Tutorial 110:54

Custom names & the widget

New in AmazHA 1.0.0: give any device on the watch the name you want, and keep up to four devices on the watch face, without opening the app.

Tutorial 11: Custom names & the widget. The AmazHA mascot next to the title of the tutorial.

Step by step

  1. Tap a device’s name

    In the AmazHA settings, open Devices and a room. Every device the watch shows has a pencil after its name: tap the name.

  2. Type its name for the watch

    Type the new name in Name on the watch, up to 32 characters. Back in the room, the device shows its new name, with the Home Assistant name under it.

  3. The new name, on the watch

    The watch uses it on every screen, and on the widget too. Home Assistant keeps its own name.

  4. Pick the widget’s devices

    In Devices, open Widget on watch and tap up to four devices. The widget shows them in the order you pick them: left to right, top to bottom.

  5. Add the widget to the watch

    On the watch, swipe right from the watch face to the shortcut cards, tap Edit and add AmazHA.

  6. Open AmazHA once

    Until then the widget says Open AmazHA. Tap it: when you come back, your devices are there. Changes you make on the phone reach the widget the next time you open AmazHA.

  7. One tap away

    Tap a light, a switch or a fan to turn it on or off: the widget shows the new state. A scene, a script, a button or an automation runs.

  8. Anything else opens its own screen

    A lock, a cover, a sensor or a camera opens its own screen in AmazHA, where a lock still asks you to confirm.

  9. Its age, in the header

    The header always says how old the widget’s states are, such as AmazHA · 1 min ago. Open AmazHA to bring them up to date.

Good to know

  • Back to the Home Assistant name: open the device’s name again and tap Restore original name, or leave the field empty.
  • Your names stay when you reset the cache or change the server.
  • Reorder or remove: in Widget on watch, ↑ and ↓ move a device, ✕ removes it. A fifth device is refused until you remove one.
  • Grey widget: the watch is offline, or the states are 12 hours old or more. Tap it to open AmazHA.

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