Multiple Home Assistants

Wrist Assistant works with a single Home Assistant out of the box. But if you look after more than one — a house and a cabin, your place and a parent’s, a primary server and a guest setup — you can add each as its own instance and switch between them right on the watch.

Note

Multiple Home Assistants is off by default. Turn it on under Settings → Account & Connection → Home Assistant → Multiple Home Assistants.

How It Works

Each Home Assistant you add is an instance — its own server URL, sign-in, and its own complete set of pages, tiles, Quick Menus, and status pages. One instance is the primary (it’s the one you already had), and on the watch exactly one instance is active at a time.

Adding a second home doesn’t merge anything — each home keeps its own layout. Think of it as carrying several complete dashboards on your wrist and flipping between them; switching swaps the whole dashboard over to that home.

Note

Multiple Home Assistants is free — but each home still follows your plan’s limits. Adding a second home doesn’t unlock Pro features for it: extra pages, multiple complications, camera streaming, radial menus, and tile customization stay gated per your plan on every home. Upgrade to Pro and those limits lift across all your homes at once.

Turning It On

1. On iPhone, go to Settings → Account & Connection → Home Assistant → Multiple Home Assistants.
2. Flip Enable Multiple Instances on.

Your existing connection becomes the primary instance — tagged PRIMARY. Until you give it a name, it’s labeled with your server’s address. With the feature on, a Multiple Home Assistants shortcut also appears in your Settings → Account & Connection list, showing how many homes you have.

Turn the toggle off any time and the app goes straight back to single-home behavior. Your extra homes stay saved on the phone — just hidden — ready for when you switch it back on.

Adding a Home

1. On the Multiple Home Assistants screen, tap Add Home Assistant.
2. Give it a name (for example “Cabin” or “Guest Home”).
3. Open the new home and tap Set Up Connection, then run the same sign-in you did the first time — auto-discover your server or enter its Home Address and Away Address, then sign in.

When it connects, the home shows Connected with its address. The full connection flow — including self-signed certificates and mTLS — is in the Setup Guide.

Note

Every home signs in separately and keeps its own access token and credentials. A home you haven’t finished connecting shows Not set up yet until you complete sign-in.

Managing a Home

Tap any instance in the list to open its detail screen, where you can:

• Rename it.
• See its connection — Connected (with the address) or Not set up yet.
• Update the connection — re-run sign-in or change the URLs.
• Edit it on iPhone — point the phone at this home so its pages and settings fill the app (see Editing on iPhone).
• Remove it — deletes that home and everything scoped to it. The primary home can’t be removed.

Switching on Your Watch

Switching the active home is a watch gesture. On the Multiple Home Assistants screen, the Switching on Your Watch section shows whether a switch gesture is set up and lets you assign one in a tap. You have three options:

• Double-Tap the Top (recommended) — double-tap the top of the watch screen. Works on every Apple Watch. The screen offers a one-tap Use Double-Tap the Top button to wire this up.
• Double Pinch — pinch your thumb and finger twice. Requires Apple Watch Series 9, Ultra 2, or newer, with Apple’s Double Tap gesture turned on.
• Switch Instance Quick Menu button — add a Switch Instance button to a Quick Menu or an entity radial. It can either cycle to the next home or open a picker showing all your homes to tap.

Double-Tap the Top and Double Pinch both cycle to the next home in order. That order follows how your homes are listed on the Multiple Home Assistants screen — reorder them there to change which home comes next. Each switch confirms with a haptic and a brief “Now: ” banner.

Note

These gestures only switch homes once the feature is on and you have two or more connected. Until then they keep whatever else you’ve assigned them to — see Gestures & Motion.

Caution

Set up a switch method, or you can’t reach a second home from the watch. A gesture or Quick Menu button is the only way to move between homes on the watch, so until you assign one the Switching on Your Watch section flags it with a “No way to switch yet” warning. It’s the first thing to do after adding a home.

What Follows the Active Home

When you switch homes on the watch, everything tied to that home swaps over:

• Pages and tiles — the active home’s full layout, starting back at its first page.
• Live state — the watch reconnects to that home’s server, so every tile reflects the home you’re now in. Expect a second or two for live state to stream in after a switch.
• Quick Menus, entity radials, status pages, rooms, and voice defaults — all per-home.

Editing on iPhone

The iPhone tracks its own viewing home, separate from the watch’s active home. From a home’s detail screen, point the phone at a home and the whole app — the Pages tab, the editor, and settings — fills with that home’s setup. This is how you build out a second home’s dashboard.

The home switcher bar

Once you have two or more connected homes, a segmented switcher bar appears at the top of the Pages tab and every home-specific settings screen (connection, Quick Menus, Status Pages, Voice Defaults, Complications, HTTP Actions). Tap a home to point the phone at it — quicker than going through each home’s detail screen.

• A home you haven’t finished connecting shows as Not set up yet and isn’t offered as a switch target.
• The bar hides itself when fewer than two homes are connected — there’s nothing to switch between.
• If you switch while you have unsaved page edits, the app asks first — Save & Switch, Discard & Switch, or Cancel — so a stray tap never loses your work.

Because the two are independent, you can edit “Cabin” on your phone while your watch is still showing “Home.” Switching homes on the watch doesn’t move the phone, and switching the phone’s view doesn’t move the watch.

Complications & Notifications

Complications and notifications both work per home, and both can live on the same watch independently of which home is currently active.

Complications. Each home has its own complications. Your watch face draws from a single shared pool of up to 8 Wrist Assistant complication slots, so you can fill those slots with complications from different homes — a “Home” temperature next to a “Cabin” door sensor on the same face. Each complication always shows its own home’s data, no matter which home is active on the watch. To set one up, switch the iPhone to view that home (the switcher at the top of the complications screen), then configure complications as usual — see Complications & Widgets.

Notifications. Each home delivers its own notifications, and acting on one never changes which home your watch is showing. A notification’s inline action buttons fire against the home the alert came from — even when that isn’t the home currently active on your watch — so a “front door unlocked” alert from the cabin acts on the cabin. Tapping a camera-snapshot notification opens that home’s live camera over your current page. Either way, your active home stays put.

Good to Know

A few things worth keeping in mind:

• HTTP Actions are shared, not per-home. Your HTTP Action library is one set available from every home, no matter which is active — handy since these usually call webhooks or other services rather than Home Assistant itself.
• Two or three homes is the sweet spot. There’s no hard cap, but each home adds to what the watch has to sync, so a small handful is the practical limit.
• A new home reaches the watch on the next sync — usually within seconds.