Manuals | casasmooth

Here is the detailed user guide for your casasmooth system.

Important: Available features depend on your installed devices and the packages you have subscribed to.

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Welcome

Welcome to casasmooth, your solution for a smart, reliable, and private home. casasmooth is designed to adapt to your life, automating your environment intuitively and securely.

The system is modular and is organized around functional packs that you can choose and combine:

lights: simple (standard) or advanced (enhanced) management of your lighting.
heating: basic temperature control (standard) or optimized by presence (enhanced).
security: monitoring and alerts (standard) or with complex scenarios and AI (enhanced).
and many others: shutters, energy, multimedia, etc., each with standard or "enhanced" integration levels.

The home section is the heart of your system, always available. It allows you to see the status of all your devices and control them directly, room by room.

casasmooth respects your privacy: it works offline and doesn't require the cloud. All your data stays secure, at home. If you wish, a backup of your configuration can be sent to our secure services to ensure easy recovery in case of a problem.

Getting started

Setting up your casasmooth system is a simple process designed to put you in control from the start.

Creating Accounts: The first step is to create accounts for your household members. This allows casasmooth to personalize experiences and manage access rights.
Device Pairing: Adding new devices (light bulbs, sensors, plugs) takes just a few steps. The most important thing is to give each device a clear name and, most importantly, assign it to a zone (e.g., "Sofa Lamp" in the "Living Room" zone). This assignment is essential because it allows casasmooth to understand the topology of your home and apply automations in the right place.
Total flexibility: Your home's layout isn't set in stone. Moving a floor lamp from the living room to the office? Simply change its zone assignment. Want to rename the "Office" to "Guest Room"? It's just as simple. casasmooth is designed to adapt: after a simple update lasting a few seconds, all the logic and automation will apply to the new configuration.
Service Integration: Once your devices are paired, you integrate casasmooth services. This is when you connect your system to your account by providing your information (email, mobile number for alerts, and your system's base URL).
Customization: You can adjust the appearance of your interface, including choosing a visual theme (dark or light) that suits you.
Remote access: To control your home from outside (via the mobile app or a web browser), casasmooth uses a secure connection (via Nabu Casa). This allows you to keep an eye on your home, arm the alarm, or adjust the heating, no matter where you are in the world.
Artificial Intelligence (AI): casasmooth incorporates advanced AI capabilities, allowing you to communicate with your home via chat or directly by voice to execute commands or ask questions about the status of your home.

Structure

The casasmooth interface is organized hierarchically to keep it simple and clear:

dashboard: this is the entire application, accessible via the main icons (home, security, energy, etc.).
sections: each icon on the dashboard opens a dedicated section (e.g. the “home” section, the “security” section).
Panels: Each section contains panels. In "Home", each area (e.g., "Kitchen", "Living Room") is a panel.
control panels: special panels, often hidden, allow you to adjust automations.
elements: these are the individual controls: switches, sliders, graphics, text fields, etc.

Sections and panels

Here is a comprehensive description of all sections and their panels.

Home section

The "Home" section is your home page. It groups all your devices by zone and gives you access to detailed configuration of the entire system.

Main Badges

At the top of the "home" section, you find three global status icons:

Settings: Tapping this icon shows or hides the large "Home" control panel. This is where you adjust what is visible on your dashboard.
Away: This button activates or deactivates "away" mode. In "away" mode, the house adapts automations (e.g., lowering the heating, activating certain alerts).
scenario: activates "playback" mode, which can be used to simulate a presence or play recorded lighting moods.

"Home" Control Panel

When you enable the "settings" badge, this panel appears. It allows you to fully customize the display of the "home" section.

base: this area contains useful links (help, documentation, support, faq) and allows you to choose the area panels (e.g. "kitchen", "living room") and general panels ("date & time", "welcome", "weather", "energy") that you want to display or hide on your home page.

Display: This panel controls the types of devices you see in your zones. You can choose to show or hide "thumbnails" (header images), zone "titles," category "subtitles" (like "lights," "sensors"), and then each device category:
- lighting: simple switches (on/off).
- lighting+: detailed control (intensity, color) for compatible lights.
- outlets, power outlets, scenes, automations, locks, sirens, batteries, sensors, hvac (heating/air conditioning), shutters (blinds), security, cameras, car, storage, kitchen (appliances), cleaning, vacuums, media, televisions, and settings (shortcuts).

Areas: This panel controls the visibility of the advanced control panels in each zone. If you enable "lighting" here, the lights control panel will appear in each zone (when you are in "settings" mode). The available areas are: "schedule", "lighting", "heating", "shutters", "weather", "security", "cameras".

General signs

date & time: displays the current time and date.
Welcome: A welcome panel with links to user and device configuration. It also contains the essential fields for linking your system to your casasmooth account:
- your email and phone number: required for notifications and services.
- casasmooth backup: button to start a manual backup.
- casasmooth services: button to synchronize services.
- Update Casa Smooth: This button updates your system. It is grayed out (locked) if an update is already in progress.
weather: displays detailed weather forecasts for your location.
Energy: Displays a summary of your energy consumption and production, with a date picker and distribution graph.

Typical area panel (example “living room”)

Each area you've created (e.g., "kitchen," "living room," "office") is represented by a similar panel. We'll use "living room" as a generic example to describe its structure.

Header: Displays the name of the area ("living room") and a series of "badges" (small icons) showing key measurements, such as current temperature, humidity, or brightness.
thumbnail: if enabled (via "display"), an image or live camera feed of the area is displayed.

lighting: a grid of tiles for each light in the "living room".
- action: pressing turns the light on or off.
- Display: If "lights+" is enabled in the "display" settings, compatible lights display a slider to adjust the intensity (and sometimes the color). Otherwise, it's a simple switch.

scenes: this panel allows you to create and recall light atmospheres.
- playbar (default):
  - robot icon: activates or deactivates lighting automations (e.g., switching on on movement) for the "living room".
  - 1, 2, 3, 4: buttons to instantly recall scenes 1, 2, 3 or 4.
  - Up arrow: Shows the recording bar.
- recording bar (after pressing the arrow):
  - 100%: button to turn on all the lights in the "living room" to 100%.
  - save 1, 2, 3, 4: After setting your lights as desired, press one of these buttons to store the current state as a scene.
  - down arrow: hides the recording bar and returns to the playback bar.

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automations: shortcuts for automations.
- robot icon: identical to the "robot" button in scenes, it activates/deactivates lighting automations.
- 100% / 50%: Buttons to quickly set all lights in the zone to 100% or 50%.

Batteries: Displays the battery level of all battery-powered devices in the "living room". The tile changes color depending on the level: green (ok), orange (< 50%), red (< 20%).

sensors: displays historical graphs (over 24 hours) for the area's sensors (temperature, humidity, brightness, precipitation, etc.).

security: displays the status of security sensors (motion, occupancy, opening detectors).

Video Surveillance: Displays live feeds from cameras assigned to the "Living Room" area.

shortcuts: visible if enabled in "display".
- crossed-out eye icon: Temporarily hides this "living room" area panel from the "home" section.
- gear icon: shows or hides the "living room" area-specific control panels (described below).

Zone control panels (example “living room”)

These panels, accessible via the area's "gear" icon, allow you to fine-tune all the "living room" automations.

"timetable" configuration
- Schedules: Allows you to manually set start times for the four periods of the day: day, dusk, night, and dawn.
- automates dawn, day and dusk: if this switch is activated, the system ignores manual times and automatically determines these periods (for example, based on sunrise and sunset or light sensors).

"lighting" configuration
- various parameters:
  - Welcome light secs: Duration (in seconds) the light stays on when you enter the area.
  - welcome sound: Enables or disables a welcome sound (if a speaker is present).
  - included in presence simulation: allows the lights in this zone to be used by the presence simulation controller.
  - enable tv scene: sets which scene number should be enabled when the TV is turned on.
- standard automations: switches to activate standard lighting (simple on/off) for each period (day, dusk, night, dawn).
- brightness in %: sliders to define the desired light intensity (from 0 to 100%) for each period.
- advanced automations (enhanced):
  - day, dusk, night, dawn switches: if activated, the lighting will only turn on during these periods if a presence is detected.
  - include cameras / include door sensors: allows you to use camera motion detections or door sensors as presence triggers for lighting.
- colors: drop-down lists to choose a color or white temperature (e.g. "warm white", "red") for each period.
- scenes: allows you to specify a scene number (1 to 4) to activate for each period, instead of just a color or brightness.
- Illuminations in lx: Brightness thresholds (in lux). Automatic lighting will only be triggered if the measured ambient light is lower than the value set for the current period (day, twilight, etc.).
- Delay in minutes: Sets the time (in minutes) the light will remain on after the last motion detection.

"heating" configuration
- temperatures °c: sliders to set the target temperature for each period (day, dusk, night, dawn) as well as a specific temperature for not at home mode.
- use presence (enhanced): switches so that the heating is only activated (for day, dusk, night, dawn periods) if a presence is detected.
- delays in minutes: waiting time after departure (no longer present) before turning off the heating.

“shutters” (blinds) configuration
- standard automations: switches to activate blind management for each period.
- position %: sliders (0-100%) to set the desired opening position for each period.
- Tilt %: Sliders (0-100%) to set the tilt of the slats (for Venetian blinds) for each period.
- Advanced Automations (Enhanced): Switches to enable advanced modes for each period.
- states (enhanced): Defines up to 4 brightness-based behaviors. For each state (1, 2, 3, 4), you set an illumination threshold in lx, a position % and a tilt %. This allows, for example, to close the blinds to 50% if the sun is strong (e.g. > 30000 lux), but to reopen them to 80% if it becomes veiled (e.g. < 15000 lux).

"weather" configuration
- weather: a simple switch to include in the weather data, allowing the sensors in that area (temperature, outdoor humidity) to contribute to the overall weather of the house.

"security" configuration
- alarm system:
  - Use zone sensors: Includes the sensors in this zone in the overall alarm system.
  - Weight: Defines the importance (the "weight") of the sensors in this zone. A higher weight means that events in this zone contribute more to triggering the alarm (see "Security" section).
  - Flash lights/sound: If the alarm is triggered, the lights in that zone will flash and the speakers will sound.
- cameras notification time: switches to allow notifications from cameras in this area for each time period (day, dusk, night, dawn).
- doors and windows:
  - check locks / close locks: Enables automatic checking or closing of the area's locks.
  - closing time / opening time: Sets the times for these automatic actions.
  - Check doors and windows / notify: Activates alerts if doors or windows in the area are left open.

“camera” configuration
- This panel groups the configurations of each camera assigned to the zone.
- panel by camera (eg: "video behind"):
  - recording settings: set the offset (time before the event starts), duration, frequency (0=never), fixed recording time (00:00=never) and anti-spam interval.
  - manual prompt test: button to test AI analyses.
  - use ai manifest: Enables AI image analysis for this camera.
  - instructions: free text field to give instructions to the AI (e.g. "ignore cars, alert me if a package is visible").
  - Sensor 1 to 4: 4 blocks to define virtual AI-based sensors. For each, you give a name, a question for the AI (e.g. "is there a person?"), a sensor type (e.g. presence, opening) and a unit of measurement (optional).

"Security" Section

This dashboard is dedicated to monitoring and managing your home security.

Main Badges

Settings: Shows/hides the configuration options for this dashboard.
Away: Shortcut to global "Away" mode.
Armed: Main switch to manually arm or disarm the alarm system.

Control Panel (Visible if "Settings" is enabled)

Allows you to choose which panels to display in this section:

Titles / Subtitles
Configuration: Displays the basic alarm settings.
Scheduler: Displays the auto arm/disarm scheduler.
fx Cameras: Displays advanced camera functions (not detailed in the data).
Video Cameras: Displays live feeds.
Lock / ... history: Displays the current status and history of the locks.
Opening / ... history: Displays the current status and history of the door/window sensors.
Occupancy / ... history: Displays the current status and history of occupancy sensors.
Motion / ... history: Displays the current status and history of the motion sensors.
Leak: Displays water leak sensors.
Vibration: Displays the vibration sensors.
Noise: Displays sound sensors.

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"Security Settings" Panel

Since the setting is linked to a zone, see also the "zone" section.

This is the heart of the alarm system.

Arm the security: Main switch (same as the badge).
PIN: Field to define a PIN code (not used directly for arming/disarming in this interface, but potentially for future actions).
Events/min: (Read only) Displays the number of security events (movements, openings) detected in the last minute.
Events/min max: Trigger threshold. The alarm is triggered if the total "Weight" of events (defined in the configuration of each zone) exceeds this threshold in one minute.
Alarm On: (Read Only) Indicates whether the alarm is currently sounding.
Duration in mins: Length of time the siren will sound before stopping.
Send SMS...: Enables sending SMS alerts in case of alarm.
Message: The text of the SMS that will be sent (e.g.: "SECURITY ALERT: Intrusion detected at home.").
Numbers...: The list of phone numbers (separated by ";") that will receive the alert.
Test: A button to send a test SMS to the configured numbers.

"Planner" panel

Allows you to automatically arm and disarm the security system according to a schedule. For each day of the week (Monday to Sunday), you can set a "From" time (arming) and a "To" time (disarming).

Sensor Panels (Cameras, Lock, Open, Motion, etc.)

The rest of the "Security" section consists of panels listing all devices of a certain type, giving you an overall overview of the home.

Video Cameras: Displays all video feeds from all areas.
Lock / Open / Presence / Motion / Leak / Noise: Listens to all tiles of the corresponding sensors.
... history: For each sensor type, a "history" panel displays a graph showing sensor activity over the past 24 hours.

"Heating" Section

This dashboard centralizes the thermal management of your home. -> see also the zone settings in the heating section

Main Badges

Settings: Shows/hides the configuration options for this dashboard.
Away: Shortcut to "Away" mode (which activates the eco temperatures set in "Home").

Control Panel (Visible if "Settings" is enabled)

Titles: Show/hide titles.
Scheduler: Displays the heating scheduler settings.
HVAC / ... history: Displays thermostats and their history.
Radiator / ... history: Displays radiators/supplementary heaters and their history.
Shutter / ... history: Displays the shutters (because they impact the thermal) and their history.
Fan / ... history: Displays fans and their history.
Temperature / ... history: Displays all temperature sensors and their history.
Humidity / ... history: Displays all humidity sensors and their history.

"Planner" panel

Allows you to define, for each day of the week (Monday to Sunday), whether the heating automation should ignore the "Away" mode. Example: If you activate "Ignore Away Mode" on Saturday, the heating will remain in comfort mode that day, even if you have activated the global "Away" mode.

Control panels and graphics

The rest of this dashboard groups devices and sensors by type for an overview:

HVAC: Displays the thermostat maps of your heating/air conditioning devices (e.g. "climate.salon").
Radiator: Displays the switches for all your additional heaters (e.g. "Stove heater", "Bath heater").
Shutter: Displays all your shutters (e.g. "Storage shutter").
Temperature: Displays the current temperature of all your sensors.
Humidity: Displays the humidity level from all your sensors.
... history: For each category above, a "history" panel displays the corresponding 24-hour graphs. The "Radiator History" panel includes a graph for the status (on/off) and another for the target temperatures.

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"Air" Section

This dashboard is dedicated to monitoring indoor air quality (IAQ) and climate comfort.

Control Panel (Visible if "Settings" is enabled)

Allows you to show/hide Titles, Subtitles, Comments (text recommendations), Gauges (real-time), Indexes (index graphs) and Sensors (raw sensor graphs).
Allows you to show/hide the panel for each area individually (e.g. "Exterior", "Kitchen"...).

Area Signs (Example: "Office")

Each zone with compatible sensors has a dedicated panel.

Gauges:
- Air Climate Index (ACI): A gauge from 0 to 100 that combines temperature and humidity to indicate a comfort index. (Green = Comfortable, Yellow = Average, Red = Uncomfortable).
- Air Quality Index (AQI): A gauge from 0 to 500 that measures air quality based on pollutants (CO2, PM2.5 particles, VOCs, etc.). (Green = Good, Yellow/Orange = Moderate, Red/Purple = Bad/Dangerous).
Index (Graphics): Displays the 24-hour history of both ACI and AQI indices.
Comments:
- ACI: Displays dynamic text giving you recommendations based on the comfort index (e.g., "Air quality - Moderate. It is advisable to increase ventilation...").
- AQI: Displays dynamic text based on the air quality index (e.g., "Air Quality - Poor for sensitive groups...").
Sensors (Graphics):
- Displays historical graphs (24h) of all raw sensors that contribute to the indices (Temperature, Humidity, CO2, PM1, PM2.5, PM4, PM10, VOC, NOx, etc.).

(Note: Areas without air quality sensors will display a message "No usable sensor in [Zone]")

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"Energy" Section

This dashboard is your command center for managing energy production, consumption and costs.

Main Badges

Settings: Shows/hides the configuration options for this dashboard.
Away: Shortcut to global "Away" mode.

Control Panel (Visible if "Settings" is enabled)

Allows you to choose which panels to display in this section, providing a very granular view:

Titles / Subtitles
Overview: Real-time overview.
Date Selection: The standard period selector.
Distribution: The energy flow diagram.
Source table: Table breaking down the flows (network, solar, battery).
Indicators: Performance gauges (self-sufficiency, etc.).
Devices: Consumption graphs by device.
Details: Overall usage and solar production graphs.
Exchanges / Sources / Proportions / Historical sources / Total consumption / Sources - consumers / Consumers / Daily consumption / Historical consumers / Forecast: Different graphical and analytical views of your energy data.

"Energy Overview" panel

A summary of your home's energy status.

Real-time power flow: 4 tiles showing solar production, battery level, exchange with the grid (positive if you buy, negative if you sell), and total consumption of the house.
Charts and Gauges:
- Energy Sources Today: A donut chart showing the share of your consumption coming from solar, battery, and the grid.
- Self-sufficiency (Today / Now): Two gauges showing your level of independence from the network over the day and at time T.
Daily indicators:
- Today's Cost: The total cost of energy consumed since midnight.
- Today's Usage: The total amount of energy (kWh) consumed since midnight.
- Solar production: The total energy (kWh) produced by your panels today.
- Avg kwh price: The weighted average price of your energy, taking into account the solar/battery/grid mix.
Power Trends - 24h: A graph superimposing consumption, solar production, battery usage and exchange with the grid over the last 24 hours.
Status and alerts: Tiles whose color changes depending on the status:
- Current consumption: Turns red when consumption is high.
- Battery status: Changes color (green, orange, red) depending on the charge level.
- Network Exchange: Changes color and icon if you are importing (orange/red) or exporting (green) energy.

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"Date Selection" panel

Allows you to choose the period (day, week, month, year) for the historical analysis panels.

"Distribution" sign

Displays the energy flow diagram (similar to the one in the "Overview" panel).

"Proportions" panel

Displays three donut charts comparing the "Solar + Battery" vs. "Grid" share for Today, This Month, and This Year.

"Figures" panel

Displays a detailed table (provided by Home Assistant) breaking down energy flows between all sources and destinations.

"Indicators" panel

Four performance gauges for the selected period:

Grid Neutrality: Indicates whether you have injected more energy than you have consumed.
Solar consumed: Portion of your solar production that you have consumed directly.
Fossil source: (Information dependent on an external source) Share of your consumption coming from fossil sources.
Self-efficiency: Overall self-sufficiency rate (solar + battery).

"Devices" panel

Displays the consumption of each individual device in graphs ("Global" and "Detailed").

"Details" panel

Energy use: Graph of total home consumption.
Solar production: Solar production graph.

"Exchanges" sign

Displays tiles and a graph of exchanges with the network (import, export, and export value).

"Sources" panel

Displays tiles for each energy source (PV, Battery status, Battery usage, Grid) with a "graph" button to show/hide the 24h history of this source.

"Sources - consumers" panel

Displays a Sankey diagram (flow) showing the distribution of energy from sources (Photovoltaic, Battery, Grid) to the "Home", then its breakdown to each consuming device (Heating, IT, Chargers, EV, Boiler, and "Unmetered").

"Consumers" sign

This is the most powerful control panel for energy management. It lists each device whose consumption is monitored (e.g.: "voltcraft_power", "heating_power_2", "ev", "boiler"...).

For each device in the list, you have the following controls:

Status Tile: Displays current consumption in real time.
Control grid (4 buttons):
- Switch (On/Off): Allows you to manually force the device to turn on or off.
- Automation (robot icon): Enables or disables automatic management of this device by casasmooth.
- Graph (graph icon): Shows/hides a graph of 48-hour consumption history.
- Settings (gear icon): Shows/hides the advanced settings panel below.

When you activate the Configuration for a device (e.g. the "boiler"), the following panels appear:

History: A graph showing the desired state (requested by the automation) over time.

"Active" panel:
- Sets the conditions for turning on the device.
- Only when at home: The device will only turn on automatically if "Away" mode is not activated.
- Solar above: (Cursor) The device will only turn on if the solar production exceeds this value (in W).
- Battery Exceeds: (Slider) The device will only turn on if the battery level exceeds this percentage.
- Before Solar Peak: (Slider) Allows you to force ignition X minutes before the expected solar peak time (useful for preheating).
- Turn on at this time: Fixed time to force turn on (if set to 00:00, ignored).
- Notify above: Sends you an alert if the device's consumption exceeds this threshold.
- Session Management: (Switch) Indicates whether this device operates by "session" (like a washing machine, which must complete its cycle).
- Energy category: Allows you to classify the device (e.g.: Heating, EV, Household appliances).

"Disabled" panel:
- Sets the conditions for turning off the device.
- Don't interrupt if more than: (Slider) If the device consumes more than this value, the automation will not turn it off, assuming it is in full cycle (useful for "Session Management").
- Solar Below: (Slider) Turns off the device if solar production falls below this value.
- Battery Below: (Slider) Turns off the device if the battery drops below this percentage.
- After Solar Peak: (Slider) Forces shutdown X minutes after the predicted solar peak time.
- Grace Period: (Slider) Duration (in minutes) the device will remain on even if the conditions (solar, battery) are no longer met, to avoid constant shutdowns/restarts.
- Turn off at this time: Fixed time to force shutdown (if set to 00:00, ignored).
- Notify under: Sends you an alert if consumption falls below this threshold (e.g. to signal the end of a cycle).

Concrete example: You can set your boiler to turn on automatically (robot activated) only when you are at home, the sun is producing more than 2000W and the battery is at more than 80%. You can set a grace period of 15 minutes. If a cloud passes and the solar drops to 1500W, the boiler will stay on for another 15 minutes, waiting for the sun to return, before turning off to preserve the battery.

Analysis panels (Consumption, History, Forecast)

Daily Consumption: A stacked bar chart showing, hour by hour, the consumption of each device, helping you identify consumption peaks.
Historical consumption: A line graph superimposing the consumption of all your devices over 48 hours.
Forecast: Displays solar production forecasts (if available): peak power today, production for the next hour, remaining today, total today, and total for tomorrow.

"EV car" section

This section is dedicated to managing your electric vehicle.

badge: "settings".
Control Panel: Allows you to show/hide the "Overview", "Costs", "Detailed Breakdown", "Safety", "Climate", "Controls", "Status", "Other/Info", and "Charging" panels.
"vehicle status" sign (preview)
- Displays real-time status: battery level, range (autonomy), charging power, odometer, remaining charging time, target charge level, and last update.
- Includes a 24-hour charging power graph.
"energy and ve costs" panel
- Displays current rate (price/kwh), daily total, monthly total and annual total charging costs.
“detailed distribution” panel (economic logic)
- This section distinguishes the charging costs.
- external rate / external daily / external monthly: tracks the costs of charging outside the home (public terminals), using an average price defined in the settings.
- Average daily/monthly rate: calculates the actual average cost of your recharges, taking into account the energy mix (solar, battery, network) used at home and external costs.
vehicle control panels
- Displays tiles and graphics to interact with the vehicle (options depend on the model):
  - safety: condition of the doors.
  - climate: air conditioning control, seat heating.
  - controls: management of departure timers.
  - Status: Battery graphs, odometer, range, update time.
  - other/info: days before next inspection.
  - charging: charge switch, target level setting, battery care mode.

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"Health" section

This section groups together health and activity data from your connected devices (watches, phones).

badge: "settings".
Control Panel: Allows you to show/hide the "Activity", "Vital Signs", "Summary" panels and the panels for each device/person.
panel per device
- Activity: Displays graphs and tiles for steps, active calories, distance, and elevation.
- Vital Signs: Displays graphs for heart rate, heart rate variability (HRV), VO2 max, and blood pressure (systolic/diastolic).

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"Household appliances" section

Consolidates control of your smart home appliances.

badge: "settings".
control panel: allows you to show/hide the categories "cooking", "storing", "cleaning".
“cooking” panel: displays controls for:
- stove: switch, temperature.
- oven: switch, door status, end time, progress, temperature.
- microwave: switch, door status, power.
- venthood: switch, speed.
- coffee machine: switch, water level, temperature.
“storing” panel:
- refrigerator: switch, door status, temperature.
- freezer: switch, door status, temperature.
“cleaning” sign:
- dishwasher, washer, dryer: each with switch, door status, end time, progress.

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Weather section

A detailed and historical view of the weather.

badge: "settings".
control panel: allows you to show/hide the "real time", "history", "reduced", "synthetic", "general" panels.
“Real-time” panel: displays the current values of all your weather sensors (temperature, humidity, brightness, wind, gusts, pressure, precipitation).
“history” panel: displays a grid of graphs (over 24 hours) for each of the sensors above.
“synthetic” panel: displays the complete weather map with forecasts.
"General" panel: displays integrated weather maps (windy.com) showing wind, temperature and pressure over Europe.

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"Media" section

Centralize control of all your media players and televisions.

badge: "settings".
Control Panel: Show/hide "All Sonos Players", "Media Players", "Televisions".
"All Sonos Players" panel: (displays a "No Sonos system" message if not applicable).
“media players” panel:
- play on all players: one switch to sync playback across all devices.
- List of all control cards for your speakers (e.g. "salon display", "bose 30", "pc", "manger speaker", etc.).
“televisions” panel: list of control cards for your televisions (e.g. “attic”, “google tv streamer”).

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"Overview" section

This dashboard is designed for quick action, grouping all devices of the same type, across all zones.

Control Panel (Visible if "Settings" is enabled)

Allows you to show/hide Titles, Subtitles, and the categories Lights, Outlets, Consumers (outlets with metering), Store (shutters), and Motion.

"Lights" sign

Shortcuts: "On" and "Off" buttons to control all the lights in your house with just one click.
Lists by Zone: Then displays, zone by zone (Exterior, Kitchen, Living Room, etc.), the list of all lighting tiles for individual control.

"Consumers" sign

Displays a grid of all your metered outlets (e.g. "voltcraft_outlet_1", "ev", "boiler") with a simple on/off switch for each.

"Store" sign

Displays a grid of all your shutters and blinds (e.g. "store_volet").

"Movement" sign

Displays a grid of all your motion sensors, allowing you to quickly see where activity is detected.

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"Monitor" section

This section turns any sensor into a smart monitoring tool with custom alerts.

Monitoring logic: For each sensor (power consumption, door opening, temperature, etc.), you can create a monitoring rule.
Concrete scenarios:
- Washing Machine: Create a monitoring feature for the washing machine's outlet. Set a notification to alert you when its power consumption drops below 5W for more than 2 minutes, signaling the end of the cycle.
- Freezer: Monitor the freezer temperature sensor and receive an alert if the temperature exceeds -15°C for more than 10 minutes.
- Front Door: Be notified if the front door is left open for more than 5 minutes.

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"Systems" section

This dashboard is intended for maintaining and monitoring the health of your casasmooth system and devices.

Control Panel (Visible if "Settings" is enabled)

Allows you to show/hide Titles, Subtitles, System Indicators, Software Update, WOL (Wake-On-Lan) Devices, Batteries, Device Update, and Entities by Units.

"System Indicators" panel

Displays your machine's resources: CPU usage (%), CPU temperature, RAM used (MB and %), Disk space used (GB and %).

"Software" panel

Displays update status for Home Assistant components (OS, Core, Supervisor) and a "Reboot after update" switch to automate post-update reboot.

"Wake-up on LAN" (WOL) panel

Displays buttons to "wake up" (remotely turn on) devices on your network (e.g., a desktop computer) by sending a "magic packet" to their MAC address.

"Battery Status" Panel

Lists all battery-powered devices in your home (over 40 in your setup).

Display: Each device is a tile.
Color: The background color indicates the status (Green/Orange/Red/Gray).
Action: Clicking on a tile opens a pre-populated Google search telling you the exact procedure to replace the batteries in that specific device (e.g., "Battery replacement procedure for a Netatmo Smart Outdoor Module device").

"Update device" panel

Lists all devices (more than 60) for which a firmware update is available or which are managed by the system.

Display: Each device is a tile.
Color: Color indicates status (Blue = Update Available, Green = Up to Date, Orange/Yellow = Unavailable/Unknown, Red = Error).
Action: As with batteries, clicking on a tile opens a Google search for the firmware update procedure for that device.

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"Administration" section

This dashboard is the high-level configuration center for casasmooth.

Control Panel (Visible if "Settings" is enabled)

Allows you to show/hide Titles, Welcome, Status, Notifications, Settings (Global), Energy Costs, and API panels.

"Welcome" sign

Contains the same information as the "Welcome" panel in Home, with fields (Email, Mobile), buttons (Backup, Services, Update), and additional fields:

Base URL...: The web address of your casasmooth instance.
API Token: Your authentication token for external services.

"Status" panel

Displays your system version information, timestamps of the last operations (update, backup, log rotation, reboot), and your unique identifier (GUID).

"Notifications" panel

Allows you to choose the channels through which you wish to receive alerts.

System notifications: Main switch.
App Notifications: Push notifications to your phone.
Persistent notifications: Alerts visible in the casasmooth web interface.
Notifications to my email: Send alerts to your email.
SMS Notifications: Sending SMS messages (mainly for security).
Voice notifications: Announcements on home speakers.
Test: Button to send a test notification on all enabled channels.

"Settings" panel

Defines global monitoring rules.

Battery/Firmware Check: Enables the automatic checks that populate the "System" dashboard.
Freezer/Rain/Wind Checks: Activates specific monitoring (e.g. alert if the freezer is too hot, or if a window is open when it is raining).
Lights off after delay (h): A global security to turn off all lights in the house if they have been on for a set number of hours (e.g. 4 hours), in case an automation has failed.

"Energy Costs" Panel

Allows you to define your basic energy costs (used for all economic calculations).

Home energy cost: Cost of household energy (general).
Charger energy cost: Specific cost for chargers (e.g. public EV chargers).
Battery energy cost: Depreciation cost of your battery per kWh.
Grid energy cost: Price of purchasing energy from the grid.
Network energy price: (Seems redundant with the previous one, may be a resale price).
Reset energy sensors: Button to reset the energy meters.
Last energy reset: (Read only) Displays the date of the last reset.

"API" panel

Provides a link to download the casasmooth API technical documentation and displays the date this documentation was last updated.

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Technique and comments

casasmooth is a robust platform, designed in Switzerland, which combines performance and respect for privacy.

Technologies: The system relies on standard and open technologies , allowing it to interface with a wide range of devices (Zigbee, Z-Wave, Matter, Wifi, Bluetooth) from different manufacturers.
Openness: While casasmooth offers a "ready-to-use" experience, its platform remains open, allowing you to add your own devices or customize the logic if you wish.
Security and Privacy: At the heart of casasmooth's philosophy is that your data belongs to you. By operating locally ("local-first"), your system doesn't expose your lifestyle habits to third-party servers. External access is end-to-end encrypted, and optional services like backup are subject to strict Swiss security standards.

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