Share your Homey with your household

Everyone in your home can use Tiledash with their own Homey account. The account that brought the Homey to Tiledash owns it there. Anyone else whose Homey account has the same Homey asks you, and you decide who gets in and what each person may see and switch.

They never get your login. Tiledash checks everything they see and every tap against what you chose, on its server.

Ask to join someone’s Homey

When you log in and pick a Homey that someone else already uses on Tiledash, Tiledash says so and offers Ask <name> instead of connecting it. You can add a short note.

• A page then waits for the answer and moves on by itself. You also get an email when the owner decides.
• You can withdraw the request while you wait.
• A request runs out after 14 days. After a no, you can ask again a week later.
• On Tiledash’s waitlist you can ask too. Once the owner says yes, you get in as soon as Tiledash has a place for you.

Only the person who owns the Homey at Homey can bring it to Tiledash. Others with access wait until the owner has, then ask.

Let someone in

The tutorial Let your household into your Homey goes through it step by step.

A new request shows in Settings › People, with the person’s name, email and note, and you get an email. Let in… opens what they may use, Deny says no.

Choose a starting point:

• Full control: every room and device.
• View everything: look, don’t touch.
• Only these rooms: nothing until you tick rooms.
• Custom: any mix.

Then set each room, and if you like each device, to Hidden, View or Control. A room’s setting goes for the rooms inside it; a device’s own setting wins. Pick the flows they may start and the Logic variables they may see. Energy, History, Cameras and Share turn on what else they may use. The bottom of the editor counts what they will see and switch.

People who are guests on your Homey at Homey only ever look, whatever you choose.

Who uses your Homey

Settings › People lists everyone on the Homey: you, and each person with what they may use, how many devices they see and switch, and when they were last here. Activity lists who asked, who you let in, what changed, who left and any tap Tiledash refused.

The ⋯ on a person’s row has the rest:

• What they may use… changes what someone may use. It takes effect at once, also on screens they have open.
• Share dashboards… picks your dashboards and floor plans they may see. They find them under Shared by <your name> in their sidebar, with tiles of devices they may not see shown as unavailable. They can’t change them, but Make a copy gives them their own to change. When something you share shows devices they can’t see yet, Tiledash asks whether they may see or switch them too, all at once or one by one; Share without them keeps those hidden.
• Remove… ends their access at once, with their own dashboards for your Homey.

With several Homeys, a picker at the top of People switches between them.

Using someone else’s Homey

A Homey you were let in to shows in Settings › Profile as shared by its owner. You see the rooms and devices you may use, live, and make dashboards of your own on it. Recordings and the Homey’s energy settings stay with its owner.

On someone else’s Homey, their plan counts for what you make and use there: on a Pro owner’s Homey you have Pro’s room and features, shown as Pro from <their name> under your name. That includes themes of your own: you can make and change them there, and they stay yours. Your own Homeys stay on your own plan. Settings › Plan lists the Homeys you were let in to with whose plan counts on each.

Leave… stops using it. Your own dashboards for it go with it, and you can ask again later.

Plan limits

What your people make on your Homey counts against your plan’s limits together with your own: on Free, with one floor plan allowed, whoever makes it first uses it.

If you go back from Pro to Free with more people, nobody is removed. You choose who keeps using your Homey; the others are paused until you go Pro again.