A mobile communications device to control two or more umbrellas includes one or more wireless communication transceivers, one or more processing devices, one or more memory device and computer-readable instructions executable by the one or more processors to perform a number of actions. The actions performed are to create a list of umbrellas associated with the mobile communications device; receive a selection of at least a first umbrella and a second umbrella to be assigned as a first umbrella group; assign the first umbrella and the second umbrella as the first umbrella group; receive a selection of commands, instructions, parameters or messages to be communicated to the first umbrella group; and communicate, via a wireless transceiver of the one or more wireless transceivers the selected commands, parameters, instructions or messages to a first umbrella and to a second umbrella.