App, alerts and account
What kinds of alerts will I get?
Two kinds — a zone leaving its range, and the system telling you it has gone quiet. Plus how thresholds arm, and how to silence an alert by shaking the Tali.
Tali sends two different kinds of message, and they answer different questions. Threshold alerts say something is wrong inside a zone. System notifications say something is wrong with the system that watches the zones.
Threshold alerts
A threshold alert fires when a zone leaves the range you set for it — the cellar climbs past its ceiling, the humidor dries below its floor.
Local alerts appear on the Tali screen itself and are included with every device for life. Alerts that reach you when you are not in the room are part of Cloud Pro, included for two years with the Founders Edition.
They arm on the first good reading
New thresholds do not fire straight away. When you set a zone’s limits for the first time, its alerts stay disarmed until the Puk reads a value inside the range you defined. That first in-range reading arms them — and from then on, if the zone leaves the range, an alert and a notification are reported to the app.
So a zone that has been out of range since the moment you set its limits has never armed, and will stay quiet. Set the range around where the zone actually is now, let the reading settle inside it, and then tighten.
System notifications
These do not come from a threshold. They tell you the system itself has stopped doing its job, which is worth knowing sooner than any reading — a monitor that has gone quiet is not protecting anything.
The app will notify you when:
- The Tali loses mains power. Unplugged, or the power went out.
- The cloud has not heard from your Tali for more than 30 minutes. Usually the network rather than the device.
- A Puk stops reporting its data to the Tali. Out of range, or a flat cell — see a Puk has stopped reporting.
Silencing an alert
Shake the Tali. An alert showing on the screen is dismissed by picking the unit up and giving it a shake — the same accelerometer that watches for vibration in your zones is what registers it, so there is no button to hunt for and nothing to open in the app.
Silencing an alert deals with the notice, not the cause. The zone is still outside its range until the reading comes back.