The app for smart home and home automation installers

The app for smart home and home automation installers

A smart home install isn’t one device — it’s many, spread across an entire property. Thermostats, sensors, smart locks, lights, blinds, cameras, the control panel. Each with its own model, location, and configuration.

When all of that lives in your head and a handful of phone photos, the problem hits later: a callout six months down the line, an extension, or a client switching property manager and nobody knows what’s installed or where. And if you manage several properties — short-term rentals, for example — multiply the mess by the number of units.

This page is about how to document home automation installs so you always know what’s in each property, with no paperwork, from your phone.

Why smart home work needs good documentation

More than other trades, home automation accumulates points and stays in service over time:

• Many elements, little space. A single home can have dozens of devices. Without a map of what’s where, any callout starts blind.
• Maintenance and extensions. Smart home systems live for years. When the client wants to add something or something fails, you need to know how it’s set up — instantly.
• Non-technical clients. The owner doesn’t understand protocols. What they value is that if something happens, you can solve it quickly — and that depends on your documentation.
• Multiple properties at once. If you manage short-term rentals or a portfolio, keeping it all in your head doesn’t scale.

How PinMy solves it

Each device is a pin dropped at its exact point on the floor plan — or on a photo of the room, if you don’t have a plan — with everything you need to remember.

• Each device, located. The living-room sensor, the front-door lock, the hallway thermostat: each pinned where it actually is, not in a loose photo.
• With its spec sheet. A photo and a voice note with the model, how it was configured, which network it’s on. The voice is transcribed into searchable text.
• Distinguishable at a glance. Category icons let you tell sensors, cameras, access control, and panels apart without opening every pin.

Multiple properties, without getting lost

If you manage several flats or a residential complex, PinMy’s maps help: place each property on the map and jump into its documentation from there. Instead of digging through photo folders trying to remember “which flat was this?”, every install is exactly where it is, geolocated.

Each property has its plan or its photo; each device has its pin. All in one place — not scattered between your phone, your email, and your memory.

The value for your client

This is what sets you apart from competitors who just send WhatsApp photos.

When you finish the job, you give the owner access to view their install documented: what’s installed, where, with photos. And because the client isn’t technical and isn’t going to install an app, guest mode lets them view it in the browser — no account, no friction.

An owner who receives a properly documented smart home install perceives professionalism — and is far more likely to call you back for maintenance, an extension, or the next property, instead of looking for someone else.

What you can do today

Only features that are live on the phone right now:

• Voice, photo, video, and text pins on PDF plans, photos, and maps.
• Category icons to distinguish device types.
• Maps with geolocation to manage multiple properties.
• Voice notes transcribed in 20+ languages.
• Dispute-proof pins with timestamp and author.
• Guest mode so the client sees their install without an account.
• Kanban flow for coordinating the team on larger jobs.
• iOS, Android, web, and Chrome extension. Hosted in the EU, GDPR-compliant.

To be honest: PinMy doesn’t integrate with or control the devices — it isn’t a home automation control platform. It’s where you document what you installed, where, and how, for yourself and for your client.

Start with one property

On your next smart home install, mark each device in PinMy as you mount it. By the time you’re done you’ll have the complete property map, ready for maintenance and ready to hand over to the client.

It’s free to start, no card. See also as-built documentation for installations and the page for CCTV, access control, and smart home installers.

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