HAFELE Connect App User Guide

: June 8, 2024
: HAFELE

Table of Contents

First time use
Basic gestures
Gallery
Scenes and animations
Timer
Networks and sharing
Unpairing
Change profile
Documents / Resources

Häfele Connect App – Short user guide

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First time use

Häfele Connect App is easy to use.
Follow these simple steps:

Download the app from Apple App Store or Google Play Store.
Power on your Häfele Connect BLE-Boxes.
Open the app.
The app will automatically find all BLE-Boxes that are switched on.
Tap on the “Take all devices into use“.
Häfele Connect App will automatically add all BLE-Boxes to a new network and opens the tap “Devices“.

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If you want to allow other users to control your network, please see the section “Networks and sharing“ later in this document.

Basic gestures

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Here are the basic gestures how to control your devices.

To turn on / off your luminaire or to control electric fitting just tap on the “Device icon“.
Pan “Device icon“ left or right to adjust light intensity of the luminaire.
Pan “Device icon“ up or down to adjust the colour temperature of the luminaire.
Hold on top of the “Device icon“ to change light colour or other general settings.

Gallery

The Gallery of the Häfele Connect App is the most natural way of controlling your BLE-Boxes. Take a picture of the room where your luminaires or electric fittings are installed and place a “Device icon” over them in the picture.

Add a photo of your room to Häfele Connect App Gallery by tapping “Edit“ and after that the “+“ sign.
Once you have added a photo you can add “Device icon“ to the picture. Tap on the “+“ sign, select a device icon that you want to add to the picture and tap “Done“.
After you have added and positioned all “Device icons“ over all the luminaires in the picture tap “Close“.
Now you can control your luminaires or electrical fittings visually from the picture. No need to guess which device is which.

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Scenes and animations

In the “Scenes“ tab you can create different settings for different occasions. It is possible to simultaneously control multiple luminaires and electric fittings with one tap to create perfect ambience. Every device can be used in several scenes.

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Tap on “+“ and enter a name for the scene. Select the “Add a scene“ option.
Select one or multiple “Device icons“ and adjust the devices for the scene. You can adjust the devices separately or if you want to have same dim level, colour temperature or light coulour for all you can use the “Devices in scene“ control to adjust all devices in the scene.
When you are completed editing the scene tap on “Done“ twice.
If you would like to add more scenes tap on the “Edit“ on top right corner and then tap on the “+“ sign.

In the “Scenes” tab it is also possible to create animations. Animations or dynamic scenes are special scene types that fade automatically from one scene to another. They can be used like ordinary scenes. Animations can also be configured as a loop.

Tap on the “Edit“ on top right corner and then tap on the “+“ sign.
Enter a name for the animation and tap on the “Add an animation“ option.
You can add scenes and wait times to the animation.
Example:
• Add Scene RED, fade time 10 sec
• Add wait 1 min
• Add Scene BLUE, fade time 10 sec
This animation setting will fade into scene RED within 10 seconds. Red will be active for 1 minute. Then the scene RED will fade into scene BLUE within 10 seconds.
In “Animation behaviour” you can set the animation as a loop.
When you are completed editing the animation tap on “Done“ twice.

Timer

With the timer function you can create a list of timers that will turn scenes and animations on and off based on time.

Go to “More“ tab and select “Timer“. Create a new timer by tapping the “Add a timer“.
Tap on the “Controlled scenes“ and select a scene or animation that this timer will control.
Tap on the “Switches ON“ button to set the time when the scene / animation should turn on and tap on the “Switches OFF“ button to set the time when the scene / animation should turn off.
It is also possible to set a fade time for the timer so that the scene / animation will start smoothly.
When you are completed editing the timer tap on “Done“ twice.

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If you want to control your BLE-Boxes from more than one mobile device you need to change the “Network sharing settings“. As a default the created network is set as “Not shared“ and only is stored in the device that created it.

Go to “More“ tab and select “Network setup“ and “Sharing settings“.
Tap on the “Sharing“ and the “Sharing mode“ screen will open.
There are four different sharing modes: “Not Shared“, “Administrator only“, “Password protected“ and “Open“.
When you select “Administrator only“, “Password protected“ or “Open“ mode the network will be uploaded to cloud server to offer network access for other mobile devices.
Add also an email address and a password for the network.
Confirm your settings with “Save“.

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Unpairing

You may need to remove a BLE-Box from a network if you want to add it to another network. Häfele Connect BLE-Boxes can only be added to one network at a time.
To unpair a device go to the “Nearby devices“ screen found under “More“ tab. Tap on the BLE-Box you want to unpair and select “Unpair device“. This will unpair the BLE-Box if you have modification rights to the network.
If you don’t have the modification rights to the network that the BLE-Box is paired to, you need to have access to the BLE-Box‘s power switch to unpair the device. Tap on the “Unpair device“ and the app will open an “Unpair“ screen. Tap on the “Start“ button and the time bar appears. Now quickly flick the power switch off and back on to unpair the BLE-Box. If unpairing succeeded there is a message that device has been unpaired.

Change profile

Open the Häfele Connect app
Go to Nearby devices screen. Notice that the unit must be in unpaired state to be ableto change the profile.
Tap on the unit and select “Change profile“.
Then select the new profile from the list.
Tap “Start update“ in the next screen.
After the profile is changed there is “Update succeeded“ message.