There's almost an infinite number of combinations of possibilities when it comes to creating home automation projects, and one minimal example has been demosntrated by Instructables member Samuel LIU who shows how to control AC relays with his iPhone and a Raspberry Pi.
The communication between the two devices is via a local WiFi router, and both the iPhone and Pi are running python scripts to create an interface on the phone and for the Pi to interpret the incoming control requests and switch a GPIO pin for relay control. A quick demonstration is shown in the following video:
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