Knocki

Haptic, Inc.

About this app

Knocki is the easiest and most exciting way to make any home smart.

Use Knocki to transform walls, tables, and other ordinary surfaces into gesture-enabled interfaces to control your connected world.

Whether you'd like to dim the lights, find your lost phone, or turn on your TV, your favorite functions are just a few taps away.

App Features:
- Set up any Knocki device.
- Link your favorite devices, accounts, and services.
- Create/edit tap gestures to perform any tasks you want.
- Once a Knocki is set up, it works on its own, even without your phone!

Popular Tasks:
- Tap your coffee table to boot up the TV and dim the lights.
- Tap your kitchen counter to find your lost phone.
- Tap your nightstand to adjust your thermostat.

Want to learn more?
- Explore the possibilities or get your own Knocki at http://knocki.com
- Send your questions to [e-mail]

Ratings and reviews

The app didn't crash, but naming gesture and then having to enter in the app ID from IFTTT (1) was cumbersome and (2) didn't work to trigger the IFTTT recipe. The device was also not very sensitive -- took many tries before the in-app alert popped up -- which reassured me that the gesture recognition is working (sometimes), but somewhere the trigger into IFTTT wasn't going through. The review is more due to back-end or device issues rather than the app itself, but the app is pretty useless unless both the device and the backend connectivity works. Hopefully this will improve as the team debugs things / rev the app to improve the UX. I was actually somewhat surprised by the delivery, having not heard from the kickstarter campaign for so long. Hopefully the product will improve and not die on the vine. The "suggested app" to play music worked fine.

Still took a while to set up... Sometimes it goes in an infinite loop when syncing/connecting to Hue or SmartThings... was frustrating but once it stopped the loop to connect, it finally works. Still no support yet for Amazon/Alexa. Logitech is a huge plus though, thus the rating from 3-4. IFTT has moved to paid for most part so that sucks!

Not sure where the problem lies, but the app never finishes setting up my Knocki device. It consistently hangs during the 3rd of 3 stages of the "connect knocki" portion of the setup. No amount of restarts, app reinstalls or otherwise make a difference, leaving this device useless. In a household with almost a dozen different smart devices, there's no reason this setup should be this difficult. On an unmodified V30+

What's new

Misc bug fixes. Alexa integration finally available for BETA testers.