User guide

Each page here covers one part of the app. Nothing depends on anything else, so start wherever your question is.

• Dashboards

  Edit mode, buttons, stacks, badges, popups, pages, actions and visibility rules.

• Widgets

  Every widget the app ships with, what it needs, and what it does.

• Rooms

  The Rooms page, room detail screens, and the per-room counters.

• Controls and screens

  Per-domain dialogs, and the dedicated Climate, Energy, Security, Vacuum and Battery screens.

• Appearance

  Theme, colours, fonts, corners, icon animation, header style and language.

• Notifications

  How push works, the payload fields supported, action buttons, and the history.

• Event timeline

  A live feed of what the house has been doing, read from Home Assistant's logbook.

• Presence and location

  Geofences, device trackers, the sensors HKI 7 reports, and why it is easy on the battery.

• Family sharing

  Shared dashboards, parental controls, permissions and device management.

• Backup and restore

  Local files, Google Drive, and backups stored on your own Home Assistant.

• Multiple homes

  Running more than one Home Assistant from a single app.