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Build a smart home system
Kliv is an AI app builder. Describe how your installation company works, and it builds a smart home service system for homes, devices, alerts, visits, and clients.
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What is Kliv?
Kliv isn’t another remote-control app for homeowners — it’s an AI that builds software for you.
You describe the app you need in your own words, and Kliv builds it: the records, rules, screens, alerts, and portals. What you get is a real application that’s yours. You can run it on your own domain, connect it to your own accounts, and change it later by asking. It isn’t a template with a few settings.
On this page, that app is a smart home service system for the company behind the installs. Kliv builds all kinds of web apps; service operations is one example.
Why installers need their own system
A homeowner may see a phone full of vendor apps. The company that installs and services dozens of homes has a different problem: which house stopped reporting, what was installed, which warranty is active, what was promised at handover, and whether next Tuesday’s visit has the right parts.
Vendor apps do not keep that company knowledge. Kliv builds the service system around homes, devices, alerts, visits, parts, plans, and homeowner access.
The house, on the company’s books
These records keep the service side of the work organized.
Homes and service plans
Each client home keeps address, panel and network notes, plan tier, handover date, and contact details. What was promised lives beside what was installed.
The device registry
Every installed device can have serial number, install date, firmware at last visit, and warranty clock. If one shade motor starts failing early, the affected homes are findable.
Alerts and triage rules
Hub events land as alert rows. Editable rules decide whether to wait, file for morning, or page the on-call person.
Visits and parts
Every visit keeps its punch list, time on site, and parts used. A new technician can read the history before ringing the bell.
The homeowner’s window
A client signs in to one home only. They can see their device list, manuals, visit history, and a report-a-problem button.
An example: Beatrix’s smart home service company
Here’s how one installer might use it. It’s only an example — you would describe your own homes, devices, and service rules.
A quiet hub becomes an alert row
The Brookfell media hub misses its check-in. The app records the event and starts the triage clock.
The rule waits out ordinary noise
The router comes back but the hub does not. After the wait time, the rule marks this as a real issue.
The right issue waits until morning
It is the media hub, not the alarm panel, so the alert files for tomorrow instead of paging the on-call rotation overnight.
The technician leaves with the right part
The registry knows the hub’s device type and power supply. The technician brings the replacement and closes the visit from the driveway with parts logged.
Repeated alerts reveal a larger job
The third dropout in three months shows up in the review. Beatrix’s team quotes a network refit from the recorded pattern.
Describe the service system you need
Kliv builds from your description, so the more detail you give, the closer the first version. Include homes, devices, alerts, service plans, visits, and client access. Here are three to build on:
Service desk system
Client homes, device registries, alerts, and on-call rules.
“Build a service system for a smart home company with 70 client homes, device registries with serial numbers, firmware notes, install dates, and warranty dates, alert rows created from hub webhooks, and on-call escalation rules by event type and severity.”
Homeowner care portal
Manuals, visit history, and problem reports.
“Build a client portal where each homeowner signs in to see only their own home, device list, manuals, visit history, and open issues, and can file a problem report with photos from their phone.”
Install and handover
Room punch lists and service records.
“Build an install tracker for automation projects with room-by-room punch lists, panel and network notes, handover sign-off, uploaded documents, and a document pack that becomes the home’s service record.”
The part no vendor app ships
Events become service records. Each hub brand can report through a server-side function that turns webhooks into alert rows. Commands such as a reboot can call the vendor’s API from a server-side function, with API keys stored in Kliv’s secret store.
Documents stay with the home. Rack photos, network maps, handover documents, and manuals live in the file store under the home. The company can see working material; the homeowner sees what you choose to show.
The client portal reduces status calls. Because the homeowner window reads the same records as the office, “is it fixed yet?” can become a page the client checks.
The more ordinary cases are covered at the nearer kind of internal tool.
Common questions
What exactly is Kliv?
Kliv is an AI app builder. You describe the smart home service system you need, it builds the working app, and you own the result.
Do I get a real app, or a template?
A real app. Kliv builds records for homes, devices, alerts, visits, parts, plans, and homeowner access.
Can I change it after it’s built?
Yes. Ask for a new device field, triage rule, visit checklist, or homeowner view.
Does Kliv talk to Zigbee, Z-Wave, or Matter devices directly?
No. Controllers and hubs keep speaking to the hardware. The app listens to what they report and can call vendor APIs where that integration is available.
Can one homeowner see another’s house?
No. Each home’s records carry their own scope, and the homeowner portal reads through that rule.
How do alerts avoid false alarms?
Triage rules can wait, check severity, and route by event type. You can change those rules as the on-call team learns what matters.
Can it handle monthly service plans?
Yes. If you sell plans, they can run as subscriptions through Stripe on your company’s account, and plan status can show on the home record.
Where do manuals and rack photos live?
In the app’s file store, attached to the home record. You decide which files the homeowner can see and which stay internal.
Can technicians use it from the driveway?
Yes. The visit view can show punch lists, parts, device history, and documents on a phone or tablet.
Can I use my own domain?
Yes. The service app and homeowner portal can run on your own domain.
Can I move off Kliv later?
Yes. The code syncs to your own Git repository, so leaving is a git pull rather than a rebuild.
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Build the service board behind the installs
Describe your homes, devices, alerts, visits, parts, plans, and homeowner access in as much detail as you like. Kliv builds the system around that work.