimplySmart Home by Switchmate" Skill (Requires Power or Zip bridge) "Alexa, turn on my porch light" - Full Google Home, Home Control Integration: "SimplySmart Home by Switchmate" Action under GH Home Control (Requires Power or Zip bridge) "Hey Google, turn on my living room fan" - Google Assistant Integration: "Switchmate" action under Google Assistant Explore - Separate from our primary GH integration above we offer limited GH/GA functionality for users without a Power or Zip device! "Hey Google, talk to Switchmate" - Updates: get over the air firmware updates for your Switchmate device(s) to make sure you have the latest/greatest - Voice Control: Use the mic icon in the app to control your lights with your voice, see below for more details! Some of the Features we're working on: - Widgets: Add them to your Home Screen so you don't have to open the app to toggle switches or use voice commands! - Grouping: Create & control groups of devices together. - Timeout: Automatically turn off a switch after X amount of time! - Android Wear: Because who doesn't want to use their watch to do all this? - API & Tasker/IFTTT Plugins: Per your requests, we're still in the early planning stages on this one but we're working on it! Voice Control Feature: You can click the Microphone icon in the app and simply say your command - voice activation tries to first match by the switch name that shows in your list of devices (and you can change under Device Settings), but if it can't find that it will try to match to the location you selected when you first setup your Switchmate(s). And you can even use "all" to control all switches within range! Here are some examples: "Turn Kenny's Room light off" "Turn on my living room lights" "Turn all my lights off" "Bedroom on" Permissions: - Location Permissions are unfortunately required for BLE by Android - we're huge on privacy and unfortunately there is no way around not requiring Location to be enabled on Android because we cannot scan for BLE devices without it, and that is why the app will not function without it. Beyond that we do use location data only when Welcome Home is enabled so we can tell you're nearing home in order to optimize battery (so we're not looking for Switchmates all the time!). This data is often cached from other apps and we simply grab that data so in most cases we aren't making new location checks - and that data is NEVER transmitted off your phone/to us at all. - Background Service & Waking your device permissions are also used for Welcome Home so we can ping your Switchmate to let it know you're home without the app needing to be open. - Internet permissions are used for checking for firmware updates & sending us crash reports (via Google Crashlytics) - Bluetooth & WiFi permissions are required for communicating with your Switchmate devices. Requirements: - Switchmate Device(s) of course! - Android 4.4.4+ is required so we can use Bluetooth Low Energy in order to save a lot of battery! Switchmate devices are currently only sold in the US and Canada

Version history

3 versions are listed, going back to v3.2.8.

All 3 versions

Security & authenticity

Security rating: Trusted

Signing certificate

  • Certificate issued to “Rob Romano” Not the developer's name (“Switchmate Home LLC”). Names in certificates can't be verified, so this alone proves nothing.
  • Same certificate as the 2 other versions checked

Store checks and file details

  • Developer signature verified May 19, 2020
  • Antivirus scan passed Sep 16, 2020
  • Signed byCN=Rob Romano
  • Signing certificate (SHA-1)95:E9:20:B5:A6:FA:4F:AB:6A:30:02:6B:B0:D3:7A:DD:C3:CD:CA:84
  • File MD5b87089fdbaec54bb3019f90da2385fdb
  • Uploaded by “split-store” Gold tier · 24,358 followers · uploading since 2019

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Permissions (20)

Switchmate requests 20 permissions, 5 of them sensitive.

Required hardware & features

Switchmate APK: questions and answers

Can I install this APK over the version I already have?

Only if it is signed with the same certificate as the copy on your phone and isn't an older version. If Android says “App not installed”, the certificates differ; uninstalling your copy first works but deletes its data unless it is backed up.

Is the Switchmate APK safe?

No one can promise that a file is safe, but some things can be checked. The source store rates this file Trusted. It is signed with the same certificate as the 2 other versions checked. After downloading, check that the file's MD5 is b87089fdbaec54bb3019f90da2385fdb.

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