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Homes

Introduction

An account contains one or more homes. Each home represents a separate physical site, dwelling, or premises, for example, a holiday house or office, where your devices physically exist. Shelly devices, automations, scenes, schedules, and home-level subscriptions are configured at the level of a specific home.

You can use the Home tab to manage several homes under one account. You can also share full or controlled access to a specific home with your family or other Shelly Smart Control users.

Adding homes

  1. Go to the Settings menu > Home tab.

  2. In the Home tab, go to the Homes panel.

  3. Tap the +Add home button.

  4. In the next screen, tap the Create new home option.

  5. In the next screen, specify the following information about your home:

  • Home name - enter a clear and unique name to ensure that you can easily identify the home in your account

  • Home avatar - upload a new avatar or select from the default pictures

  1. In the next screen, review the summary of your changes.

  2. Tap the Add home button.

Switching between homes

When you log in to your account, you are prompted to select a home. Your avatar displays the picture of the home you are currently in.

To switch to another home in your logged-in account:

  1. Tap your profile avatar located on the top-right or top-left corner of the screen (depending on the layout version of your application).

  2. In the context menu, tap the arrow select_home_button.png to expand the list with your homes.

  3. Select a home. Your avatar changes with the picture of the current home.

Moving devices to another home

  1. Go to the My home menu > All devices tab.
    or
    Go to the My home menu > All rooms tab and tap a specific room.

  2. Tap the three-dots three-dots_icon_old_layout.png icon located in the toolbar above your devices list.

  3. In the context menu, tap the Transfer devices button.

  4. Select the empty checkbox next to the device that you want to move. You can move more than one device at the same time.

  5. Tap the Transfer button.

  6. Select the To another home in this account option.

  7. Select the home to which you want to move the device.

  8. Tap the Move button.

Where to find your moved device

Switch to the home that received the device, then go to the My home menu > All devices tab. You can find your device in the list and add it to a preferred room in your account.

Transferring homes to another account

IMPORTANT: Transferring your only remaining home also deletes your account.

  1. Go to the Settings menu > Home tab.

  2. In the Home tab, go to the Homes panel.

  3. Find the home that you want to transfer.

  4. Tap the transfer {509AC8A6-EDCA-44B2-BE0F-60EEEB54B955}-20260618-152938.png button.

  5. In the new screen, select the account to which you want to transfer the home.

  6. Tap the Next button.

Result: The application transfers your home, along with all devices in it, to the selected account.

Deleting homes

IMPORTANT: Deleting a home detaches and deletes its devices.
Deleting your only remaining home also deletes your account.

  1. Go to the Settings menu > Home tab.

  2. In the Home tab, go to the Homes panel.

  3. Find the home that you want to delete. You cannot delete the home you are currently in.

  4. Tap the delete delete_button.png button next to the home that you want to delete.

  5. Review the confirmation message.

  6. Hold the delete button for 5 seconds to delete the home.

Home settings

After you create a home, you can review and edit its settings by using the different submenus in the Settings > Home tab.

Home info

In the Home info submenu, you can view the name, ID, and current subscription plan of the home. The following actions are available:

  • Editing the home name and avatar picture

  • Upgrading the current plan of the home

My homes

In the My homes submenu, you can view and manage your own homes and the homes that have been shared with you.

Share home access

In the Share home access submenu, you can invite people to share access to your home.

Sharing home access

  1. Go to the Settings menu > Home tab.

  2. Go to the Share home access panel.

  3. Tap the Invite to home button.

  4. In the new screen, specify the name and email address of the user to whom you grant access permissions for your home.

  5. Specify the access permissions per action. For example, if you select Full access in the Allow to run scenes option, you enable the user to run scenes in the shared home.

  6. Tap the Invite to home button. The user will receive an email with an invitation to your home.

Change application background

In the Change application background submenu, you can customize the background theme of the application in the context of your home. Upload your own picture or select a picture from the Gallery backgrounds section.

Location

In the Location submenu, you can manage the location settings of your home.

Timezone

IMPORTANT: If the time of the device is not synced with the current time, schedules and actions may not work as expected.

The application automatically detects your timezone and location. To set them manually, select a timezone from the dropdown list.
If automatic detection fails, tap the Autodetect location button to try again.

Privacy and security

In the Privacy and security submenu, you can secure the settings of your devices.

Lock PIN

The application requires PIN authentication before modifying device settings. When you configure a lock PIN, you must activate it in the settings panel of the specific device.
Additionally, you can enable biometric authentication when a PIN is required.

Customizations

In the Customizations submenu, you can modify the appearance of your application in the context of your home.

Manage pictures

Use the section to add or remove avatar pictures in your application menus.

Access and permissions

In the Access and permissions submenu, you can control who can access your home and the devices in it.

Grant installer access

Granted installer access enables installers to work on your home. You can revoke access at any time.

Cloud key

The authorization cloud key enables control over the devices in your home via Shelly Cloud Control API.

Personalization

In the Personalization submenu, you can adapt the appearance and behavior of menus in the context of your home.

Use this section to reorder the menu items in the main navigation bar. For example, drag the Settings menu to a second position in your main navigation bar.

Note: The first item that you set will be the page that you land on when you open the application.

Statistics

Use this section to control how energy consumption statistics are displayed. The following settings are available:

  • Default statistics period - specifies the default period that initially loads in all energy consumption charts, for example, the History chart in the Energy menu

  • Energy consumption comparison - enables the comparison of energy consumption for the previous period. If you enable the option, a yellow line appears in the Chart tab of the device to show the energy consumption for the exact same previous statistics period (if any).