Your Touchstone system uses three things to automate your home…Rules, Modes, and Contacts.
Rules
Rules are the back bone of Touchstone Platform. No matter how great individual devices are, they are always better when they work together. The Rules Engine provides all of your devices a synergy that is unmatched anywhere else. You can tell your cameras to take a picture when your door opens and email it to you. You can have your lights turn on when you change the scene from ‘Away’ to ‘Home’. The possibilities are endless.
Modes
Unlike a security system, Touchstone does not utilize “arming” and “disarming” when you’re arriving or leaving your home. Instead, it offers “Modes”. Much like the functionality of security system, you can toggle different modes based on your lifestyle. Use the ‘Home’ mode while someone is in the house, and use the ‘Away’ mode while you’re at work and the house is empty. There are four(4) different types of modes, Home, Away, Vacation, and Night. Get alerts that your Front Door has been opened when you are at work, but not when you are home. Turn the lights on at 6:30 and off at 10:30 while you’re on Vacation. Set your Thermostat to cool when you place the system in Night mode. By using different rules from the Rules Engine combined with these modes, you can set your home to automate any way you like, no matter where you are in the world.
Contacts
The people defined in the Contacts for Rules page can be designated as recipients of emails and texts that are generated when a rule is triggered. These can be family members or possibly neighbors, if they will be checking your home while you are away on vacation.