Suite Manager, your control room

Suite Manager is where you run your suite. It lives at home.<your-domain>/suite-manager/, shares its sign-in with your Home dashboard, and is designed around one promise: you should never need a terminal for everyday ownership.

The menu, top to bottom

• Dashboard — jumps back to your Home dashboard, the tile page the whole household uses.
• Apps — the app store and the lifecycle of everything you install: install from the catalog or your own repository, connect apps to each other, update them one by one, restart, disable, uninstall, and per-app setup guides. See Install and manage apps.
• Customize — shape your Home dashboard: add links and home-network services, rearrange groups, or edit the underlying configuration directly. See Customize your Homepage.
• Backup — manual whole-suite backups to an attached external drive on own hardware or a mounted block-storage volume on a cloud server, plus restore. See Back up and restore.
• Updates — check for and apply updates to the platform, and choose your update track. Individual apps update from the Apps screen instead. See Keep your suite up to date.
• Settings — the real domain + HTTPS setup for self-hosted installs, and a plain-language summary of recent security activity on your server over the last 30 days.
• Sign out.

Conventions worth knowing

Plain language first, details on demand. Every screen explains its state in normal words. The raw material — logs, generated configuration, IDs, technical output — is always there too, tucked behind an Advanced details disclosure. You never need it; it’s never hidden from you.

Nothing happens silently. Actions that change your machine show progress while they run and report honestly when something fails. Destructive actions (uninstalling an app, restoring a backup) require explicit confirmation and say exactly what will be lost.

Screens degrade honestly. Each feature is backed by a small dedicated service on the machine (see Host agents). If one is unreachable, its screen says so plainly — for example “The host backup service is not running” — instead of failing mysteriously. Running an update refreshes all of these services; that resolves most such messages.

Owner account security

Repeated failed sign-in attempts receive progressively longer, temporary delays. This slows online password guessing without permanently locking the single owner out. Multi-factor authentication and passkeys are not available yet, so use a unique password from a password manager and do not reuse it for an app or another service.

Where Suite Manager ends

Suite Manager deliberately does not manage things inside your apps — Seafile’s libraries, Immich’s albums, Vaultwarden’s vaults all belong to the apps themselves and their own admin tools. Suite Manager runs the platform around them: installing, connecting, routing, backing up, and updating.