Being a working woman, you need to spend long hours outside your home when you do not have ‘control’ over your home and significant components of your home – is it? Well, whether you are inside or outside your home, you can keep your apprehension regarding your home at bay with remote control over your house. In this regards, your iPhone or iPod touch makes you gain control that you need over your house. What – you thought your iPhone or iPod touch is just a media player, a phone or PDA? It is a small device that gives you the power to remotely control your TV, lights, your audio system or Blu-ray Disc Player, your car etc. with apps. There are various types of apps using which you can convert your iPhone or iPod touch into a remote controller.
DIRECTV
With DIRECTV iPhone app, you will never miss your favorite show again even when you are not present at your house. Once you subscribe for DIRECTV, this DIRECTV iPhone app will make you gain control over your TV to set the home DVR when you want to record your favorite TV shows when you are miles away from your home. The app also lets you access and browse program schedules with a quick search process or else you can surf your TV by channel, date and time.
HomeWorks Light Control
Whether you are watering plants in your garden or on your way home from your office, you can light up your home instantly before you enter the room and reach for the switches. Keeping your home illuminated is made possible with this app called HomeWorks Light Control. HomeWorks Light Control app turns your iPhone into a remote to switch on or off the lights from inside and outside your home. This app also lets you communicate with the HomeWorks system by using either your mobile network or Wi-Fi – so every light in your home is under your thumb with your iPhone. Another app to give you control over lights is Luminair (DMX lighting control) that let you set studio lighting and moving lights, color-mixable LED fixtures, and other DMX-enabled lighting equipment through Wi-Fi network on iPhone.
Mercedes-Benz mbrace and Zipcar
These two iPhone apps are devised to give you a keyless control your cars. You can lock or unlock your car from anywhere you could be. Have you forgotten where have you parked your car in the parking lot? Instead of roaming around with your keys and sending sound beeps to follow the location, view the location of the location where your car is parked by a single tap on the ‘Location’ button. On the other hand, Zipcar app allows you remotely book your car from iPhone and unlock with a virtual button on the iPhone.
There are some more remote control apps for iPhone to enable you control your house with Control4 My House, Home Automation System, control your media player with XBMC (Xbox Media Center), your camera with DSLR remote app.
