Hilton Will Let You Control TV, Lights, Temp in Your Room From Smartphone
Photo Credit: The temperature control option being added to the Hilton Honors mobile app in a staged rollout will enable guests to keep rooms set at a temperature they like without having to touch a room thermostat. Hilton
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Germaphobes will be relieved not to have to touch a hotel room remote control again.
It's still light years away before hotels offer voice-controlled guest rooms, but Hilton Worldwide has taken a step toward that happy future by adding a feature to its mobile app that lets your smartphone act like a remote control for key room functions.
At select properties, users of the Hilton Honors app can control the TV, lighting, and temperature of their guest room.
But chances are small that your next stay at a Hilton this year will encounter the Jetsons-like functionality.
For the feature to work, a hotel has to have been one of the nearly
