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Point your arm at a lamp, like you're showing it to a friend, and snap your fingers. It turns on. Maestro Snap teaches your Apple Watch where your things are. You "paint" each device once by sweeping your arm at it, and from then on the watch knows what you're aiming at. It learns from your corrections, so it gets better with use. No cameras, no hubs, no cloud. Works with Apple Home and Home Assistant. Free for one device, $8.99 one-time for the house.
Hi Product Hunt,
I built this because the light switch was all the way over there and I was all the way over here.
I'd been daydreaming about pointing at things for years. The problem always seemed to need cameras, or ultra-wideband beacons, or a mmWave sensor in every room. Then it occurred to me that the watch already knows which way my arm is pointing. It just doesn't know what's over there.
So you tell it. You "paint" a device: point at the lamp and sweep your arm at it for a few seconds, wandering a little, the way you'd spray-paint it. That records a bundle of directions from the places you actually stand. After that, a snap is a toggle. When it guesses wrong, you correct it, and the correction becomes training data.
The hard part wasn't pointing, it was rooms. Aiming at the ceiling light looks identical in every room in the house. So the watch also listens for the Bluetooth signature of each room, and the two kinds of evidence vote on where you are.
Everything runs on the watch. No cameras, no cloud, no account, and I never see your data because there is nowhere for it to go.
Things I'll tell you before you find them: the watch app has to be on screen when you snap, because watchOS won't let a third-party app watch for gestures in the background. The workaround testers landed on is assigning a hand gesture to launch it, so the whole move is clench, point, snap. And if snapping with your watch hand is awkward, there's a Tap trigger instead.
It's free for one device with Apple Home, and $8.99 one-time to unlock the whole house and Home Assistant.
Happy to answer anything, including the parts that don't work yet.
David
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About Maestro Snap on Product Hunt
“Point at a lamp, snap your fingers, it turns on”
Maestro Snap was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 4 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #82 on the daily leaderboard. Point your arm at a lamp, like you're showing it to a friend, and snap your fingers. It turns on. Maestro Snap teaches your Apple Watch where your things are. You "paint" each device once by sweeping your arm at it, and from then on the watch knows what you're aiming at. It learns from your corrections, so it gets better with use. No cameras, no hubs, no cloud. Works with Apple Home and Home Assistant. Free for one device, $8.99 one-time for the house.
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