BSH Home Connect

2021: Compatibility with Apple Watch and Wear OS devices

The BSH company reported on April 26, 2021 that smart часыApple Watch and the majority of devices on the basis of Wear OS from Google support the Home Connect application. It allows you to remotely control household appliances: turn on and off devices, prepare your favorite types of coffee, manage programs on the dishwasher and perform many other functions. The full list of smart features depends on the type of device.

With Apple Watch smartwatches and Wear-based devices OS from Google, 10 types of household appliances are compatible: from oven cabinets and coffee machines to refrigerators and. robot vacuum cleaners Progress tracking is available for each device, and the list of additional features depends on the product type: so, the lines of coffee machines Bosch Siemens allow you to remotely prepare three pre-set types of drinks configured by the user (indicating the variety, strength of coffee and the volume of the drink), dishwashers have the function of monitoring and adjusting the temperature, and the oven is automatically warmed up to the desired temperature by pressing the smart watch display one at a time.

Home Connect for Smart Watches is available on the App Store and Google Play. It works autonomously - you need to download the Home Connect application for smartwatches to the application installed on the smartphone. After that, you need to go through a short and understandable registration procedure.

2018: Start selling home appliances in Russia with Home Connect

In July 2018, it became known that BSH begins selling household appliances with Home Connect technology in Russia

• Mobile application Home Connect allows you to manage smart technology of different brands remotely
• Technology managed through Home Connect acquires additional advanced features
• Home Connect Technology Makes Home Appliances More Efficient and Makes Home Trouble Easier

Home Connect Application

According to the developer's forecasts, by 2025 the number of devices with the ability to connect to the network will exceed 14 billion. The world is becoming digital, at home - "smart," and the Internet of things is already part of our reality. The transition to digital technologies has been one of the main areas of work of BSH for several years.

Innovation at home

The mobile application, called Home Connect, allows you to combine household appliances of several BSH brands into a single whole and opens up opportunities for service and diagnostics of home appliances. The application is already available for devices on the iOS and Android platforms and household appliances brands Bosch, Siemens and Gaggenau.

Thanks to Home Connect, the future is much closer. Just install the mobile application on your smartphone, and you can turn on and off home appliances, select programs, set up a timer and activate energy saving mode, even if you are many kilometers from home. With Home Connect, the oven, cooking panel, dishwasher and washing machine, coffee machine or robot vacuum cleaner will always be at your fingertips.

Cooking

The Home Connect app allows you to diversify the family menu or find a recipe for the upcoming holiday - all recipes are designed specifically for your oven: just choose the right recipe in the mobile application and press the Start key.

The oven will automatically start working with optimal time and temperature settings. Verified recipes will provide the perfect result of cooking even the most complex dishes. Each month, Home Connect offers several recipes from seasonal products or for special events, exclusive to Home Connect users.

As in the oven, the Home Connect app offers cooking panel recipes that allow you to optimize the process of cooking tasty and healthy food. Using the Assist suite of programs using the PerfectCook cooking sensor and the PerfectFry frying sensor in the application, you can set the temperature in five different ranges and be sure that the selected temperature will be accurately maintained and nothing will burn or boil. In a convenient interface, you will always know how much a certain pan already costs on the stove. Using Home Connect, you can synchronize the work of the cooking panel and the drawing - when you turn on the cooking panel, the drawing will start working automatically. Also, the application will solve another headache of any host - to remind of a decrease in exhaust performance and the need to replace the coal filter or wash the fat recovery filter.

Lingerie and utensils care

With the Easy Start function for washing machines available in the Home Connect application, you only need to set certain clothing parameters, and the application itself will choose the optimal washing program and additional options. The washing time can be adjusted independently from 20 minutes to 3.5 hours thanks to the program MyTime. Over time, when additional programs appear, Home Connect will allow you to start them as well. Thus, the functionality of the machine will expand.

Dishwasher control allows you to not only remotely turn on and set the dishwashing mode, but also monitor the supply of detergent tablets and the need to turn on the cleaning mode in time (the application will automatically send you a notification after 30 cycles of dishwashing). A pleasant addition to the mobile application will be the AmbientLight feature, which allows you to customize the interior lighting of the dishwasher in accordance with the interior of the kitchen.

If you live in a private home, the Home Connect system gives you the ability to save power using alternative sources. Thanks to the energy efficiency function, the washing and dishwasher will be able to automatically switch from electric energy to, for example, the energy of solar panels on your roof, and if the supply is over, the system will automatically return to power from the electric grid.

Preparation of coffee

The My Coffee feature in Home Connect allows you to customize your beverage settings to suit your individual preferences and keep the recipe in the device's memory. With Home Connect, you can even solve such a difficult task as preparing coffee for a large number of guests. You can create a playlist of your guests' favorite coffee drinks and simply transfer it to a coffee machine that will prepare each individual drink one by one. Thanks to the "Coffee World" feature, in addition to the standard built-in recipes, you can now prepare one of 19 different coffee drinks, including exotic Spanish cortado and Dutch koffie verkeerd. Remote control of the coffee machine will allow you to remotely heat the cups, choose one of two grain containers with different types of coffee, as well as control the freshness of milk.

Cleaning

With the Home Connect application, a solution to the hated problem of cleaning in the house has appeared. For the Bosch smart robot vacuum cleaner, you can not only set the cleaning path, but also its schedule - the vacuum cleaner will automatically turn on at a certain day and hour, even if you are not home. Before the first cleaning, he will first "study" your housing and create a digital map of living space. At this stage, you can give the names of the rooms and assign them to the order in the cleaning process. Then the robot will find the way on its own. You can also designate areas where the robot will not clean - for example, the place of storage of children's toys.

Special functions

Home Connect will make household chores as easy as watching a social media feed. The system monitors the need to maintain devices and replace individual elements and consumables, allows you to easily control devices remotely, informs about the completion of the working cycle, stores error information and can replace the operating manual if you suddenly lose its paper counterpart. Moreover, you can order branded accessories and consumables directly through the application by placing an order in the online store.

Home Connect is the command point for managing your appliances. It is available for free download in AppStore for iOS and Google Play for Android and installation on a smartphone or tablet with Wi-Fi.