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title: "Configuration"
description: "TapHome configuration guides: Smart Rules and equations, dashboards, zones and categories, users and permissions, meters, conversions and device log."
url: "https://taphome.com/en/docs/configuration/"
language: en
lastmod: 2026-11-08
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  topics: ["system-configuration","smart-rules","automation","device-settings","dashboards"]
  questions: ["Where do I find TapHome configuration settings?","What can I configure in the TapHome system?","How do I create automation rules in TapHome?","How to organize devices into dashboards, zones, and categories?","Where can I manage user permissions?","How do I export data from TapHome?"]
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# Configuration

Last updated: 2026-11-08

This section explains how to configure a TapHome system after the devices are added: organizing the control interface, managing users and permissions, setting up meters and Smart Rules, and connecting several Core control units. It is for anyone who sets up and administers a TapHome installation. Find your task below and open the matching guide.

## Configuration tasks

### Project structure

- [Dashboards and Zones](https://taphome.com/en/docs/configuration/dashboards-zones-categories/) — Organize favorite items into dashboards, zones and categories
- [Bulk Edit](https://taphome.com/en/docs/configuration/editing-multiple-devices/) — Edit several devices at once
- [Custom Icons](https://taphome.com/en/docs/configuration/custom-icons/) — Change the icon, color and background of a device
- [Users](https://taphome.com/en/docs/configuration/users-permissions/) — Manage users, roles and permissions
- [Export descriptions](https://taphome.com/en/docs/configuration/export-description/) — Export module input and output names and descriptions to CSV

### Rules and calculations

- [Actions](https://taphome.com/en/docs/configuration/smart-rules-actions/) — Choose what a smart rule does to its output device
- [Statistic Values](https://taphome.com/en/docs/configuration/statistic-values-smart-rules/) — Use calculated statistic values in **Equation** and **Formula** smart rules
- [Conversions](https://taphome.com/en/docs/configuration/conversion-functions/) — Assign a unit to variables and analog inputs, or convert pulse meter values
- [Date Periods](https://taphome.com/en/docs/configuration/date-periods/) — Define holidays or other sets of days for weekly access plans
- [Hysteresis Equation](https://taphome.com/en/docs/configuration/hysteresis-equation/) — Fill a retention tank by water level with a hysteresis function

### Devices and power

- [Device log](https://taphome.com/en/docs/configuration/device-log/) — Track the history of device changes
- [Button Speed](https://taphome.com/en/docs/configuration/push-button-speed/) — Set the response speed of push buttons
- [Power limiting](https://taphome.com/en/docs/configuration/power-limiting-pwm-groups/) — Keep the total power of electric heating outputs within a limit
- [Impulse meter](https://taphome.com/en/docs/configuration/impulse-electric-meter/) — Connect an impulse electric meter to a digital input
- [iPad Power](https://taphome.com/en/docs/configuration/ipad-battery/) — Extend the battery life of a wall-mounted tablet

### System and network

- [Multiple Cores](https://taphome.com/en/docs/configuration/multiple-cores/) — Connect multiple Core control units
- [Network architecture](https://taphome.com/en/docs/configuration/network-architecture/) — Understand how the app and the control unit communicate
- [Make.com](https://taphome.com/en/docs/configuration/make-com-integration/) — Send device data to Google Sheets with Make.com