The room is ready before the guest reaches it.

How it works

The television is the remote control your guests already understand. Niteporter is what gives it something to say and a reason to say it at the right moment.

Devices and scenes are described per room type rather than per room, because a hundred standard doubles have the same two lamps and the same thermostat. Describe the type once and every room of that type has it.

Scenes fire on the events the broker already tracks. Arrival sets the room for somebody who has just travelled; departure returns it to a state that is not costing you money for an empty room.

What you control

Room control is the most property-specific thing on this list, so almost all of it is yours to describe.

• What is in a room type. Which lights, which curtains, whether there is a thermostat, and what each one is called on the screen. A suite gets its own type.
• The scenes. What "Arrive", "Sleep" or "Away" actually do, and which of them fire automatically on check-in and check-out.
• The limits. What a guest may set the temperature to. Hotels have opinions about this and they are usually right.

The fine print

• Niteporter speaks LG's room-control interface. It does not talk to your lights directly — the devices have to be reachable and commissioned on the Pro:Centric side, and that is an electrical and AV job, not a software one.
• Described per room type. A room that is genuinely different from its neighbours needs its own type, which takes a minute in the portal but does need doing.
• Nothing about a light switch leaves the building. Room control is between the television, the broker and the devices; RMS is only the source of the check-in that starts a scene.
• LG's interface covers lights, dimmers, curtains, thermostats, door locks and sensors, and Niteporter carries all of them. A lock is a security device, though — commission that one with your locking vendor in the room, not from a web page.