Highlighting some new features in OpenRemote Boss 2.0, it is now easy to create control screens using photos from around your house. You can place buttons or switches in "hotspots" over your images and configure them with transparent content or overlay images that shows whether your light or TV is currently on or off – latter works especially well with switches that can update the image to match the device status polled from sensors.

When using buttons, it is possible to map the button to a command that is executed or the button can be mapped as a navigation control to go to another screen on your phone's interface (or execute a command and switch to another screen both!).

You could use a button on the screen above and map it to switch to another screen that gives you a photo of the TV's remote. Now map all the buttons on your remote to infrared commands that you can fetch from Beehive. If you know you're using a popular model, you can share your remote image with mapped buttons to other users as a template. And then collect all your remotes into a single interface!

And there's a lot more fun stuff that can be done with the new OpenRemote Designer. More on that later.