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Creating a template and scene for smart home devices

Switching templates with the FRITZ!Box user interface

You can save the individual settings of your smart plugs and radiator controls, for example FRITZ!DECT 200 or FRITZ!DECT 301, and LED lights FRITZ!DECT 500 in different templates. In addition, you can save convenience features, for example switching Wi-Fi on/off, starting phone calls, as a template.

Simply select the appropriate template as required and click to enable the desired settings. You can use templates to switch either individual smart home devices or groups. You can enable the template with the user interface of your FRITZ!Box, a FRITZ!DECT smart switch, with FRITZ!Fon, and with FRITZ!App Smart Home. In a scene you can combine several templates and use a routine to switch them automatically.

For example, if you work shifts, you can save different heating and switching profiles in corresponding templates for the early and the late shift and then quickly switch between these templates at any time.

Note:All instructions on configuration and settings given in this guide refer to the latest FRITZ!OS for the FRITZ!Box.

1 Creating and using a template

Creating a template  

  1. Click 'Smart Home' in the FRITZ!Box user interface.
  2. Click 'Automation' in the 'Smart Home' menu.
  3. Click 'Create Scene or Template'.
  4. Click 'Template' and then 'Next'.
  5. Select the group of devices that you want to switch or select 'Use convenience features'. As a convenience feature you can switch the Wi-Fi guest access or start a phone call, for example.

    Note:Only devices of the same kind, i.e. smart plug/LED light or radiator control, can be switched together in a template.
    If a device is already assigned to a group, you cannot assign just the device to a template; you must assign the entire group to a template.

  6. Select the desired settings or configure the desired switching.
  7. Enter a name for the template and then save the template.

Applying a template  

Important:When a template is applied, the current settings of the smart home devices and groups included in the template are overwritten.

  1. Click 'Smart Home' in the FRITZ!Box user interface.
  2. Click 'Operation' in the 'Smart Home' menu.
  3. Click 'Apply' for the desired template.

Note:You can also enable the template with a FRITZ!DECT smart switch, a FRITZ!Fon (menu 'Home Network > Smart Home'), or in the home network and over the internet with FRITZ!App Smart Home.
You can combine several templates into a scene and/or use a routine to switch them automatically.

2 Creating and using a scene

There are different types of scenes that you can use. With custom scenes, you use templates you created yourself; with predefined scenes, you use automatically generated templates:

Creating a custom scene

  1. Click "Smart Home" in the FRITZ!Box user interface.
  2. Click "Automation" in the "Smart Home" menu.
  3. Click "Create Scene or Template".
  4. Enable "Predefined or custom scene" and click "Next".
  5. Enable "Own Scene" and click "Next".
  6. Enter a name for the scene and click "Next".
  7. Select the templates you want to combine in the scene and click "Finished". Now the scene is created.

Adjusting a predefined scene

There are two preset scenes, "Coming Home" and "Leaving the House", from automatically generated templates that you can use directly. These preset scenes switch all of the LED lights and smart plugs registered with the FRITZ!Box, Wi-Fi and the Wi-Fi guest network, and the FRITZ!Box answering machine on or off, and set the radiator controls to the comfort or cool-down temperature.

If you would like to adjust a predefined scene, proceed as follows:

  1. Click "Smart Home" in the FRITZ!Box user interface.
  2. Click "Automation" in the "Smart Home" menu.
  3. Click (edit) next to the "Leaving the House" or "Coming Home" scene.
  4. Enable all of the actions to be included in the scene. Disable the actions which should not be included in the scene.
  5. Click "Apply" to save the settings.

Applying a scene

  1. Click "Smart Home" in the FRITZ!Box user interface.
  2. Click "Operation" in the "Smart Home" menu.
  3. Click "Applying" for the desired scene.

Note:There are several ways to apply the scene in the home network and from anywhere over the internet.



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