Control All Smart Lights at Once on iPhone (Rooms & All-Off)

You don’t need to tap 8 bulbs one by one every night. The trick is to set up your lights so your “normal” actions are room-level actions, and your “I’m leaving” action is a single control you can hit from one screen.

Smart Home Controller (iOS app by Chorus Labs) is built around that workflow. It controls Tuya-platform and Smart Life-compatible devices (compatibility varies by model), organizes them by room, and gives you one-tap room on or off controls.

The fastest way, use rooms with one-tap on/off

If you only do 1 thing, do this. Rooms are how you get reliable “all lights in here” control without hunting through a device list.

What you need

• An iPhone with Smart Home Controller installed
• Smart lights that are Tuya-platform or Smart Life-compatible
• Your Smart Life account (if your devices already live there), or access to pair your Tuya devices

Steps

1. Open Smart Home Controller.
2. Get your devices into the app.
   • If you already use Smart Life, sign in with your Smart Life account so your existing devices import.
   • If you’re pairing new Tuya devices, pair them over 2.4 GHz Wi‑Fi (follow the manufacturer’s instructions for putting each light into pairing mode).
3. Create or pick a room.
4. Assign each light to the right room. Put “Living Room Lamp,” “Ceiling Light,” and “TV Backlight” in the same room if you want them to act together.
5. Use the room control to switch them together. Smart Home Controller lets you turn all lights in a room on or off with 1 tap.

Once your rooms are right, you’ll stop thinking about “devices” and start thinking about “spaces.” That’s what makes it fast.

One screen control, use the dashboard as your daily launcher

The dashboard is where you should live if your goal is speed. It shows every device with quick controls, plus weather, and commands run in real time.

A simple habit that helps, open the app, hit the room toggle, done. No digging.

If your dashboard feels cluttered, that’s usually a room organization problem. Clean rooms up first, then your daily controls get simpler automatically.

Ad-hoc groups, when rooms aren’t enough

Rooms are great when a space matches your wiring and your life. Sometimes it doesn’t.

Common cases:

• You want “Downstairs lights” but those lights live in multiple rooms.
• You want “Movie time” that includes lights from the living room plus a hallway light.

In those cases, make a small, intentional setup so you can still hit 1 control.

In Smart Home Controller, the most dependable way to do this is usually an automation that triggers the state you want (on or off) on a schedule or at sunrise/sunset. That gives you a single event that applies to multiple lights.

One-tap “all lights off,” set an automation you trust

If your goal is “I’m done for the night” or “I’m leaving,” don’t rely on manually selecting a bunch of devices. Use an automation so the action happens the same way every time.

Smart Home Controller automations can run on a schedule or at sunrise/sunset.

What you need

• All your lights imported or paired in Smart Home Controller
• Lights assigned to rooms (it keeps management sane, even if your automation spans multiple rooms)

Steps

1. Open Smart Home Controller and find automations.
2. Create a new automation.
3. Choose a trigger:
   • Schedule (best for a consistent bedtime), or
   • Sunrise/Sunset (best for daily rhythms).
4. Select the action for your lights: set them to Off.
5. Save, then test it while you’re watching. Don’t wait until you’re already in bed to find out a bulb didn’t respond.

If you want the “button” feeling, you can still treat this like a one-tap outcome. You open one app, from one place, and everything ends up off at a predictable time.

Use the color picker for quick “whole-room vibe” changes

Turning everything off is the big win, but you can also reduce friction when you want a quick color or brightness change.

Smart Home Controller gives RGB bulbs a color picker and brightness control. If you keep your RGB bulbs in the right room, you can quickly make that room feel consistent without hunting through each bulb.

Tip: If a room contains a mix of white-only and RGB bulbs, set your expectation. Color changes will only apply where the bulb supports it.

Troubleshooting, when “all at once” doesn’t work

Most “why didn’t all my lights change?” issues come from 3 places: account/import, Wi‑Fi band, or messy room organization.

• Symptom: Some lights don’t show up after signing in. Fix: Confirm you signed in with the same Smart Life account you used to set up those devices. If you have multiple Smart Life logins, it’s easy to pick the wrong one.

• Symptom: A light won’t pair, or pairing fails repeatedly. Fix: Make sure you’re pairing Tuya devices on 2.4 GHz Wi‑Fi. Also re-enter pairing mode per the manufacturer’s instructions (most Tuya lights signal pairing mode with a noticeable blink pattern).

• Symptom: Room on/off misses 1 light, but individual control works. Fix: Check that the light is actually assigned to that room. It’s common to import devices and leave them unassigned or in the wrong room.

• Symptom: You tap off and it feels delayed or inconsistent. Fix: Try again from the dashboard and watch which device lags. Real-time commands help you spot the one light that’s not responding, then you can focus on that device’s connectivity or pairing state.

• Symptom: You can’t get a “whole house” off control that matches your life. Fix: Keep rooms for organization, then use a schedule or sunrise/sunset automation to cover the cross-room “all off” moment.

Quick reference, what Smart Home Controller can do for lights

If you want this to feel effortless, spend your time on room setup once, then use room toggles and a single automation as your defaults.

Practical tip: name rooms the way you speak (“Kitchen,” “Bedroom,” “Porch”), then do a 30-second test where you toggle each room off and confirm every light you expect goes dark.