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Rooms & Categories

Browse your home by room or by category, with floor filters, live status and photos.

elausys · 17 June 2026
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Rooms

The Rooms page lists every room you have access to, grouped by floor, each with its live status. A room's own page shows its devices.

The all-rooms page

Rooms page in tiles mode — Phone layout.
Rooms page in tiles mode — Tablet layout.
Rooms page in tiles mode — Wall panel layout.
  • List or tiles — switch with the List / Tiles toggle at the top. Your choice is remembered (also settable in Settings → Page style, see “App Settings & Personalization”).
  • Floor filter — chips for each level let you show a single floor; each floor is a collapsible section.
  • Order — your favourite rooms come first, then the rest alphabetically (see “App Settings & Personalization”).
  • Live status — each room shows what is going on inside it right now (lights on, temperature, …).
  • Room photos — tiles show the room's photo when one is set; you can turn photos on tiles off in Settings → Page style → Room photos.
  • Long-press a room to pin it as a favourite, or to unpin it.

📘 Note: If your account has access to exactly one room, the app skips this page and takes you straight into that room.

A room's page

Room page — Phone layout.
Room page — Tablet layout.
Room page — Wall panel layout.

A room page shows, from top to bottom:

  • The room's photo banner (when a photo is set) and name.
  • A live summary — lights on, shutters, temperature and setpoint.
  • The room's global commands — all on, all off, shutters up / down — when the administrator enabled them for this room (see “Global Commands”).
  • The room's devices, grouped by category, as rows or tiles (List / Tiles toggle).
  • The room's favourite devices and scenes are previewed first, with see all for the rest.

The "what is on" drill-down

Wherever the app shows a count — "Lights · 3 on" on the home, a rooms rail, or a room page, or the Active now cards — tapping it opens the list behind the number.

"What is on" page — Phone layout.
"What is on" page — Tablet layout.
  • Devices are grouped by the room they are in.
  • Every row is a live control: switch a light off right from the list.
  • The list is a snapshot of the moment you opened it — a device you switch off shows "off" but stays on screen until you open the list again, so nothing disappears under your finger.

Categories

Categories are the second way to slice the house: instead of "everything in the kitchen", you get "all the lighting", "all the shutters", "all the heating". The pages work exactly like the room pages — same toggles, same gestures — so there is nothing new to learn.

Which categories exist is decided by your administrator. A typical installation starts with Lighting, Shutters, Heating, Sockets, Scenes, Energy and Security, but they can be renamed, removed or extended (see “Building Structure & Categories”).

Rooms and categories — the same grammar

RoomsCategories
Grouped byFloor (collapsible sections)— (one flat list)
FilterFloor filter chipsNone — a category spans the whole house
Device page grouped byCategoryRoom
List / Tiles toggleYesYes
Long-press to pinYesYes
Global commandsPer room, if enabledPer category, if enabled

The all-categories page

Categories page in tiles mode — Phone layout.
Categories page in tiles mode — Tablet layout.
Categories page in tiles mode — Wall panel layout.
  • List or tiles — the List / Tiles toggle at the top; also in Settings → Page style (see “App Settings & Personalization”).
  • Order — your favourite categories come first, then the rest alphabetically (see “App Settings & Personalization”).
  • Live status — each category shows its own counts (how many lights on, shutters closed, …).
  • Long-press a category to pin or unpin it as a favourite.

A category's page

Category page (Lighting) — Phone layout.
Category page (Lighting) — Tablet layout.
Category page (Lighting) — Wall panel layout.

A category page shows, from top to bottom:

  • The category's name and live summary.
  • The category's global commands — all on, all off, shutters up / down — when the administrator enabled them for this category (see “Global Commands”).
  • The category's devices, grouped by room, as rows or tiles (List / Tiles toggle).

Tapping a lights count here opens the same "what is on" drill-down as everywhere else.

💡 Tip: Categories shine for sweeping actions — "shutters down" on the Shutters category page reaches every shutter in the house in one tap, wherever it is.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the difference between rooms and categories?

Rooms organize devices by location, with devices grouped by category inside each room. Categories collect one kind of device across the building, grouped by room.

Why does the app skip the Rooms list?

If your account can access exactly one room, it opens that room directly.

How do I see which lights are on?

Tap a lights-on count or an Active now card. The resulting list contains live controls grouped by room.

Why does a light remain in the active list after I switch it off?

The list keeps the devices present when you opened it so rows do not disappear during use. Its state updates to off; reopening refreshes membership.

How do I move favorite rooms or categories to the front?

Long-press to pin them. Favorites appear before the remaining items, which are ordered alphabetically.

Keep exploring

Find the other guides for this product in the documentation.

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