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Give your own spot a value

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Give your own spot a value

Add 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.

Takes
About 4 minutes
Steps
2
First
Upload your own house picture and place its spots

What you end up with

The Energy house tile with Closed pointed at the house’s front door

  1. Add your own spot

    Choose the gear at the foot of the sidebar to open Settings.

    The account at the foot of the sidebar, with the gear beside it

    In the Settings menu, choose Houses, then your house, and choose Spots at the top.

    The Settings menu, with Houses saying 1 house

    Under the list of spots, type the name of your own spot, here Front door, and choose Add.

    The spots list, with Front door typed under it and Add

    Front door joins the list, not placed yet, and Tiledash asks where it is: tap your front door in the picture. A pin marks it.

    The house’s spots, with a pin on the front door

  2. Give it a value

    In the list of spots, choose Front door: it opens, placed on this side, with no values yet. Choose Add a value.

    Front door, placed, with Add a value under Values here

    Choose the field that appears, type front door sensor and choose its Contact Alarm. The value opens, with its reading, and the house saves by itself.

    The value picker with front door sensor typed, and the sensor’s readings below it

  3. Your front door on the house

    Open your Energy dashboard: the house shows whether your front door is open or closed, pointed at the door. Give the value a Label of its own in the house to name it as you like; every tile showing the house shows it.

    The Energy house tile with Closed pointed at the house’s front door