Before You Start

akubela allows you to configure and control your home with HyPanel devices, the user web portal and BelaHome app, with or without a cloud connection.  

This section clarifies some terms you may encounter in this guide: the home center device, the user web portal, and the Auto Discovery mode.

What the Home Center is

The home center is the main control hub for all devices in your home. When a device is designated as the home center during the initial setup, it becomes your primary controlling center with exclusive capabilities. With the home center and its user web interface, you can tailor your smart home system including but not limited to:

• Manage all family members accounts.

• Create and personalize your automation scenes.

• Configure the default security modes and create custom modes.

• Reset arming/disarming code and the PIN password for system lock.

• Customize the functions displayed on specific panels.

Identify the designated home center

To see which device is the home center within the family, swipe down from top edge of any screen, then tap > System Settings > About > Family > Home Center MAC.

Login to user web portal

To log in to the user web portal, do one of the following based on the home center device’s cloud connection status:

1. When connected to the cloud.

• Make sure your computer and the devices are on the same local network.

• Enter any of the device’s IP address in the browser, or go to https://my.akubela.com.

• Log in with the family’s administrator account.

How to get the administrator account? Please see here.

2. When never connected with the cloud.

• Make sure your computer and the devices are on the same local network.

• Type in any of the device’s IP address into the browser.

• Log in with the administrator account whose default username and password are both Admin888.

You can see here to learn more about the user web portal.

Usage modes

You can use devices with or without cloud connectivity, depending on how your service provider sets them up.

Auto Discovery Mode

When the Auto Discovery mode is selected in the initial setups, then the entire system runs on the same local network without a cloud connection. This mode automatically detects all HyPanel devices and door phones in the same network and can group them into one family. In this mode, your data remains on the device, not the cloud, for more privacy and security.

Devices in Auto Discovery mode can be connected to the cloud at any time. To do it, please contact your service provider.

Note that if you use the Auto Discovery mode and never establish cloud connection, the following functions are unavailable:

• Receive updates pushed by the cloud server,

• Remotely control devices via BelaHome App. In this case, the app can only be used usage within the local area network.

Cloud mode

Weather broadcast on the panel's screen indicates that your devices are connected to the Cloud. In this case, all devices operate with full functionality, receiving updates pushed by the cloud server and allowing remote control through the BelaHome App.

Please be aware that if cloud-connected devices switch their network connection from the Internet to a local area network, the following functions will become unavailable:

• Reset system locks and arming code via registered email;

• Use BelaHome app when the phone connected to the Internet.