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Words in Tiledash

Words in Tiledash

Tiledash uses Homey’s own words where it can: Flows, Moods, Favourites, Insights. Where Homey says zone, Tiledash says room, because that’s what most zones are. The rest are short explanations of words you’ll meet in the app.

On your dashboards

  • Dashboard: a wall of tiles for one Homey. You can have several, for example one per room or one for the wall tablet. See Your dashboards.
  • Tile: one box on a dashboard. It shows a device, a Flow, a Mood or a value, and does something when you tap it.
  • Widget: the kind of tile, its look. A light can be a small switch or a big dimmer: two widgets for the same device.
  • Heading: a title that groups the tiles under it, often a room’s name.
  • Summaries: small live figures next to a dashboard’s name or a heading, such as “3 lights on” or the temperature.
  • Stack: tiles on top of each other in one spot, swiped through like pages.
  • Flow: an automation in Homey. A tile can start a Flow that can be started by hand.
  • Mood: a saved setting of a room’s lights and devices in Homey. A tile can set a Mood.
  • Favourites: the devices, Flows and Moods you starred in the Homey app.
  • Preset: a saved style for tiles (colours, corners, a background), on the style panel’s Presets tab. Tiles linked to it change together.
  • Theme: the colours, fonts and shapes of a whole dashboard. See Themes and styling.

Screens

  • Wall panel: a tablet on the wall that shows one or more dashboards, swipes between them, sleeps and wakes for alerts. See Wall panels and e-ink.
  • Pair a screen: link a tablet or e-ink screen to Tiledash with the code it shows, without logging in on it.
  • Kiosk app: an app or browser on a tablet that shows one web page full screen and opens it on start, such as Fully Kiosk.
  • Alert: a message that takes over a wall panel’s screen when something needs you, such as smoke or water.
  • Keypad and PIN: a code a tile asks for before it does something, like opening the garage.

Keeping things

  • Recording: Tiledash keeping the history of a reading (a temperature, the power used) so charts and summaries can show it. Settings › Recordings lists them. See History and recording.
  • Floor plan: a drawing of your house with your devices on it. See Draw your floor plan.

Making your own

You never need these to have a great dashboard; see From using to making.

  • Community: widgets, themes and furniture other people made, ready to install.
  • Installed: used as it is from the Community, with its maker’s updates.
  • A copy: your own version of a widget or theme, to change. The original stays as it is.
  • Workshop: where everything you make lives. See The Workshop.
  • Partial: a piece of a widget (like a header row) that several of your widgets share. Change it once and they all follow.
  • Custom CSS: style rules you write yourself, for one tile or a whole theme. Parts you can style lists the names you can use.
  • AI assistant: Claude, ChatGPT or another app connected to Tiledash, which can build widgets and dashboards with you. See Connect your AI assistant.