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Setting up group switching for smart home devices

You can combine several smart home devices into a group and then easily switch and control them together. Then you can switch a group of several smart plugs, for example FRITZ!DECT 200, automatically according to a schedule or depending on temperature. If necessary, you can also manually switch a group on and off for which a schedule is set up.
In addition, you can also define a so-called "master" as the switching actuator that switches the whole group when it is switched.

You can also organize radiator controls, for example FRITZ!DECT 301, into groups and then easily control several radiators in the same room together, for example.

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

Requirements / Restrictions

  • If you have a group with smart plugs for which you set up temperature-based switching, it is not possible to manually switch the group or an individual device in the group.

1 Creating a group

  1. Click "Home Network" in the FRITZ!Box user interface.
  2. Click "Smart Home" in the "Home Network" menu.
  3. Click the "New Group" button.
  4. Select the kind of device ("Switching Actuators" or "Radiator control") you want to combine in the group and click "OK".
  5. Enter a name for the group and select the smart home devices you want to switch together in the group.
  6. Click the "OK" button. The group is then created.
  7. In the next window, click "OK" to save the settings.

2 Switching a group with smart plugs

Smart plugs that you have grouped together can either be switched automatically, via a "Master", or manually, if necessary:

Switching a group automatically

  1. Click "Home Network" in the FRITZ!Box user interface.
  2. Click "Smart Home" in the "Home Network" menu.
  3. Select the option "All groups" from the drop-down list "viewing".
  4. Click the (Edit) button for the "Group switch" of the group you want to configure automatic switching for.
  5. In the section "Automatic switching", select "Switch group automatically" and set up the desired schedule.
  6. Click "OK" to save the settings.

Switching a group via a "Master"

You can define a smart home device as the so-called "master". When it is switched automatically or manually, all devices in the "master's" group are switched as well. The "master" does not have to belong to the group you want to switch:

  1. Click "Home Network" in the FRITZ!Box user interface.
  2. Click "Smart Home" in the "Home Network" menu.
  3. Select the option "All groups" from the drop-down list "viewing".
  4. Click the (Edit) button that corresponds to the group for which you want to configure switching via a "Master".
  5. In the section "Automatic switching", enable the option "Switch group via a FRITZ! actuator ('master')" and select the device you want to use as the "Master" from the drop-down list "Actuator".
  6. Click "OK" to save the settings.

Switching a group manually

If you manually switch a group that you also set up an automatic switching schedule for, the manual switching applies until the next automatic switching time occurs:

  1. Click "Home Network" in the FRITZ!Box user interface.
  2. Click "Smart Home" in the "Home Network" menu.
  3. Click the on/off slider for "Group switch" in the section "Group [name of the group]".

    Note:You can also manually switch the smart home group with a FRITZ!Fon (Menu "Home Network > Smart Home") and a FRITZ!DECT smart switch, or use FRITZ!App Smart Home to switch it in the home network or over the internet.

3 Controlling a group with radiator controls

Radiator controls that you have grouped together can either be controlled automatically or manually:

Automatically controlling a group with a radiator control

  1. Click "Home Network" in the FRITZ!Box user interface.
  2. Click "Smart Home" in the "Home Network" menu.
  3. Select the option "All groups" from the drop-down list "viewing".
  4. Click the (Edit) button for the "Group switch" of the group you want to configure automatic switching for.
  5. Set up the desired time and vacation switching.
  6. Under "Heat off", define when the radiator should not heat.
  7. Click "OK" to save the settings.

Manually controlling a group with a radiator control

  1. Click "Home Network" in the FRITZ!Box user interface.
  2. Click "Smart Home" in the "Home Network" menu.
  3. In the section "Group [name of the group]", click the plus or minus for "Group switch" under "Temperature target" to change the temperature of the group.

    Note:You can also manually switch the radiator group with a FRITZ!Fon (Menu "Home Network > Smart Home") or use FRITZ!App Smart Home to switch it in the home network or over the internet.
    You can save customized heating profiles as templates that you can activate as needed, for example with FRITZ!DECT 440.



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