The controls face is the screen for the couch: tiles for the devices you pick yourself, room by room, with that room's scenes as buttons at the bottom. Tap a tile to switch something on or off. Hold it and the device fills the whole screen, big enough to control without aiming.
Steps: adding the face
- Pinch with two fingers, or swipe up from the bottom edge. The overview of your faces opens.
- Tap + next to Customize and choose Controls. The face is placed after the face that was in the middle, filled with the devices you have, by room.
- The rooms are at the top. Tap a room and you only see what is in it; that room's scenes are at the bottom.
- Prefer everything in one grid? Tap Customize, then OPTIONS › Layout › Whole Home. Under THEME you pick Night, Glass or Light.
Steps: changing the tiles
- Long-press an empty spot on the face. Edit mode opens, with the rooms below the bar.
- Tap + to add a device, − to remove one. Drag a tile to reorder, within the room. Pull the corner to make a tile bigger.
- Tap Done.
Full-screen control
| Device | Open with | What you do |
|---|---|---|
| Light | Hold the tile | Drag across the screen to set brightness; tap the bulb for on or off |
| Blind | Hold the tile | Drag to set how far it is open; the fill drops from the top, like the blind |
| Fan | Hold the tile | Drag to set the speed; if the fan has no speeds, just on and off |
| Lock | Hold the tile | One big button. Locking is immediate; unlocking asks for a second tap |
| Thermostat | Tap the number | ‹ and › for the number, the mode at the bottom right |
| Camera | Tap | Live view; the button at the bottom right shows your other cameras in a strip along the bottom |
Close with the cross at the top left. This also works on the tiles of the home face and of a companion, as long as the tile holds one device.
Check
- Tap a room and hold a light. The screen turns one color and the fill follows your finger; when you let go, the brightness goes to the light.
- Hold a lock and tap the button. It says Tap again to unlock; only on the second tap does the lock open.
Not working?
The rooms come from the devices on the face. Put the device in a room in Home Assistant or in the Home app, or choose Layout › Whole Home.
Only a tile with one device opens full screen. A tile with several devices (a group of lights) goes to edit mode on a long press; tap such a tile for on or off, and use the slider inside it.
That is on purpose: unlocking asks for a second tap, within a few seconds. Locking is immediate.
That fan does not report speeds to Home Assistant or HomeKit.