Alerts
When something happens at home, Tiledash tells every screen you have open. A wall panel wakes from its sleep screen and shows the alert full screen, with the camera that sees it; other screens show a bar along the top. Alerts are free on every plan.
Set the rules
The rules are under Settings › Alerts (the gear beside your name at the bottom of the sidebar). There is no Save button: changes save by themselves.
Every device on your Homey that can alert is listed already, with its room, in two groups:
- Danger: smoke, carbon monoxide, water and sirens. They wake the screens day and night unless you say otherwise.
- News: the doorbell, motion and doors and windows. The doorbell always alerts; motion and doors only while the alarm is armed.
For each device you choose when it wakes the screens, Always, While armed, At night or Never, and which camera to show: its room’s cameras, one camera, or No camera.
Below the devices:
- Armed means picks your home alarm. Partly armed counts as armed. Without an alarm, While armed never alerts.
- Night sets the hours for alerts set to At night, 23:00 to 07:00 to start with, in each screen’s own time.
- Chime on alerts beeps for danger and rings for the doorbell. A browser lets it sound after one tap on the screen.
- Flow to offer puts a button on danger alerts that starts a flow, such as “Everyone out”.
Screens that wake for alerts lists your wall panels. Ticking one is the same as Wake for alerts in that panel’s own settings, which is on for every new panel. A change reaches a panel within ten minutes, without reloading it.
When an alert goes off
A wall panel that wakes for alerts lights up and shows the alert full screen, and stays on while it lasts. It shows what happened (Smoke, Water leak, Someone at the door), the room and the device, since when, and the device’s other readings. Several alerts at once show as tabs, the most urgent first.
Its buttons:
- Silence here stops the beeping on that screen. The next danger alert sounds again.
- Start “…” runs the flow you chose, on danger alerts.
- Disarm the alarm, while it is armed, after asking.
- Open the camera and Open device.
- ✕ closes the alert to a bar along the top, which stays while the alert lasts.
Every other screen where you are logged in shows that bar, with View to open the alert.
When the readings calm down, the screen says All clear and closes after ten seconds. A doorbell alert lasts a minute after the last press. When a screen opens while something is already going on, only danger is announced; the rest is listed quietly.
On an e-ink screen an alert is black on white, with nothing moving. Share links and paired screens don’t show alerts.
Cameras
An alert shows up to two cameras, live: the one you chose for the device, or else the device itself if it has a camera (a video doorbell), then the cameras in its room. Open the camera shows the first one large.
Waking a screen that is off
A browser can keep a screen on, but can’t switch one on that has gone dark. Keep the panel’s screen on with Keep the screen on in its wall panel settings and let it fall asleep to Tiledash’s own sleep screen, or use a kiosk browser that can turn the screen on, such as Fully Kiosk.