---
title: "Choose what someone controls"
description: "Set the dashboards, rooms and controls one person gets. Lights for the kids, the alarm stays yours."
canonical: https://glasshome.app/docs/dash/guides/choose-access
section: "Guides"
updated: 2026-09-25
---
# Choose what someone controls

Everyone in your home can have a different set of keys. You change them on one card, and their screen picks up the change within about a second, even mid-use.

## Before you start

- You are an admin, and the person is already in your home. Not yet? [Invite them](/docs/dash/guides/invite-someone) first.
- You cannot change your own access, and only the owner can change another admin.
- The pictures come from the newest version of GlassHome, so yours may look a little different.

## Step 1: Open their card (You)

In **Settings**, under **People & Devices**, tap the person. Their row already sums up what they can reach.

![The People list in Settings with Sofia's row highlighted; it reads Bedroom, Living Room, no locks, no cameras](/assets/guides/choose-access/01-open-person.webp)

## Step 2: Pick their dashboards (You)

Leave **All dashboards** on, or switch it off and choose which dashboards they see, and whether they can edit them.

![Sofia's card with All dashboards off and each dashboard set to Off, View or Edit](/assets/guides/choose-access/02-dashboards.webp)

## Step 3: Pick their rooms (You)

Turn off **Whole home** and pick rooms. Devices in the other rooms do not exist for them.

![The Rooms section of Sofia's card with Whole home off and 2 rooms chosen in the picker](/assets/guides/choose-access/03-rooms.webp)

## Step 4: Decide what they can switch (You)

**Can control devices** lets them switch things; off means look only. Door locks, alarm, cameras and garage each have their own switch. Visiting for a week? Set **Access ends**.

![The Control section with Can control devices on and Door locks, Alarm, Cameras and Garage all off, above Access ends set to Never](/assets/guides/choose-access/04-control.webp)

## You are done when

Their row in People & Devices lists the rooms and what is off limits, and their screen has already caught up. Tap **Done** to close the card. What each switch means, and the limits worth knowing, are in [People & access](/docs/dash/people-and-access#give-someone-their-own-access).