iPhone as a home cinema driver

Published by Kostas Stergiou on

The iPhone is a powerful smart home controller. You can manage many home automations through the Home app,  which serves as a central hub for controlling smart home accessories.

 

 

 

 

 

 

As a result it can also be a excellent smart home cinema driver.

To control your smart home  accessories remotely, we need a home hub. This can be an Apple TV (4th generation or later) or a HomePod.  The iPhone and the home hub must be signed in with the same Apple ID.

 

 

 

 

We can also run automations after installing Alexa, Google Home, Smartthings and Home Assistant platforms.

 

 

 

 

There are also several universal remote apps  available on the App Store that can turn an iPhone into a TV remote. These apps work by connecting the iPhone and the smart TV to the same Wi-Fi network.

There are also several specific TV manufacturer’s app (e.g. Samsung, LG).

 

 

 

 

The iPhone can also control an Apple TV directly. In iOS, there’s a built-in Apple TV remote control accessible through the Control Center.

 

 

 

 

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Kostas Stergiou

Kostas Stergiou is a Professor at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He was the former Director of the Institute of Marine Biological Resources and Inland Waters of HCMR (2013-2021).He has research interests on fish and fisheries ecology, modeling and forecasting, ecosystem management, and bibliometrics. He has contributed more than 200 papers in peer-reviewed journals and several other publications (see https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=k8hb4pIAAAAJ).Since 2008 and 2015 he developed the home cinema and smart home hobbies and has installed different home cinema setups in two different houses which have lately been transformed to smart ones.

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