DEPARTMENTS
Connected Home
Redefining the Aesthetics
of Remote Controls
Neeo Marries Swiss Design with the Power of Control4 Smart Home OS 3 Touchscreen Remote
Control Experience
By Jeremy Glowacki
SnapAV’s Neeo is a sleek remote control for the
Control4 Smart Home OS 3, giving homeowners
fast access to the things they use most – their
favorite streaming services, most-watched TV
stations, playlists, and room-level or householdlevel
smart home scenes. Neeo is the first
Control4 handheld remote to combine the
benefits of hard buttons and a touchscreen.
“The modern smart home needs simple
interfaces to start a movie, select a playlist, or lock
a door. Neeo was expertly designed to be
beautiful, and with Control4 OS 3, it’s also the
easiest way for a family to enjoy entertainment in
their homes,” said Charlie Kindel, SnapAV chief
product and technology officer. “Neeo is a
reflection of our obsession for creating the most
elegant and simple interfaces for the refined
smart home.”
Five Important Things to Know About
SnapAV’s Neeo Remote
Meticulously Designed by Swiss Engineers
Neeo is built from machined aluminum
designed to protect the edge-to-edge
touchscreen, making the device incredibly
durable. Neeo balances perfectly in the hand,
embodying the sophistication found in high-end
consumer electronic products. Images and icons
on the three-inch, high-resolution, LCD
touchscreen are crisp and bright to enable quick
one-touch navigation. The remote is available in
either silver or black finishes and ships with an
elegant charging station. Neeo lasts up to five
days on a charge and the low-profile, weighted
charging station gives it a stylish home when not
in use.
Only the Most Important Hard Buttons
Need Apply
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While 81 mm (3.2-inch), highresolution
touchscreen and
software-driven graphical interface
reduce the number of buttons, it
still includes physical buttons for
the essentials, like Volume Up and
Down, Channel Up and Down, the
selector wheel, Mute, Menu,
Home, and Power On/Off.
Built for the Smart Home
Operating System
Neeo was built to harness
software designed specifically to
orchestrate and manage the
modern smart home. Control4
Smart Home OS 3 unifies
connected devices from major
brands, weaves them together for
simplicity, and provides a singular
voice, touch, and hand-held
interface for the whole home.
Family members in a Control4 OS
3 powered home have at-a-glance
views of virtually every connected
device, as well as numerous options for control
including voice with Alexa and Google Assistant,
the Control4 App, a Control4 Touchscreen, a TV
on-screen display and with the Neeo Remote.
Powerful Automation and Entertainment
Control
Control4 OS 3 personalization automatically
extends through to Neeo. Swiping right on Neeo
shows video sources such as a Blu-ray player,
video game system, Dish Network, and more.
Favoring simplicity, Neeo gives homeowners
one-touch icons for the channels they watch
most and an on-screen keypad to type in a
channel number directly. The touchscreen
SnapAV’s Neeo Remote for the
Control4 operating system is
available in either silver or
black finishes and ships with
an elegant charging station.
reduces the number of buttons on the Neeo
Remote, making it easier to learn and use.
Designed to Strike a Balance Between Pro
Install and Homeowner Flexibility
While Neeo is available exclusively through
Control4 Smart Home Pros for $600 U.S.
MSRP, it is designed to allow Favorites and
other features to be changed with the OS 3 app
to be mirrored directly to the remote. Note that
Neeo requires an update to OS3.1 by a
professional integrator. Also, supplements, but
does not replace the popular Control4 SR-260
Remote, which continues to be available for
$330 U.S. MSRP. x