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Hi All, (Comfort Newbee)

I think this system is great!!!! and the more I look in to it the better it gets….. Plus the after sales support and user support if fantastic……

Anyway I have a problem I would like to share and to get an expert opinion on.

I have the night mode automatically arm when we go to bed and turn off again before we get up in the morning. However, on the odd occasion the dogs want to go out in the middle of the night and we forget to turn off the alarm (half a sleep)…. This soon walks us and the rest of the neighbourhood up.

So I was wondering what is the best way for the system to realise it is us moving around and either bypass the back door for half an hour or so. I thought if PIR 1 (our bedroom) followed by PIR 2 (Hall) followed by PIR 3 (Kitchen) where triggered within 5 – 10 minutes during night mode either the system was disarmed or the back door was bypassed and then armed again after a similar sequent of detectors are triggered or a time elapses say half an hour.

No idea how I would program that though....

Idea and where to program them all welcome.

Cheer for now.

Lee   

That pain my head

Is it better to use Response 54 - \"Start Entry delay in Night Mode\"

If SecurityMode = NightMode Then
Start EntryDelay
End If

Put that in one of the zones, then it will start entry delay and tell you to disarm alarm

Hi,

Yup.........I can see how that might work so will give it a go....

The only problem is I guess the keypad will start to chime which will wake us up when really all we want to do is zombie downstairs let the dogs out, then zombie back to bed without really waking up or doing anything.

Great start and at least this way it will stop the neighbours being woken up.....

Cheers


Lee

 

 

That  would be just in case you forget to disarm the system and would be simplest


You can also try this programming zone responses for the 3 PIRs

PIR 1 - start a timer PIR1 for x minutes, do Null Response
PIR 2 - If Timer PIR 1 is running, start a Timer PIR2 for x minutes, do Null Response
PIR 3 - If Timer PIR 2 is running, Bypass back door, then start a timer for X minutes to Unbypass the back door

This uses 4 timers

It will bypass the back door for a duration to allow you to get back inside

Hi

That sounds spot on will have a go now. I think a combo of both answers will definatley do what I need.

Thanks All.

Cheers

Lee

Hi

That sounds spot on will have a go now. I think a combo of both answers will definatley do what I need.

Thanks All.

Cheers

Lee

Hi Again,

Sounds spot on, but I can find the start timer option must be there but can\'t see it..... Also one of the PIR in my suggested group should be turning on a night light so how do I include that? This s not working so help would be appreciated here as well (Please see attached).

So please confirm if I do the following under zone/inputs choose the on response  

if night mode <>0

PIR 1 (master bed) - start a timer PIR1 for x minutes, do Null Response

if night mode <>0

PIR 2 (hall) - If Timer PIR 1 is running, start a Timer PIR2 for x minutes...

I Also want this PIR t(hall) to trigger a light between 11pm and 8am which is not working  so help if you can as a  response on under zone/input hall PIR (see attached)

PIR 3 - If Timer PIR 2 is running, Bypass back door, then start a timer for X minutes to Unbypass the back door

Cheers

Lee

Start Timer means \"Do Response after X seconds using Timer N \" just like you have done
Here you just want to start a timer without doing any Response at the end so use

\"Do Response NullResponse after X seconds using Timer N \"


You can test if a Timer is running using the action

\"If Timer N <>0 then ...\"

There is a logical error in your condition

\"If Hours > 23 Then
   If Hours < 8 Then \"

Hours is a value between 0 and 24 so hours cannot be > 23 AND also < 8
In other words, 8 is not greater than 23

You should use an OR combination, not AND as in your construction

eg
If Hours >= 23 Or Hours < 8 Then
    Do ......
End If

Hi ident

Does this look as if it would work?

Cheers

Lee

oh......and would I trigger via master bed on response?