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Your settings

Your settings

Everything under Settings in Tiledash, other than your account and privacy.

Settings

The gear beside your name at the bottom of the sidebar opens Settings; on a phone, your initials at the top right open a menu that starts with Settings. Its groups are in three parts, each saying what is set now under its name:

  • Account: Profile (you, your Homeys, backups, your data and deleting your account), Plan (what you pay and use, and the plans side by side), General (language, region, maps, and guided tours and tips), Themes, Pictures (your pictures), What’s new (the changes of the latest releases, with the data sources Tiledash credits at its foot) and Discord (the invite to Tiledash’s Discord server). A dot on the gear says a release is new to you. When a release brings something new, Tiledash also shows it once when you next open it: what changed, with a tutorial or the guide for each, until you choose Got it or See everything new. A release of fixes only shows the dot.
  • Your home: Energy, Houses, Floor plans, Alerts, Calendars, Keypads and Recordings.
  • Sharing: Links and screens and AI assistants.

On a phone, Settings opens on the list of groups. Folding the sidebar to its icons folds the Settings menu to icons as well. Your name itself opens a short menu: This device…, Edit sidebar, Hide the sidebar and Log out.

Your Homeys

Settings › Profile lists your Homeys. Show this one switches between them, and Add a Homey connects another while your plan has room.

If a Homey is no longer on your Homey account (you removed it there, or moved it to another account), or Homey stops letting Tiledash reach it, a banner on top of every page says so, and the Homey is marked in this list. Tiledash keeps trying for a few days, then waits for you. Log in with Homey checks again, for example after you added it back or logged in with the account it is on now. Remove… takes it out of Tiledash, with its dashboards, floor plans, wall panels and recorded history; the Homey itself isn’t touched, and you can connect it again later.

Language and region

Settings › General › Language & region sets the language Tiledash speaks to you and how it writes dates, times and numbers.

Language

Under Language, choose English, Dutch, German, Spanish, French, Norwegian, Swedish or Danish (the last three are new and marked Beta until a person has checked them). Auto is the default: it follows the language your browser asks for, and English when your browser asks for something else. A change applies at once, without reloading, and follows you to every device you log in on.

A language with a Beta mark next to it is translated by AI and not yet checked by a person, so a sentence can still sound a little off. The whole app is translated, from dashboards, wall panels and share links to editing, the account, themes, devices, the community and the widget editor. A few things are still English for now: the names and readings Homey gives (such as capability names), the words inside built-in widgets, and the widget editor’s reference of what a template can use. They follow in later releases.

A share link is shown in the viewer’s browser language, and in yours when theirs is not one of the five.

Region and formats

Under Region & formats, choose a region such as United Kingdom, United States, Netherlands, Belgium (Dutch or French), Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France, Spain, Mexico, Ireland, Australia or Canada. It decides:

  • the order of day, month and year, and whether times use 12 or 24 hours;
  • the decimal comma or point and how percentages are written, so 62% in the United Kingdom is 62 % in Germany, and 21.5°C is 21,5 °C;
  • the day a week starts on.

Under the dropdown, an example line shows how a date, a time and a number look with your choice. A change applies at once. A share link shows the viewer’s own browser settings instead.

Auto is the default. It follows your language and browser: a browser set to Dutch (Belgium) gets Belgian formats, and one that asks for something Tiledash does not have gets the usual formats for its language. If Auto picks something you don’t like, choose a region by hand.

Wall panels can have a language and a region of their own.

Guided tours and tips

Settings › General › Guided tours and tips lists every short tour with how far you got: Your first dashboard, Put a dashboard on the wall, Dashboard settings and The floor planner. Start walks one again on your start dashboard (the floor planner’s in your first plan). Tours never start by themselves: Tiledash offers each once, and the (?) on a screen starts its tour any time. The account menu’s Guided tours comes here too.

Tiledash also shows a few one-time tips: a Did you know? at the ⋯, a line at the foot of Add widgets, the style panel and a Community widget’s settings, and one in the Workshop. They lead you to the next thing you might like, one level at a time (see From using to making). Switch Show tips off to silence every one of them, on every device; Show tips again brings back the ones you put away.

Pictures

Settings › Pictures keeps your pictures in one place: those you uploaded for a wallpaper or a tile, and those of your houses and floor plans, each in a group of its own. At the top you see how many you have and how much room they take: up to 50 pictures and 40 MB together. Upload… adds one (PNG, JPEG or WebP, up to 10 MB); filter on In use or Not used, or search by name.

When you choose a picture for a wallpaper or a tile, the library also has From Tiledash: pictures Tiledash made for this, grouped in collections, that anyone can use. They don’t count towards your 50 pictures or 40 MB, and they don’t show here.

Open a picture to see it large, with what shows it: a dashboard’s wallpaper (and on which screen sizes), a tile, a side of a house, a floor plan or a piece of furniture. Give it another name there, or delete it. Before deleting, Tiledash lists what loses it: a tile shows its icon instead, and a wallpaper lets go of it (a phone, tablet or night picture falls back to the desktop or day one; without the desktop one the dashboard keeps only its scene, or has no wallpaper). A picture of a house or a floor plan is deleted with that house or plan, not here.

Calendars

Widgets can show the events of your calendars: Google Calendar, iCloud, Outlook or any calendar with an iCal link.

  1. Under Settings › Calendars, choose Add a calendar.
  2. Give it a name, paste its private iCal link and pick a colour. Links that start with webcal:// work too.
  3. Where to find the link in the dialog says where each calendar app shows it. Google Calendar calls it Secret address in iCal format; iCloud and Outlook publish a calendar to get one.

Anyone holding a private link can read that calendar, so Tiledash keeps it encrypted and never shows it again. Editing a calendar says which site its link is from; paste a new link to replace it. The events loaded from it are kept encrypted too.

Tiledash loads each calendar again every 15 minutes while a widget shows it, and keeps its events from today until 30 days ahead. Repeating events show each time they happen.

When a link stops working, the card says since when and why: the link is gone (the calendar was unshared or its link reset), the server refused, it isn’t a calendar, it is over 5 MB, or the server didn’t answer. Widgets keep showing its events as they last were, and can say that the calendar can’t be loaded. Try again loads it at once.

A widget shows calendars when it has a Calendars setting: all your calendars, or the ones you tick. On a wall panel, a paired screen or a share link, a tile shows the events of the calendars it picks too, and nothing of the others. Calendars settings covers making such a widget.

Free keeps 1 calendar and Pro 10. Back on Free, the newest ones are paused until you go Pro again.

Your PIN

Keypads on your dashboards, wall panels and share links ask for your PIN before they unlock, disarm or open something. Set it under Settings › Keypads: 4 to 8 digits, typed twice.

  • Tiledash keeps it as a scrambled code, encrypted, so nobody can read it back, Tiledash included. Changing it needs no old PIN; being logged in is enough.
  • After five wrong tries in a row, every keypad of your account waits five minutes.
  • It isn’t in a backup or in your data download. After a restore, set it again.
  • Each PIN of your account has its own digits: Tiledash says so when you pick digits already in use.

Ask for the PIN before an action

For a walkthrough with pictures, follow Protect an action with a PIN.

You can make a device ask for your PIN before something happens to it: unlocking the front door, opening the garage door, disarming the alarm, or turning off a plug that must stay on.

  1. Open the device, from the Devices page or from a tile.
  2. Under Ask for the PIN before, choose Add an action… and pick one, such as Unlock. It shows as a badge; its × stops it asking. Each action is separate, so Unlock can ask while Lock doesn’t. A device with many actions has a search at the top of the list.

Nothing asks until you pick it. Once picked, the action asks for your PIN on wall panels, paired screens, share links and in the app, wherever it starts: a tile, a button or the device itself. After the right PIN, that screen doesn’t ask again for a minute. Tiledash checks this on its server too, so a share link can’t skip it.

Without a PIN on your account the actions are greyed out, with a button to set one.

Other PINs

Your own PIN unlocks everything that asks for one. To let someone do only some of it, such as your kids opening the front door but not turning off the heat pump, give them a PIN of their own:

  1. Under Settings › Keypads, choose Add a PIN, name it (such as Kids) and type its 4 to 8 digits twice. Add as many as you like.
  2. Open the device and tap the badge of an action that asks for a PIN, such as Unlock. Tick the PINs that may unlock it too. The badge then shows their names.

A keypad tile takes your own PIN, and the other PINs ticked in its PINs setting, if its widget has one. What asks for a PIN, under the PINs, lists every action that asks for one with the names of the PINs it takes; a device opens its details. The PINs themselves are never shown, and the names are in your data download, never the digits. Removing a PIN leaves the actions that took it asking for your own only.

Discord

Tiledash has a Discord server, where you can talk with other people who use it and with us: show your dashboards, ask how others did something, tell us what you’re missing or report a bug. Anyone can join; there’s nothing to apply for. Discord in the sidebar and Settings › Discord open the invite, and the foot of What’s new and of tiledash.app link to it too.

When you report a bug, say what you did, what you saw and on which device; a screenshot helps.