Picture a lake house near Tahoe. It sleeps six, the guests love it, and you live four hours away. Between one checkout and the next check-in, nobody is there.
A normal alarm is no use here. It does not know that the family arriving on Friday is meant to be there, or that the cleaners come at ten on Sunday. So it gets switched off, and the house is protected by nothing but a lockbox and hope.
Vacation Home fixes that. You paste your listing’s calendar link once. From then on, the house knows when it is meant to be busy, and when it is meant to be empty. Here is one week.
Setting up
Paste a link. Set three times.
In the SecureProtect app, Vacation Home is a step in your Halo settings. Paste your listing’s calendar link (Airbnb, VRBO, Booking.com and cleaning apps such as Turno all share one), add your cleaners’ calendar if they keep their own, and check the times: 3 pm check-in and 10 am checkout by default, with a five-hour cleaning window. Most hosts paste the link and tap Save.
Sunday · 10:04 am · checkout
The Keller family pull out of the driveway with their kayaks on the roof. You are at your daughter’s swimming lesson, two hundred miles away.
What jupyter does. Checkout has passed, so jupyter stays stood down for the cleaning window. Nothing sounds while the cleaners work.
Sunday · 10:24 am · the garage
One of the cars jupyter saw all week drives off. The garage door is still open behind it.
What jupyter does. You get a card on your phone: the garage was left open after checkout. One tap closes it. jupyter never moves the door on its own.
Sunday · 3:05 pm · ready for the next guests
The cleaners have locked up and gone. You are wondering whether they remembered the garage, the back door, the parcel that was due.
What jupyter does. A single check tells you: cleaners gone, garage shut, doors closed, no parcel waiting, the Hub online. Ready for the next guests. And now the house arms itself.
Between stays
An empty house that does not look empty.
From the end of cleaning to two hours before the next check-in, the house protects itself: the sounds of a lived-in home from the Halo, parcel watch, alerts for anyone lingering, and the siren for breaking glass, a loud bang or a call for help.
Tuesday · 2:40 am · the back deck
Someone has driven past twice since Sunday. No cars in the driveway, no lights, no one in two days. Tonight he walks up the side path and stops at the back deck, looking in at the windows.
What jupyter does. LoiterAI notices someone lingering where nobody should be, and you get an alert with the clip. If glass breaks, the Halo sounds its siren. You decide what happens next.
Wednesday · 11:15 am · a delivery
The replacement coffee grinder you ordered for the kitchen arrives. It sits by the front door for two days before the next guests.
What jupyter does. Parcel watch is on whenever the house is empty. You know it arrived, and you hear about it if anyone other than the courier reaches for it.
During a stay
It steps back.
While guests are booked in, and while the cleaners get the place ready, jupyter stands down. It steps back two hours before check-in, so early arrivals are never met by a siren. Outdoor cameras still record when they detect something, as they always do. There are no indoor cameras.
Friday · 1:30 pm · an early arrival
Priya and her friends arrive an hour and a half early, tired from the drive and hoping the door code works.
What jupyter does. Check-in is at three, and jupyter stood down at one. They walk into a quiet house, not a siren. If you need a different buffer for a listing, you set it.
Saturday · 10:40 pm · a quiet word
The booking says four guests. The driveway says otherwise.
What jupyter does. You enter the guest count when you set up the stay, since calendars do not include it. When the outdoor cameras see about eleven people, you get a card with a snapshot of the group, and you choose whether to message the guests.
Halo Concierge
A welcome, by name.
Switch on Halo Concierge and the Indoor Halo becomes the host who is always there.
Friday · 3:12 pm · the welcome
Priya’s friends are carrying the bags in when the Halo speaks up: “Hi Priya, welcome to Lakeview. A few house rules before you settle in.”
What jupyter does. Concierge uses the first name you entered for the booking. It never recognises faces. It reads your house rules, tells guests the weather, suggests the best places to eat and things to do nearby, answers questions about the house, and reminds them about checkout on the last morning. It listens only for its wake word, you switch it on, and it is disclosed to guests.
Every stay
Between one stay and the next.
Whether the next guests arrive tomorrow or at the weekend, the calendar does the work. Booked nights mean the house steps back. The nights in between mean it stays armed, with the sounds of a home that is lived in, so it never looks like nobody has been there for days.
The 1st of the month · the report
You have a cabin in the Catskills and a chalet in the Smoky Mountains as well as the lake house. You have never been to all three in the same month.
What jupyter does. A monthly report for each home tells you how it spent the month, in a few plain lines, and one view shows all your properties at a glance. A Vacation Mode switch turns the Halo dashboard into a host’s view.
“A host should never have to choose between an alarm that scares the guests and no alarm at all.”Temi Akinloye
Where things stand
- What it is
- Vacation Home: protection that follows your booking calendar. Halo Concierge: a welcome for your guests, which you switch on when you want it.
- When
- Limited beta with a small group of hosts from October 2026. Released to everyone in February 2027, in the SecureProtect app.
- Privacy
- It follows the calendar, not the people. No indoor cameras; outdoor cameras record only on detection. Hosts are responsible for disclosing security devices to guests in line with Airbnb’s policies and local law.