What is Tilez
Tilez is a dashboard for your home. It shows what your devices know, such as temperatures, energy use, lights and cameras, as tiles on a screen, and lets you control them with a tap. A wall tablet in the hall, your phone and your computer can all show it.
Dashboards and tiles
Section titled “Dashboards and tiles”A dashboard is a set of screens, each with tiles on a grid. A dashboard for a tablet fills the screen; one for a phone scrolls.
The tiles:
| Tile | Shows |
|---|---|
| Value | A number with its unit, such as a temperature or a power reading, optionally on a gauge or with a graph |
| Graph | Readings over time, as lines or bars |
| Light, Switch | A light or a plug, which a tap switches on or off; lights can be dimmed and coloured |
| Thermostat | The temperature and the set point, which you can change |
| Status or mode | A state as a text or an icon, which a tap can change, such as a charger’s mode |
| Text | A text of its own, or a value in words |
| Action | A button that sends one command, such as a scene |
| Weather forecast | The weather to come, with warnings |
| Table | Columns and rows of values and texts |
| Air quality | CO₂, fine dust and VOC, coloured by how good they are |
| Solar | Power flowing between solar panels, the grid, a battery and the house |
| Camera, Image | A live camera, or a still picture |
| Group | A box with a title, behind tiles that belong together |
You change a dashboard on the device itself: edit mode lets you add, move and set up tiles, and pick a style for each. Everything a dashboard can hold is in the dashboard reference.
Connections to your devices
Section titled “Connections to your devices”Tilez reaches your devices through drivers, one for each kind of device or service. Built in:
- Home Assistant, Philips Hue, Homey, Hubitat Elevation
- Plugwise Anna, Vaillant and Bulex (myVAILLANT), eBUS heating (ebusd)
- HomeWizard P1 meter (energy), AirGradient (air quality), Renson Healthbox (ventilation), evcc (car charging)
- InfluxDB (stored readings), OpenWeatherMap (weather)
- Tilez weather and Tilez energy prices, from Tilez Cloud
- Cars from Fiat, Jeep, Alfa Romeo and others (Uconnect)
- A demo home, to try Tilez without devices
More drivers can be installed from a file or a web address. A driver asks for what it may reach, and you agree before it runs.
- Where Tilez runs: the apps, and the browser.
- Tilez Hub and Tilez Cloud: keep your dashboards in one place.