Flic

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About this app

Flic App lets you set up your Flic - The Wireless Smart Button. Connect it to one or more of your Flic buttons and control each one individually.

Set up what action you want to happen when you press each button. Examples:
• Press a Flic to send an emergency SMS text message to your family
• Press a Flic to control your music
• Press a Flic to change colours of your Hue Lights

You can set different functions to happen for these button commands:
• Single press
• Double press
• Hold

You can even set multiple functions to each command. Example:
Press to navigate to a destination and count the number of times you have done so.

Read more about Flic and buy Flic at https://flic.io

This app uses the Device Administrator permission. That is for the lock screen functionality.

Flic requires permission to collect location data allowing the following actions to operate in the background, even when the app is closed or not in use. Location data is only accessed in the background when a Flic button is pushed with one of the following actions:
• Emergency SMS
• Runkeeper
• Strava
• Flow - location use optional
• IFTTT - location use optional
• Zapier - location use optional

Ratings and reviews

It works pretty well, but there's a lot of delay between the button press and the action (in my case, mostly lights). Playing music with Spotify doesn't work, it just opens the app. I'd also love to see Lyft support in addition to Uber. UPDATE: This app uses way too much battery! It brought my battery life from 13 hours average to 4, draining while at home, on wifi, and not using the phone. This is ridiculous! This app also has a constant notification that cannot be closed say it's running.

Flic is great! It’s a great little device that lets you be in control of automated tasks in a sort of analog way. Lots of fun to see what it can do and is actually a really powerful tool when you integrate it with other advanced services. Ran into an issue getting unified remote to work so their support walked me through a workaround. They’re so helpful, patient, and friendly! Can’t recommend Flic enough!

I like the Flic concept for smart home integration, and bought the Hub to that end, but it's ultimately disappointing. The app automatically sets up a permanent notification whenever it's run, which no option to disable that without force closing - the whole point of the hub is to not have the Flic app running on your phone, so why keep it running when I only use the Hub? Plus, there have been no new integrations for ages.

What's new

New integration: Homey
You can now trigger your Homey Flows using Flic!