HomeRoutines App

This feature lets you wirelessly backup your HomeRoutines data to a file on your computer, and restore it from there.  You must be connected via WiFi to a computer for it to work.

Backup Data

1. Make sure your computer is switched on, and is connected to WiFi
2. Make sure your phone is connected to WiFi
3. Touch Help & Support on the home screen of HomeRoutines, on your phone/iPod
4. Touch Backup and Restore
5. Touch the Backup Server switch so it says ON
   A new step will appear on HomeRoutines.  Your phone/iPod is temporarily creating a web server (accessible on your wifi network) so that you can download your data.
6. Open your browser on your computer, and type in the web address displayed on your phone/iPod
7. Right-click on the Save Your Data link and save the file with your data to your computer.
8. When you exit this screen, the web server on your phone will close

Remember where you saved it! And backup often.

Restore your Data from Backup

1. Make sure your computer is switched on, and is connected to WiFi
2. Make sure your phone is connected to WiFi
3. Touch Help & Support on the home screen of HomeRoutines, on your phone/iPod
4. Touch Backup and Restore
5. Touch the Backup Server switch so it says ON
   A new step will appear on HomeRoutines.  Your phone/iPod is temporarily creating a web server so that you can restore your data.
6. Open your browser on your computer, and type in the web address displayed on your phone/iPod
7. Click Browse and locate the backed up HomeRoutines data file
8. Click Upload to restore it to your phone/iPod

Alternative Method of Backing Up Data

If you have iOS 3.2 or later, you can back up your HomeRoutines data using the file sharing feature of iTunes.

1. Plug your phone, iPad or iPod touch in to your computer

   

2. Open iTunes and click on the name of your device.

   

3. Click Apps
4. Scroll down to the File Sharing section of the Apps tab

   

5. Click HomeRoutine and then select the data file – it will be called HomeRoutinesdata.homeroutines.
6. Click Save to… and choose where to save the file.

You cannot restore HomeRoutines data files from the file sharing tool here – you will need to use the Wifi method described above.