Connecting Minut sensors: noise, people, and smoke

Connect Minut sensors: noise, people, and smoke

Minut is a sensor for vacation rentals. It detects noise, too many people (via the number of nearby mobile phones), cigarette smoke, an alarm in the apartment, and sensor removal, without recording camera or sound. Xentra connects to your Minut organization and assigns each event to the booking currently staying in the unit. Minut is still marked as Beta in the Marketplace.

Prerequisites

• Minut Pro, Minut requires Pro for integrations.
• A Minut login that is an owner or admin in your Minut organization. With a different role, Xentra connects, but does not receive events.
• Team members need the permission Integrations.

Connect

1. Open Minut in Marketplace, or Integrations, Marketplace, card Minut, then Connect.
2. Click on Connect with Minut, log in to Minut in the window, and agree.
3. Under Minut homes and units, assign each Minut home to the unit where the sensor is installed. Events from a home without a unit are saved, but not assigned to any booking.

Later, you open the Minut window via the same card with Settings. There, under Latest events, you can see what has recently arrived.

Alerts

With Noise detected, Too many people, Smoking detected, Alarm heard, Sensor offline, Battery empty, and Sensor removed, you get a bell in Xentra and a push notification ("Minut alert"), at most once every 30 minutes per Minut home and type. Clicking the bell opens the booking, or the Minut window if no guest is currently staying in the unit.

You toggle push and email under Settings, Notifications, section Bookings, row Minut alert. The email is off until you turn it on.

Minut itself continues to send its own SMS, emails, and calls.

Bookings to Minut

For each Minut home, there is the Bookings to Minut toggle. It only works once a unit is assigned to the home. When turned on, Xentra creates the current and upcoming bookings for this unit as guests in Minut (name, check-in, check-out, phone, email) and keeps them up to date, even in case of changes and cancellations. The guest currently staying in the unit is also transferred. Before turning it on, Xentra shows how many bookings will be transferred. Xentra no longer sends past stays to Minut.

If you turn the toggle off again, Xentra removes current and upcoming guests from Minut; past ones remain. If you assign a different unit to the home, the toggle turns off and you turn it back on for the new unit.

Leave the toggle off if your PMS already sends your bookings to Minut itself, otherwise each guest will appear twice in Minut.

Frequently asked questions

• "Only users who are an owner or admin of the organization in Minut can receive events." Disconnect and reconnect with a Minut login that is an owner or admin.
• "Minut has stopped delivery after several failed attempts." or "Registration for events with Minut failed." Click Repair in the Minut window. Xentra also checks delivery itself once a day and catches up on missed events from the last 7 days for homes with a unit. Caught-up events do not trigger an alert.
• "Minut no longer accepts the registration from Xentra." Disconnect and reconnect.
• "This Minut organization is already connected to another Xentra account." Disconnect it in the other account first.
• What happens upon disconnecting? Xentra logs out of Minut and deletes the assignments, the "Bookings to Minut" toggles, and all saved Minut events. In Minut itself, everything remains intact, including the transferred guests.