Control

Every smart device in your home, in one app.

Scan your Wi-Fi, and your lights, plugs, AC and TV boxes show up on one screen. Everything stays on your home network.

 

What you can do

• Tap a Tile to switch a device. It glows in the light's real colour.
• Dim lights, change colours, set the AC.
• Control a TV or fan that has no Wi-Fi, through an infrared hub.
• Open Netflix or yes+ on your TV box with one tap.
• Group devices ("Living room lights") and switch them together.
• Arrange your own Dashboards: Tiles, a brightness bar, a colour wheel, the AC, a TV remote, single buttons like "Netflix" and a clock, placed where you want them. Turn an old phone into a remote.
• Set Hotkeys: keys on your PC that toggle a light, dim it while held, or press Volume + on the TV, from any app. Keys can also do something else when pressed twice or held, or start a sequence (Ctrl+Alt+L, then 1).
• Make Automations: at a time or at sunset, or when a Device turns on or off (or stays on a while), a TV box opens an app, or a Device goes Offline; only if something's true, do a few things in order ("at 19:00 on weekdays, if it's dark, turn on the living room lights, wait 3 hours, turn them off"), or run another Automation. Control runs them itself while it's running, and tells you when something didn't work.
• Use it from your phone, or just ask Claude.

Works with

Brand	Devices
Yeelight	Bulbs and LED strips
Tuya / Smart Life	Wi-Fi plugs
Broadlink RM	Infrared hubs, and through them any AC, TV or fan with a remote
Android TV / Google TV	NVIDIA Shield, Chromecast with Google TV, yes+ boxes, Android TVs

Your AC doesn't need to be smart. Control tries a few remote codes and you tell it which one the AC answered.

Get started

1. Download ControlSetup.exe from the latest release and run it. No admin rights needed.
2. If Windows says "Windows protected your PC", click More info, then Run anyway. Control isn't signed yet.
3. Go to Add devices and press Scan.

Control keeps running in the tray after you close its window, so your phone keeps working. Quit it from the tray icon.

On your phone

Turn on Settings → Phone access, scan the QR code, and approve the code your phone shows. Works anywhere on your home Wi-Fi while the PC is on. On an iPhone, add it to the Home Screen and it opens like an app.

Ask Claude

In Settings → Assistant, click Connect Claude, then restart Claude Desktop. Now try "dim the living room lights" or "put yes+ on the Shield". Claude asks before it changes anything.

Claude Code inside the Claude app uses the same connection. For the claude CLI, Settings shows the command to run once (only when the CLI is installed). Any other MCP client can run the local server Control.exe --mcp. Restart Claude after you update Control, or it keeps the old tools.

Tool	What it does
list_devices	Lists your devices and Groups
get_device	Reads one device's state and what you can change
set_power	Turns a device or Group on or off
set_light	Sets brightness or colour
set_climate	Sets the AC's mode, temperature and fan
press_button	Presses a remote button, like Volume +
open_app	Opens an app on a TV box
create_group	Makes a Group
edit_group	Renames a Group or changes its devices
delete_group	Deletes a Group
list_scenes	Lists your Scenes, and which are active
set_scene	Sets a Scene, like "Movie night"
create_scene	Makes a Scene, from how things are now or from the values you say
edit_scene	Renames a Scene or changes its devices
delete_scene	Deletes a Scene
list_hotkeys	Lists your Hotkeys
create_hotkey	Makes a Hotkey, like Ctrl+Alt+L to toggle a light, run an Automation or set a Scene
delete_hotkey	Deletes a Hotkey
list_automations	Lists your Automations
get_automation	Reads one Automation and how its recent Runs went
create_automation	Makes an Automation, like "at sunset, turn on the living room lights"
edit_automation	Changes an Automation
set_automation_enabled	Switches an Automation on or off
run_automation	Runs an Automation now
delete_automation	Deletes an Automation
list_people	Says who's home, from their phones on the Wi-Fi

It only works in Claude on the same PC. Claude on the web or your phone can't reach your home network.

Coming next

Scenes. Later, Samsung TVs, Rooms and more brands. See the roadmap.

Run from source

You need Windows, Python 3.11+ and Node.js 24.

git clone https://github.com/oBecks/control.git && cd control
python -m venv .venv && .venv/Scripts/pip install -e ".[desktop]"
npm --prefix web install && npm --prefix web run build
.venv/Scripts/python -m control.desktop

The glossary, design decisions and design system explain how it's built.