Homie chats

Chats belong to the surface where they happen. A shared iPad conversation is not the same thing as a member-owned phone chat.

Use the product path below before trying to solve this from chat alone.

Menu labels are written as they appear in Homie.

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   Open Personal Homie -> Chats for private member chats.

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   Use the shared household screen only for household chat.

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   Use project chat when the conversation should stay attached to a project.

Shared dashboard talk uses the household experience. Personal mobile uses private chat sessions owned by a claimed member phone.

Project chats bind a personal chat to a goal so project context can persist.

Channel chats, such as message or email history, are different again: they reflect a connected communication channel and should stay with the person or household view that owns them.

Homie can use recent conversation, private chat messages, project context, attachments, result cards, voice input, and connected channel history when they belong to the current chat.

A written personal chat response is silent by default and stays in the private personal chat. It should not broadcast private results into another chat.

A voice reply belongs to the device that asked. A private written result belongs in the private chat. A shared dashboard moment belongs on the shared household surface.

Personal chats require a claimed mobile member device. Voice requires microphone permission.

Private chat events are tied to the chat they belong to. One private chat should not receive a result card, approval, or map from another chat.

Use the surface that matches the job. Shared dashboard, personal phone, mail, and voice are intentionally different.

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   Use separate chats for separate projects.

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   Name long-running chats so they are easy to reopen.

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   Attach screenshots or images when the question depends on visual context.

Most Homie issues come from setup, identity, or approval state. Work through these checks before assuming Homie ignored the request.

• Check whether the question belongs on the shared dashboard, personal mobile, mail, or voice.
• Verify the required permission, account, or microphone setting is enabled.
• Use personal mobile for private member content and the shared screen for household content.

What stays private: If a phone is unclaimed, it falls back to public/shared behavior and confidential member memory stays hidden.

• Use separate chats for separate projects.
• Name long-running chats so they are easy to reopen.
• Attach screenshots or images when the question depends on visual context.

• Start a new private chat.
• Bind this chat to my flat project.
• Summarize this thread.