Viewing and sharing Highlights in mobile app and web portal
Use Highlights to get a quick summary of what happened in your home throughout the day
Use Highlights to quickly get up to speed on what is happening at home through a visual summary of key events in a compelling story format with short video clips. This feature makes it easy to see when your family leaves the home in the morning, who armed the house, when the mail was delivered and more.
Highlights can be viewed using either the TELUS SmartHome app or web portal. You can also download and share the clips using the mobile app.
Requirements
To use Highlights, you must meet the following requirements:
- You must have a TELUS SmartHome app on app version 4.11.3 (iOS) or 4.12.2 (Android) and above
- You must have either an Indoor or Outdoor camera on your account
Features
The Highlights summary shows a short selection of the most important events of the day. The following types of events may be included in the selection:
- Smart Door Locks are locked/unlocked
- Doors and Window Sensors are opened/closed
- Smart Garage Door Openers are opened/closed
- The system is armed/disarmed
- The Smart Thermostat setpoint is changed
- Motion is detected
- Alarms are triggered
- Video and doorbell camera clips are recorded
The feature allows the user to:
- Tap the rewind icon to view previous days
- Tap an event thumbnail or icon to go to a specific event
- Tap the player area to pause and play interactions
To view Highlights using the TELUS SmartHome app
- Log into the TELUS SmartHome app
- Tap to expand the Highlights card
- Once finished, the screen will display "You’re all caught up!"
To view Highlights using the web portal
- Log in to the web portal
- Click Activity
- Click to expand Highlights for any desired day
- Once finished, the screen will display "You’re all caught up!"
To download and share Highlights using the TELUS SmartHome app
You can easily save and share Highlights videos of funny and interesting moments captured on your video cameras from the TELUS SmartHome App. When you tap Download or Share, all video clips currently displayed are combined to create a single Highlights reel. The reel can then be saved and shared from your mobile device through text, email or posts to social media.
- Log in to the TELUS SmartHome app
- Tap to expand the Highlights card
- Wait for the Highlights reel to finish playing
- In Highlights, tap either Download or Share