Home intercom for tablets: announce to every room, or pick a room and talk to it
Call the kids down for dinner without shouting. Roomhail turns the tablets around your home into an intercom: one big button announces to every room, or pick a room and talk.
It runs inside a PerliSmart household; set that up first.
Next to it is the list of the household's rooms, so you can see which tablets have checked in today.
Good to know: Roomhail is a companion app. A tablet joins your PerliSmart household on your own Wi-Fi or by scanning a pairing code from a tablet that is already set up; until then it shows the clock and little else.
WHAT IT DOES
- Opens on the intercom, not a generic assistant screen.
- Announce to every room at once, or choose which rooms hear you.
- Sound with optional video, so a room can see who is calling.
- A room list of the tablets that joined your household, and when they were last seen.
- Your own IP cameras, live, including talk-back on cameras that support audio.
- Shared timers, calendar, shopping list and notes are one tap away.
THE MICROPHONE
- The wake word "Okay Pearl" is spotted on the device. That audio never leaves it.
- Only after the wake word, or a tap, does a listening window open. By default the audio of that one command goes over an encrypted connection to the PerliSmart service to be turned into text; a setting recognises speech on the device instead.
- While the microphone is open a notification says so, and it cannot be swiped away.
- Mute releases the microphone completely.
Free sign-in keeps your purchases and settings on every device.
WHAT IT COSTS
Roomhail is free with ads; a one-time Remove ads purchase turns them off.
PRIVACY
- No crash-reporting SDK.
- No contacts and no location.
Install Roomhail on a spare tablet and use it as a home intercom.