Community Home Themes: Use, Remix and Publish

Community Home themes are Mazda Connect Home screens that ScreenTune owners made in the Home editor and published. They are free. Anyone can browse them in the community gallery. Remixing one is free with an email. Using one on a car, and publishing your own, needs ScreenTune (Home is included).

The car holds one Home. Using a community theme makes it your car’s Home in place of the one it has, and the car gets it with your next ScreenTune USB package.

Browse and preview

The gallery shows each published theme’s name, its publisher’s @username, how many cars added it, and how many remixes it has (a new theme shows neither).

• New sorts by the latest publish; Popular by how many cars added the theme.
• Search matches theme names and @usernames.
• Select a @username to see only that person’s themes. Show everyone’s clears it.

Design a Home screen at the top of the gallery starts a new design in the Home editor, free with an email.

A theme’s page shows the theme’s picture, then swaps in a live preview. Under Try it, Previous, Select, Next, Back, and Home stand in for the commander knob, so you can step through its shortcuts and menus as you would in the car. The page shows when the theme was published or last Updated, how many cars it is on, and its remixes.

Version history lists every version with its date and notes. Preview this one shows an older version, and Show the latest goes back.

Copy link copies the page’s address. Copy link for social posts copies an api.miatafy.com/share/home/… address that shows the theme’s picture and name when pasted into a chat or post, then opens the same page.

Use a theme on your car

1. On the theme’s page, select Use on my car. While you preview an older version, the button reads Use version 2 on my car, and that version is the one the car gets.
2. With more than one car on your account, choose the car under For first.
3. The page answers Your car’s Home becomes Pit Wall after your next update., with a link to Open My Home designs. The button reads On your car.

Nothing is copied. The car’s choice points at the version you picked, and the theme goes into your library in My Home designs. The car stays on that version when its publisher publishes a new one.

While the car doesn’t have its new Home yet, Send to my car appears beside On your car. It requests the USB package and answers We’ll email your USB package when it’s ready. Install it as in save and send your Home screen.

Signed out, Use on my car opens a sheet: community Home themes are free with ScreenTune.

• I own it: sign in signs you in and brings you back to the page, which makes the theme your car’s Home.
• Buy ScreenTune opens the order options. This browser remembers the theme for 30 days, and makes it your car’s Home the first time you open My ScreenTune with an active license, which is after you set up your car. It reaches the car with your next package, not the first one.

Signed in with a free account, the button reads Use on my car with Needs ScreenTune, and opens the same sheet. Buy ScreenTune works the same way when you buy with the email you are signed in with; Other email? Sign in is for a ScreenTune order under another email. An email that has a ScreenTune order but signed in without a code is asked for the six-digit code first.

Answer	Meaning
Your car’s Home becomes Pit Wall after your next update.	The theme is your car’s choice and in your library. Send to my car sends it now.
This theme is no longer published, so it can’t be used on a car.	Its publisher withdrew it, or Miatafy removed it, before you used it.
Your ScreenTune license isn’t active, so it can’t change your car’s Home.	An inactive license can’t change the car. Remixing still works.

Remix a theme

Remix copies the version you are looking at into your library as a new design and opens it in the Home editor. The copy is yours to change, and the original is untouched.

Remixing is free. Signed out, Remix asks for your email first, and the remix is saved to your Home designs. An email that has an account already gets a six-digit code to enter. The editor shows Remix of Pit Wall by @username under the top bar, linked to the original while it is published, and the gallery shows the same credit if you publish the remix.

My Home designs

My Home designs (/car/home/) opens from the Your Home screen card in My ScreenTune. It shows what is on your car, then your library.

On your car. The car’s Home, with its picture and name, and either Sent to your car or Not sent yet with what the car still has. Send to my car appears while the car is behind its choice. The ⋯ menu holds Restore factory Home…, which requests a package that puts Mazda’s own Home back; your designs stay online (restore factory Home).

My library. Every Home design you made, every remix, and every community theme you used, with no limit. All, Designs, Remixes, and Community filter the list.

• Your designs and remixes have Use on my car, Edit, and Publish (or Publish changes once published). Their ⋯ menu holds Rename in the editor and Delete.
• Community themes have Use on my car and View. Their ⋯ menu holds Use version 3, the latest when a newer version is out, Remix, and Remove from library. The card reads Version 2. Version 3 is out. with See what changed.

Use on my car answers Your car’s Home becomes … after your next update. Choose Send to my car when you’re ready. A card that was sent before reads On your car until your next Home update once you choose another.

A design that is the car’s Home can’t be deleted: This design is your car’s Home. Choose another one first. Deleting a design removes its saved versions and can’t be undone. Its published theme, if any, stays in the gallery but can’t get new versions.

New design opens the editor on a blank design, and Browse the gallery opens the community gallery. Signed in with a free account, the page shows your designs only, with ScreenTune offered in place of the car.

Publish a design

Publishing needs an active ScreenTune license on the email you design with, and a sign-in confirmed with the code emailed to you. In the editor, select Publish in the top bar (in More on a phone), or select Publish on the design’s card in My Home designs. Unsaved changes save first.

Without ScreenTune, Publish opens Share with ScreenTune. The design is already saved to your email.

• Buy ScreenTune opens car setup. Buy with the same email and your designs, this one included, are in your library. My Home designs then offers Ready to publish ? with Publish.
• Own it with another email? Sign in signs in with the email on your ScreenTune order.
• Keep designing closes the sheet.

The publish dialog has four steps.

1. Choose a public name the first time. It is the same name as for Meters themes, and it shows on everything you publish. The rules: 3–24 letters, numbers, - or _, starting and ending with a letter or number. Names that are taken, reserved or not allowed are refused.
2. Describe it. The theme’s name is the design’s name, up to 40 characters; change it in the editor’s top bar. A remix still called what its original is called must get a name of its own: It’s still called Pit Wall, like the theme you remixed. Give your remix its own name. The description is optional, up to 500 characters of plain text. From the second version on, What changed adds up to 500 characters of notes for that version.
3. Confirm the rights. Tick I made this, or have the right to share it, and anyone may use it for free. For a remix the box reads I changed this remix of Pit Wall by @username, and anyone may use it for free. If the design has pictures you uploaded, the dialog says Your pictures will be public with this theme.
4. Select Publish. The theme is live at once: is live in the gallery, with View, Copy link, and Your published themes.

A design that can’t go to a car isn’t published: the dialog lists its problems under Fix these first. A theme that can’t go on a car isn’t published. Names, descriptions, and notes pass through a word filter. Themes are not reviewed before they go live.

Each publish is a numbered version. A version never changes afterwards. Publishing again answers Your changes are live. People using an earlier version keep it until they choose this one. Publishing the same design unchanged answers This version is already in the gallery. Change the design, save it, then publish again. You can publish 10 times an hour and 50 times a day.

Manage what you published

Your published Home themes (/car/home/published/, linked from My Home designs and from the publish dialog) lists each theme as In the gallery, Withdrawn, or Removed by Miatafy.

• Publish changes opens the design in the editor on its publish dialog, for a new version.
• View opens its page in the gallery.
• The ⋯ menu holds Edit description, which changes the page without a new version, and Withdraw from the gallery. Withdrawing asks first: the cars using the theme keep it, at the version they chose. Put back in the gallery republishes it at the same version.

Deleting the design from your library leaves the published theme up, but it can’t get new versions.

When a theme leaves the gallery

A theme its publisher withdraws, or that Miatafy removes, disappears from the gallery and its page reads This theme is no longer published. Cars and libraries that already have it keep their version; its card in My Home designs says No longer published or Removed from the community gallery. Nobody can use or remix it until it is back.

Uploaded pictures in a published theme are public, like the rest of the design. To report a theme, select Report this theme on its page. It opens an email to support@miatafy.com with the theme’s ID filled in. The terms cover what publishers are responsible for and when Miatafy takes a theme down.

Change your public name

Your published Home themes shows your public name with Change. A name can change once every 30 days, and the change applies to your Meters themes too. The old name stays reserved for you for 30 days, so nobody else can take it in the meantime, and you can take it back.