Key fob states versus home / away

[mparadis]

what are the differences between the key fob settings of arm / disarm / perimeter and the home / away settings?

[Fire69]

Keyfobs set the 'state' of your sensors and home/away just controls your notifications?

[mparadis]

What does changing the "state" of my sensors actually change?

[Fire69]

Hm, didn't explain it very well I guess

The sensors themselves don't actually change (if I understand it correctly myself ofcourse....), it's just the keyfob that changes to arm/disarmed.
This state can be used in a rule (IF keyfob armed AND motion detected THEN siren on)
The home/away settings are (for now?) just used to manage your notifications from the app I think?

[mparadis]

Ohh okay, now it makes total sense. Thanks!

[LGNilsson]

Currently the key fob doesn't really do anything.
You can use it as a remote using the rules, but the idea is that the arm/disarm would be the away/home modes longer term.

[mparadis]

Excellent that's what I was hoping for eventually.

[fillibar]

Is the keyfob controlling the home/away setting something to do with rules?
So that really ANY item could trigger you to be home or away as you desire?
While a keyfob would certainly be handy for it I can think of other ways using switches or motion detectors or combinations thereof. I think it would just be "neat" to be able to switch between home and away as a rule outcome.

[G-Rex]

That is what exactly we intend to do. 
With the new feature we can use Almond Mode as a Trigger as well as Actions for the Rules. Any device can toggle the Almond Home/Away Mode.

[fillibar]

Nice.
Combining ease of use with additional features and complexity for those that want it is difficult, but Securifi seems to be trying very hard to meet that ideal.