Tamper noticesShipped
Told when a sensor is disturbed
A sensor that is opened, removed or knocked raises a Home Watch notice. Shipped 11 October 2026.
Read the note →Home Watch
Know what's happening at home, when you're not there.
Home Watch turns the sensors you already own into notifications that reach you first. It is built from your own door, motion and tamper sensors, with no cameras and no cloud account holding the picture of your home.
ShippedNext
Running today
What you get now.
Attention listShipped
Quiet devices, named
The box names devices that have gone quiet, are tampered with or have a flat battery, so a dead sensor does not sit unnoticed. Shipped 14 October 2026.
PresenceShipped
Knows who's home
Heating and lighting follow the people actually in the house, and the lights are made to look lived in when nobody is.
NotificationsShipped
Reach you first
Instant messages to your phone, from your own devices, before anything else.
Arming modes
Disarmed, Night, Away.
Try the design below. This is the next big piece of Home Watch and is in development, so treat it as a preview, not a feature you can buy today.
Arming modes preview
NextDisarmed
In Disarmed mode Home Watch watches nothing. Filled sensors with a dashed ring are watched.
Watched: nothing is treated as a breach.
You are home and moving freely. Sensors still report to the box.
Night
In Night mode Home Watch watches front, back and patio doors. Filled sensors with a dashed ring are watched.
Watched: the perimeter doors only (front, back and patio).
You are in bed. Doors are watched, movement indoors is ignored. An open sensor is named before arming.
Away
In Away mode Home Watch watches all three doors and movement in the hall, kitchen and living room. Filled sensors with a dashed ring are watched.
Watched: everything: all doors and movement in every room.
Nobody is home. An exit delay lets you leave, an entry delay lets you disarm on the way in.
Example delays are shortened to 10 seconds here. Real delays will be yours to set. After the entry delay, breach response (lights, a speaker warning, notifications until you disarm, and an incident record) is a separate step, also Next.
Coming next
What is in development.
Arming modesNext
Disarmed, Night and Away
Pick a mode and the box watches the right sensors for it: perimeter doors at night, everything when you are away.
DelaysNext
Exit and entry delays
Time to leave and time to disarm on the way in, with a countdown, so you are never racing the box.
Open-sensor refusalNext
No silent gaps
If a door or window sensor is open, the box names it before arming instead of arming with a gap.
Breach responseNext
Lights, voice and notifications
Lights, a speaker warning, and notifications until you disarm, then an incident record of what happened.
Questions
Straight answers.
Is Home Watch an alarm?
Home Watch sends you notifications from your own sensors. It is not a certified alarm installation and does not replace a professionally installed alarm with a response service, or your smoke and carbon monoxide alarms.
What can Home Watch do today?
Tamper notices are running on production boxes: a sensor that is opened, removed or knocked raises a notice. The attention list names devices that have gone quiet or have a flat battery. Presence, who is home, and instant messaging notifications are also shipped. Arming modes are still in development.
When do arming modes arrive?
Arming modes (Disarmed, Night and Away), entry and exit delays, and breach response are marked Next because they are in development. We do not promise a date. Each step appears on the news page when it ships.
What if a door is open when I try to arm?
The design is that the box names the open sensor and refuses to arm until it is closed, rather than arming with a hidden gap. This is in development and marked Next.
Does it work if the broadband is down?
The watching runs on the box in your house, so it carries on when broadband drops. Sending a message to your phone needs a way out of the house, which is what the optional mobile-data plan is for.
Important. Home Watch sends you notifications from your own sensors. It is not a certified alarm installation and does not replace a professionally installed alarm with a response service, or your smoke and carbon monoxide alarms.
Later
An optional professional response service.
For people who want a trained voice on the end of the line, we are working on an optional professional response service. Planned
Launching early 2027
Questions about Home Watch?
Tell us what you would want it to do and we'll let you know as it ships. No spam, no list-selling.