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Add your first widgets

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Add your first widgets

A lamp, your thermostat and the weather station on your dashboard, live, with the lamp made as tall as the thermostat.

Takes
About 4 minutes
Steps
7
First
Make your first dashboard

What you end up with

The Living room dashboard with the floor lamp, the thermostat and the weather station

  1. Open the widget picker

    Open your empty Living room dashboard and choose Add a widget. The Add widgets window opens, with your devices listed by room.

    The empty Living room dashboard, with Add a widget below An empty wall

  2. Pick a lamp

    Type floor lamp in the search at the top. Only what matches is left. Tick Floor lamp: its looks show on the right, with Light marked Recommended, and the footer says 1 selected.

    The Add widgets window with floor lamp typed in the search and Floor lamp below it

  3. Add the thermostat

    Type thermostat and tick Living room thermostat. The lamp stays ticked: the footer now says 2 selected, and Thermostat is the recommended look.

    The search says thermostat, with Living room thermostat below it and the lamp's looks on the right

  4. Add the weather station

    Type weather and tick Weather station. Its looks show on the right, and the button at the bottom now says Add 3 widgets.

    The search says weather, with Weather station below it and the thermostat's looks on the right

  5. Add them

    Choose Add 3 widgets. The window closes and the lamp, the thermostat and the weather station are on your dashboard. It’s in edit mode now, ready to arrange, and a message says 3 widgets added.

    The weather station ticked, its Climate look recommended, and Add 3 widgets

  6. Make the lamp taller

    In edit mode, each tile has a corner bracket at its bottom right. Drag the lamp’s bracket down until the size on the lamp says 3 × 6: as tall as the thermostat. The dashboard saves by itself, and the header says Saved.

    The lamp and the thermostat in edit mode, with an arrow from the lamp's corner down to the thermostat's bottom

  7. Finish editing

    Choose Done at the top right. Edit mode ends, and the dashboard menu (⋯) is back where Done was.

    The Living room dashboard in edit mode, the lamp as tall as the thermostat, with Saved and Done at the top right

  8. Your widgets are live

    The lamp says it’s On, the thermostat can be turned up and down, and the weather station shows the temperature and humidity in your garden. They change as your home does.

    To change what a tile shows or how it looks, edit the dashboard and open the tile’s menu: see configure and style a tile. Every widget is in the widget gallery. Next: arrange tiles for each screen size, so your phone shows them its own way.

    The Living room dashboard with the floor lamp, the thermostat and the weather station