Ignore Bad Reviews--Works Almost Flawlessly

I’m pretty certain the bad reviews that say things like “app won’t load” and “doesn’t do anything” are not noticing that ObyThing Music has launched successfully and done the TWO THINGS that it is supposed to:

1. It INVISIBLY exposes iTunes to SmartThings, making ST think your Mac is a $500+ Sonos player.
2. It puts a small circle icon in the menu bar that tells you the two bits of info you need to configure the ObyThing Music SmartApp in SmartThings.

THAT’S ALL IT DOES FOLKS. THAT’S ALL IT **SHOULD** DO.

There’s no splash screen. No fancy graphics. This is probably what confused the other reviewers. Maybe it needs an initial help screen to clue in users.

I’ve run it on two different Macs, and on the first it ran flawlessly, though since that iMac was wirelessly connected iTunes stuttered over Airplay more than I liked. This wasn’t ObyThing’s fault though!
I moved it to a wired Mac Mini, and I’m experiencing some iTunes unresponsiveness, but I’m not convinced this is ObyThing’s problem. Until just the other day, I had never used that Mini as my iTunes jukebox, and I think it may have issues independent of ObyThing.

For $4.99, you get functionality only easily available in SmartThings previously using the very expensive Sonos hardware. With it, you can add a Music Player to your SmartTiles setup and control iTunes from any dashboard you want. You can have it read out a weather report for you. It enables SmartThings to TALK to you how ever you want from “The freezer door is open” to “Welcome home!"

Obything is awesome. If you run SmartThings, and have an AirPlay setup for your iTunes, this is a no-brainer app. Get it.

different computers about ObyThing Music