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Short walks through Tiledash, one step at a time, with a picture of each. Start at the top if you’re new.

  1. Tiledash with your Homey connected and the Your first dashboard window open, Home recommended1Sign in and connect your HomeyYour Tiledash account, made with your Homey account, and your Homey connected, ready for your first dashboard.2 min4 steps
  2. Your new Living room dashboard, empty, with Add a widget in the middle2Make your first dashboardA dashboard of your own, with its name in the sidebar, ready for its first widgets.3 min3 steps
  3. The Living room dashboard with the floor lamp, the thermostat and the weather station3Add your first widgetsA lamp, your thermostat and the weather station on your dashboard, live, with the lamp made as tall as the thermostat.4 min7 steps
  4. The Living room dashboard on a phone, the thermostat first and the floor lamp below it4Arrange tiles for each screen sizeGive your dashboard its own layout for phones, with the thermostat first and the weather station left out, while tablets and desktops keep theirs.5 min7 steps
  5. The sidebar with Energy, and the Rooms group open with Bedroom, Living room, Kitchen and Garden in it5Tidy your sidebarPut your room dashboards in a group of their own, hide a page you rarely use, and make quick changes with a right-click.4 min7 steps
  6. The e-ink screen showing the Hallway panel in black and white, with Updated 19:30 in the corner6Connect an e-ink screenAn e-ink screen on your wall running a wall panel, paired with a code and without your login on it, in the theme you pick from your account.4 min7 steps
  7. The front door lock after unlocking, with Unlock listed under Ask for the PIN before7Protect an action with a PINSet your PIN, choose which device action asks for it, and try unlocking your front door.5 min6 steps
  8. Robin’s sidebar, with Family under Shared by Alex8Let your household into your HomeySomeone else who uses your Homey asked to join. Let them in, choose which rooms they may see or switch, and share a dashboard with them.3 min8 steps
  9. The Electricity tab with From your Homey chosen and the price of a kWh now under it9Set up your energy prices and metersCheck where your electricity price comes from, see today’s prices, add gas and water prices, and check the meters the energy widgets count.3 min6 steps
  10. The house editor’s preview, with the detached house showing solar, car, house use, grid and battery values10Start your house in 3D from a Tiledash housePick one of Tiledash’s ready-made 3D houses, with its solar, battery, car and the rest already marked, and see how your energy shows on it.3 min6 steps
  11. The house editor’s preview of the picture Tiledash made, with solar, house use, car, battery and grid values11Turn a photo of your house into a 3D pictureUpload a photo of your house, answer a few questions, and let Tiledash make a 3D picture of it with its solar, battery, car and the rest already marked.5 min7 steps
  12. The house editor’s preview of your own picture, with its solar, house use, car, battery and grid12Upload your own house picture and place its spotsUpload a 3D picture of your house you already have, crop it to the house, and mark where your solar, battery, car and the rest are, one tap each.5 min6 steps
  13. The house editor with the uploaded picture, ready to crop13Make a picture of your house in your own chatLet Tiledash write the prompt for a picture of your house, make it in ChatGPT or Gemini, and upload what it makes.5 min6 steps
  14. The Energy dashboard with your house, its solar, car, house use, grid and battery, and Outside by the tree14Show your house on a dashboardPut your 3D house on a dashboard with the Energy house widget, choose which house it shows, and give its garden the temperature outside.4 min5 steps
  15. The Energy house tile with Front and Back tabs, showing the back of the house15Show the front and back of your houseGive your house a second side with its own picture and spots, and move between the sides on the Energy house tile with tabs.4 min5 steps
  16. The Energy house tile with Closed pointed at the house’s front door16Give your own spot a valueAdd a spot of your own to your house’s picture, such as the front door, and show a sensor’s reading there on the Energy house tile.4 min2 steps
  17. The Living room dashboard with the armchair on its tile, glowing in the lamp’s light17Show a 3D model on a tileAn armchair on your dashboard, turned the way you like in 3D, glowing while the sofa lamp is on.3 min7 steps
  18. The Hallway dashboard with the Big temperature tile, the weather station at 13.5°18Make your own widgetA widget of your own that shows a sensor's temperature in large type, made from three short pieces of code, saved and on your dashboard.5 min7 steps
  19. Big temperature's page in the community, by Demo Creator @creator, version 1.0.0 under the MIT License19Publish your widget to the communityYour widget in the community under a name of your own, for anyone to install, from the editor in a few steps.3 min5 steps
  20. Tiledash installed in ChatGPT, with Try in chat available20Connect Tiledash to your AIAdd Tiledash’s MCP server to your assistant, sign in, and review the access before connecting.5 min4 steps
  21. Connected under AI assistants, saying no assistant is connected yet21Disconnect an AI assistantTake an AI assistant’s access to your Tiledash away, so its key and preview links stop at once.2 min4 steps
  22. The studio desk in an office, shown in 3D22Build a model with your AIDescribe a desk, refine it in a live preview, and place your new furniture in a floor plan.10 min7 steps
  23. The Living room dashboard in the new theme, with waves and stars behind its tiles and the floor lamp’s tile filled23Make your first themeStart a theme from Tiledash’s own, give it a colour, a moving background and tiles that fill when on, and put it on a dashboard.5 min7 steps
  24. The Living room dashboard in Harbour night, deep blue with waves behind its tiles and the lamp’s tile filled warm yellow24Make a theme with your AIDescribe a theme, watch it in a live preview, ask for a change, see each save in History, and put it on a dashboard.5 min5 steps