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Qbus Building Control - Manage access

Qbus Control allows you to share your account (with limitations) with other Qbus Control users.
Here are some practical examples:

  • Your children are, for example, only allowed to control the devices in their room. You can create an account per child and invite them via your main account to control only their part of the home.
  • You have a holiday home that you share with other individuals. You would like to allow them to control the devices in your holiday home without giving them access to your private residence.

First, invite the individuals to create an account on https://qbuscontrol.com.
You can then invite them using their email address.

Under Manage Access, you can share Groups with other Qbus Control users. Before proceeding, you must first create groups that contain the devices you want to share.
See Qbus Control - Manage Dashboard

Open the Settings page on your account.

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Under Manage Access (1), you can add Permanent Accounts (2) and Guest Accounts (3).

Below, you can see which shared groups you have access to (4)

Click on + (5) to share a group 

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Choose which type of Shared Account you want to create.

  1. A Permanent Account is used when you want to share one or more groups with several people for an indefinite period (meaning until you manually revoke access for these people)
  2. A Temporary Guest Account is used when you want to grant someone temporary access to one or more groups (you can set a start and end date, before and after this period the user cannot access the groups)

 

1. Permanent Account

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  1. Enter an email address of the user you want to grant access to specific groups.
  2. Click + to add the user. You can add multiple users in this way.
  3. Click the arrow to proceed to the next step.
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  1. Indicate here which groups the user is allowed to Read or Operate
  2. Click the arrow to proceed to the next step
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  1. Here, you can configure whether the user can adjust the timing settings of your installation.
  2. Here, you can configure whether the user should receive alerts from your doorbell.
  3. Click the arrow to proceed to the next step.
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Ready. Your selected groups are now available in the other user's account.

The other user will now have received an invitation via email. When they log in with their account, they will first need to accept your invitation:

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Under Manage Access (1), the user can now accept your invitation by clicking Yes (2)

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Afterward, the user will see under Settings - Account Sharing which shared group they have access to.

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Under Groups, the user can see which groups have been shared with their account.

And on the Dashboard, they can also manage these groups.

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In your account, you can see under these settings with which users you have shared groups:

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You can change the settings of this shared group by clicking on it

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In the upper section, you can delete the account and add users

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In the lower section, you can disable access to the doorbell and manage the shared groups.

2. Temporary guest account

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  1. Assign a name to your guest account
  2. Select which groups the guest is allowed to control / read
  3. Click on the arrow to proceed to the next step
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Your guest account has now been created. Click on Account Overview to proceed and invite users.

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For each guest account, you can invite guests using an email address. This will generate a QR code that guests can use to log into a Qbus Control guest account.

Click Add (1) to add a user.

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  1. Set a time from which the guest account may be active
  2. Set a time until which the guest account may be active
  3. Enter one or more email addresses to add users
  4. Click on Add QR code to invite these users and generate a QR code

After this, you will return to the overview:

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  1. Click on the QR code to display it and adjust settings
  2. Click on Add to create another QR code
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Here is an overview of your Guest Account. You can scan the QR code, adjust the period, add extra users, or remove users.

Your guests have now received a QR code via email and can log in to a guest Qbus Control account.
With this account, you can only control shared groups, so the settings section is not available in this account.