The good news: Responding to user complaints, you can now do all of this via the web, if you don’t want to have to rely on the mobile app.
Here you’ll find that rules are divided not by sensor but by category, which include headings like Buttons & Fobs, Care, Climate, Smoke & CO, Water, Notifications, and more.įiguring out which category corresponds to what you’re trying to accomplish isn’t always intuitive, and even I-and I consider myself pretty seasoned with these types of things-spent far too long trying to figure out where to go to set up a simple alert if movement was detected by the motion sensor. Setting up rules means delving into the rather complex rule-generation portion of the app. Get used to scrolling through convoluted lists like this when setting up rules. Until you set up IFTTT-like rules for the sensors, none of these products actually do anything. Iris is designed with simplicity in mind-or, at least, for someone who would buy their security system at a hardware store-but once you have your sensors installed, that’s where things get a little tough.
