Quick Start
There's an iPad kiosk on every floor. Walk up, tap the screen, and you're in. Prefer your phone? Scan the QR code in any room (or hit the URL on the welcome card) and the same controls open in your browser. Nothing to download, nothing to log into.
Open the kiosk or phone app and tap Movie Night. Lights dim to a warm glow, blackout shades lower, and the room settles into the right ambiance in one tap.
Tap Good Morning and the house eases awake. Lights come up gently, shades open, and the home shifts into daytime mode.
Heading to the terrace? Tap Rooftop on any kiosk and the outdoor spaces come alive with the right lighting and music waiting for you upstairs.
Tap the Music tile, pick a room (or the whole house), and choose a station, playlist, or AirPlay from your own phone. It runs through Sonos, so the audio is the same quality whether one room is playing or every room is.
Tap a room tile, then Lights. Slide for brightness, tap a color if the fixture supports it. The wall switches still work too, so guests who'd rather not touch a screen don't have to.
The home is divided into zones. Tap the Kitchen tile, then Lights, to control just the kitchen. Same for Bedroom, Living Room, Terrace, and so on. One tap per room, no menus to dig through.
Pro Tips
Multi-Room Music
Tap Music on any kiosk, pick the rooms you want, and the Sonos system fills them in sync. Morning coffee in the kitchen, a dinner party across the whole floor, a quiet song in just the bedroom. Same interface, one tap.
Scenes Are Pre-Set
Movie Night, Good Morning, and Rooftop are tuned and ready. You don't have to fiddle with individual lights, shades, or speakers. Tap the scene and the house handles the rest.
Local-Only, No Mics
The system runs on the home network. No accounts to create, no apps to download, no always-on microphones in any room. If you ever want voice control, the kiosk has a tap-to-talk button that uses your phone's mic only while you're holding it. Nothing leaves the house.
If Something's Not Working
iPad Kiosk Frozen / Black Screen
Tap the screen, then press the home button (or swipe up from the bottom edge on bezel-less iPads). If it's still frozen, force-restart: hold Power + Volume Down together until the Apple logo appears, about ten seconds. The phone webapp is your backup the whole time.
Phone Webapp Won't Load
Confirm your phone is on the home wifi (not cell data, not the guest network). The webapp is local-only and won't load otherwise. If you see a "Not secure" warning, tap Continue — that's expected for a local-only site. Safari handles local hostnames better than Chrome on iOS.
Scene Runs but One Room Doesn't Respond
Tap the scene again — radio packets get missed sometimes. If the iPad shows that fixture as offline (greyed out or red dot), it dropped off the local hub. Flip its wall switch off for one second and back on, or unplug a smart plug for a moment. If multiple rooms aren't responding, just text me.
iPad Says "Not Connected"
Force-quit the dashboard app and reopen. The local hub may be rebooting — wait two minutes. If it sticks around, text me; the hub probably needs a hand.