Name your zones and set thresholds

A zone is anywhere you put a Puk — a cellar, a humidor, a display cabinet, a safe. One Tali watches several at once, each with its own readings and its own limits.

Name each zone for the thing it protects rather than the room it is in. “Humidor” and “Cellar” tell you what an alert means at a glance; “Sensor 2” does not.

Thresholds are the whole point

A reading on its own is a number. A reading against a threshold is a judgement — and thresholds are what turn Tali from a thermometer into a guard. Start from a preset if your collection is a common one, then adjust: your cellar’s normal is not a textbook’s normal, and a limit that fires constantly gets ignored.

Set them a little wider than you think, watch for a week, and tighten. A threshold you trust is worth more than a threshold that is theoretically correct.

Alerts arm on the first good reading

One thing to expect: a zone’s alerts do not start the moment you save its limits. They stay disarmed until the Puk reads a value inside the range you set — so set the range around where the zone actually is now, let it settle in range, then tighten. What kinds of alerts will I get? covers this and the rest of what Tali will tell you about.

Where alerts arrive

Local alerts appear on the Tali screen and are included with every device, forever. Alerts that reach you when you are not in the room — push notifications, away from home — are part of Cloud Pro, which is included for two years with the Founders Edition.