Night mode options
Hi! Trying out your product. I like the night mode option but it needs more flexibility.
1) Night mode needs to be able to set the delay-to-close time for NN minutes or NN hours instead of being hard-coded for 5 minutes - please.
Why? For instance, what happens when we take the pets outside to relieve themselves and it takes longer than 5 minutes? With today's night-mode, door will go down before we return.
I'm trying to also cover the case the kids exit thru the garage and walk to the neighbors and forget to close the door. (no cars involved) FWIW, I came home just last week to find the door wide open for that very reason. So I'm thinking, "I'll turn on NightMode for 24 hours a day".. but wait, the first time the wife gets caught outside in the pouring rain with multiple wet dogs and a closed door, well that will be end of "night mode" for sure.
Of course, I'd like to be able to override or turn off nightmode easier when I'm working outside in the yard and I think I can do that simple enough. Thanks.
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Official comment
Hi Everyone,
A couple things:
1) We hear you loud and clear. Night Mode time will be made adjustable soon.
2) We do have a separate "timer to close" as noted in this thread. That timer is active 24 hours per day and you can set it to notify only, or notify and close after X minutes. You can set it up to 60 minutes. This timer also sends you a warning notification that Tailwind is going to close the door soon. This is meant to shoot you a message so if you're still outside you'll get the message before it actually closes the door. Obviously of no use if you don't have your phone with you, but we do try to give a warning first!
Bottom line - we will make Night Mode time adjustable soon, and you have 2 options for auto-close timers in our system.
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There is a setting in the app to send you a reminder if the door is left open. You can adjust the amount of time. Right below it is a check box if you want it to actually close the door in addition to the reminder, If I remember correctly, it's not the same setting as the night mode - I think it is in addition to night mode.
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Hi - any update on this? Night mode is invaluable but those times when I'm doing something in the garage at night, I'm constantly caught off guard and stopping it from closing on me too soon. And if I disable it I'm afraid I'll forget to re-enable. Adjustable would be perfect, but fixed options like 5-15-30-60 minutes would work too.
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