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Wemo Stage Scene Controller Review: Apple HomeKit remote needs refinement
Chris Davies - May 11, 2021, 3:32pm CDT
Editors Rating: 7/10
Setup in Apple s Home app keeps things simple
Flexible wall mounting option
HomeKit falls short of some third-party integrations
No roadmap for Thread being enabled
Sometimes, only a button will do. The smart home and the rise of connected devices like lamps, speakers, locks, and more have brought complex automations within reach of a mainstream audience, but sometimes you don’t want to have to pull up an app – or talk to a smart speaker – just to switch on the lights. For those in the Apple HomeKit ecosystem, then, the Wemo Stage Scene Controller remote could be the answer.
Wemo Stage Scene Controller
Most of the products in Belkin’s Wemo line of smart lighting products are platform agnostic. They operate on your home’s Wi-Fi network and can be controlled with either Android or iOS devices. The Wemo Stage Scene Controller is not. It’s a powerful remote control designed exclusively for smart homes based on Apple’s HomeKit platform. If you’re deep into Apple’s ecosystem, you’ll dig it. If you’re not, it will be useless to you.
In its present state, the Wemo Stage uses Bluetooth Low Energy to communicate with a HomePod smart speaker, Apple TV media streamer, or an iPad configured as a home hub. As such, it can control any HomeKit-compatible device individually, any HomeKit-compatible devices you’ve organized into groups, and any “scenes” you’ve created using HomeKit-compatible devices. If you want to control older Wemo devices, you’ll also need the $40 Wemo Bridge (newer Wemo products are already HomeKit compatible, altho