Make the dashboard your own

Check what the Dashboard shows

Dashboard is the household landing screen. It shows weather for the home’s address, the home’s clock, and the devices or routines the household has pinned. The board is saved on the home, so the same pins appear on web and phone for that home.

If the board is empty, it says Nothing pinned yet. If it cannot load, it says The board could not be read. Those two states mean different things.

Pin a device or routine

1. Open the device or routine you want to add.
2. Choose Pin to dashboard.Pin to dashboard
3. Return to Dashboard to see it on the board.
4. If the button already says On the dashboard, the item is already pinned. Choosing On the dashboard removes the pin.On the dashboard

Use a pinned routine

A pinned routine can be opened for its details first, or run directly from the Dashboard depending on platform.

1. On the phone, tap the pinned routine tile to open it. To run it from Dashboard, hold the pinned routine tile.
2. Keep holding until the label changes from Hold to run to Keep holding to run, then let go to run the routine.
3. On the web, open the routine card and use Run now. The web card does not use the same hold gesture as the phone.

Choose where Music plays

Music follows the current dashboard rules, but the phone’s Music screen begins without a room chosen. Music starts with no room selected.

1. Open Music from the Dashboard or from the Music tile.
2. Choose a room before you send a play command.
3. If you hold the dashboard Music tile while rooms are already playing, Holding Music pauses rooms that are playing.
4. If no room is playing, holding Music opens the unselected Music screen instead of resuming a remembered room.

Weather and home settings

Weather comes from the home’s saved address and the home’s timezone. If the address was never saved, or if the place was not found, the weather card cannot invent a result.

1. On the web, open Home settings and save the home’s address if it is missing.
2. If the address was saved but not found, enter a clearer street, city, or country.
3. Set the home timezone in web Home settings if the clock is wrong.
4. Use your own units in your personal Settings if you want metric or imperial readings to follow your account.

What you should see afterwards

• Pinned devices and routines stay on the Dashboard for that home.
• A pinned item shows On the dashboard until you remove it.
• A routine tile shows its last result, such as Not run yet, It did not run, Ran with a failure; see Routines, Done, or Running.
• Weather and the home clock stay tied to the home’s saved address and timezone.
• The phone and web still show the same saved board for the same home.

Troubleshooting

1. If you do not see your pin, open the device or routine again and check whether the button says Pin to dashboard or On the dashboard.Pin to dashboardOn the dashboard
2. If Dashboard says Nothing pinned yet, add a pin from a device or routine page.
3. If Dashboard says The board could not be read, try again after the home reconnects.
4. If weather is missing, confirm that the home has a saved address and that the address was found.
5. If a routine did not behave as expected, open it and read its last result before trying again.
6. If Music opened without a room selected, choose a room before pressing play on the phone.