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Light Control
Control brightness, color temperature, and RGB colors for all your smart lights. Support for dimming, scenes, and room-wide control.
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Window Covering Management
Open, close, and position your smart window coverings (blinds, shades) with precision. Control speed and direction for smooth operation.
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Sensor Monitoring
Monitor motion, temperature, humidity, light levels, and battery in real time. Open Sensor Report for Simple, By Type, By Sensor, and Low Battery views, with presentation-only copy/export.
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Low Battery Report
When any sensor reports battery below 20%, a main-header control appears after devices load. Tap it (or use Sensor Report → Low Battery) for a clean name / room / reading list you can share.
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Scenes & Automation
Create ControlZ scenes, schedules, sensor and switch automations, geofence actions, and one-shot runs. Hue, HomeKit, Conbee/deCONZ, Zigbee2MQTT, and Home Assistant scene catalogs are presented together where supported.
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Room Organization
Organize devices by room, import or exclude source rooms per bridge, hide empty rooms, pin a startup room or custom view, and choose vertical or horizontal room strips on larger displays.
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Time Schedules
Run scenes on days and times, at solar events, or once at an absolute time or relative offset. A selected Mac or iPad can act as the automation authority to prevent duplicate runs across devices.
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Switch Control
Configure supported Zigbee/MQTT and HomeKit buttons and remotes to trigger scenes and actions, including presses, double-taps, and long-press mappings where the device exposes them.
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User Custom Views
Create custom grid layouts mixing lights, window coverings, sensors, and rooms. Lock for read-only mode or unlock to edit, reorder, and assign devices. Set as startup view for instant access.
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User Preferences
Customize device settings including default brightness, favorites, hidden devices, and room assignments. Configure window covering speed, direction, and delays for personalized control.
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Local HTTP API & WebSocket
When the embedded server is enabled, expose REST endpoints for bridges, rooms, scenes, devices, automation, security, weather, and more. Subscribe to WS /ws for live device and log updates (JSON or MessagePack). Authenticate with X-API-Key or query parameters; localhost can bypass keys per server settings. Display URL links (Localhost / Network IP / Both) control which address(es) appear in settings and the green banner.
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Security & zones
Organize locks, doors, motion, presence, smoke, and mixed-device zones; reorder tiles or drag devices across zones; choose which devices affect summaries; and use full-window header/footer status strips (edge-to-edge under the room sidebar on iPad/Mac) plus /api/security/* reports. ControlZ provides limited status reporting only—it is not a certified alarm system.
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Integrations
Home Assistant OAuth or long-lived tokens, HomeKit discovery, WeatherKit current/hourly/forecast data, DoorBird stations, HS4 webhooks, multi-device client sync, and bridge-specific scene and automation catalogs.
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Apple Shortcuts & Siri
App Intents and Siri phrases for scenes and device control from Shortcuts. Setup, built-in phrase templates, and limits are available in the in-app documentation when you use ControlZ from the App Store or TestFlight build.
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Apple Watch
Optional watchOS companion: scenes and controls chosen on iPhone sync to Apple Watch when the phone app is available. Pair Watch with daily use on iPhone for wrist-level triggers.
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Sonos LAN & Cloud
Discover and register players, browse content, manage playback and groups, save playlists, inspect the coordinator queue, and deliver text-to-speech announcements. Optional Sonos Cloud OAuth adds Control API playback and grouping.
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Backup, Restore & iCloud
Create and share .controlzbackup files, restore configuration, schedule local-folder or iCloud snapshots, set count/age retention, and optionally password-protect local backup files.
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Performance Advisor
Startup Health, per-bridge load profiles, suggested bridge order, P50 history, warm-return tracking, and regression flags help tune large installations. Bridge load tiers avoid full inventory work when a state refresh is enough.
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Diagnostics & Recovery
Bridge Console connection tools, state refresh, device reload, Local Network guidance, HomeKit identity repair and Home Cleanup, Security orphan repair, and data-health reports provide recovery without rebuilding the whole setup.
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User Access Control
Optional native-app and web/API sign-in, role-based permissions, API keys, bootstrap recovery using device authentication, and separate policy controls for local users and integrations.
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Groups & Dashboards
Manage illumination/outlet groups, window-covering groups and libraries, cross-bridge Window Coverings dashboards, custom grids, All Rooms views, and bridge-aware device type mapping.
