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I had a real situation where I wondered what might have happened.

THe alarm was in vacation mode, and had a program to turn on some lights for 2 hours in the evening.

A sensor tripped and set off the alarm (due to high wind) , so I dialed in and switched to security off, then bypassed the sensor, and switched back to vacation mode.

I did not know if the vacation program would continue  i.e. the lights would have been on, would it continue and then turn them off considering i had changed mode to off then back to vacation?

To be safe, I dialed in again, and used the control menu to turn off the lights. But I just wondered if interuppting the vacation mode would have messed up the program for that night at least?

 

We have never had this question before, but that is a good one
When you disarm and go back into Vacation mode, the Vacation programs will start again, the old ones are ended

Say you have a vacation program which turns on the light at 7 PM to 8 PM and off in 2 to 3 hours
If you disarm and return to Vacation mode at 7:20 PM and the light had been switched on, the vacation program may try to switch on the light again if the randon time is after7:20 PM, and it would switch it iff as scheduled.
If at 7:20 PM the light was not switched on, it would swithc on before 8 PM and switch off as scheduled
Hence it would appear like the vacation mode ws not interrupted

Thanks for that. Is the OFFResponse triggered? as if not, I can see that possibly, with a vacation program of 7pm and 5 hours, and a reset at 9pm - if the vacation offreseponse is not triggered at reset, then the lights could remain on all night. Not a problem, as if that is the case, I will just put a check program that runs at midnight (which I guess I should have anyway, incase the x10 signal does not get through)

No you are correct that the Off response would not be triggered in this case as the vacation program would not have started

Many thanks for the clarification