User Manual

Version 2.2 March 2005 iControl Confidential page 12
Change or Set Notifications
A notification is an email or SMS (Short Message Service also referred to as text
messaging) message sent to your PC, PDA, or cell phone alerting you that a device
recognized a change in your location. For example, a Motion Sensor may sense that
someone has entered a room; a Door/Window Sensor may report that a door is open.
Here is an example of an email notification sent to ‘[e-mail]’ regarding his
office Motion Sensor detecting that someone occupied his office at 8:31PM on 10 July
2004.
[Note to reader: the wording of an email notification will change for the shipping product from this cryptic style
to proper grammar and composition]
You can assign notifications on a mode or device basis. In Home mode, you may not want
to receive notifications while someone is home. In Sleep mode and Away mode, you may
or may not want to receive notifications. In Away mode, you may want to receive an email
notification any time a device recognizes a change at your house. For example, every
time a window or door opens, you can set notifications under the Notification tab to
generate an email.
IN BETA, YOUR NOTIFICATIONS ARE PRE-ASSIGNED SUCH THAT IN AWAY MODE,
YOU WILL RECEIVE AN EMAIL NOTIFICATION IF MOTION IS DETECTED OR IF A
DOOR/WINDOW SENSOR GOES FROM CLOSED TO OPEN. You can change this pre-
set notification as described later in this chapter.
Note: In the shipping product, users will be able to:
• assign different notifications for different sensor states in each mode
• attach a picture to their notification. They will be able to click on a picture
and attach it to their email or text message notification