03-05-2015, 05:12 PM
Firstly I should say that I am not a professional installer but I have just finished installing a Comfort Ultra 2 system into a house that we moved into a couple of years ago, having been so pleased with the one that I installed in our old house. It is really a very impressive system and the newer versions of Comfigurator make programming much easier than I remember it being the first time round!
That having been said, I am struggling to achieve something that I think should be very simple. I know that this has been discussed elsewhere on the board before but none of the potential solutions seem to work.
The problem.
When I installed the latest system I only used a single keypad - next to the alarm cupboard. This works fine but if the system is triggered at night we don\'t hear the external sounder very well and the keypad is almost inaudible upstairs. In the longer term I plan to install keypads upstairs, but in the meantime the goal was to increase the volume of the internal alarm. To do this I installed a speaker which I duly connected to the appropriate terminals on the mainboard.
This certainly works for the intruder alarm - it is very loud. The problem is that arming and trouble tones are now also heard over the speaker - very loudly even when I reduce the gain on the on board potentiometer. This means that if one of us is up late and arms the system before we go upstairs the arming tones wake the entire family.
The issue here seems to be that Comfort uses the same sound for an entry and exit alert delay, which we want from the speakers in day and vacation modes, as it uses for night mode. I know this sounds picky, but is seems to me understandable that a mode that is designed to be armed at night, when other members of the family are likely to be asleep, should have an easy option for muting the warning tones and announcements, to save waking everyone up.
If there is such a simple solution I have not been able to find it and so I would be very grateful if anyone can tell me how this is best achieved! At the moment, after frequent complaints from my wife, I have had to disconnect the speaker entirely, which is not a great solution long term as it means we might sleep through a proper intruder alert.
I guess this is a small issue in the grand scheme of things when you consider that I have a security system that I can access by SMS, calls me if there is trouble or an intruder, integrates with my X10 lights and can be triggered by my Zwave PIR\'s!
Anyway, any help with this would be much appreciated.
That having been said, I am struggling to achieve something that I think should be very simple. I know that this has been discussed elsewhere on the board before but none of the potential solutions seem to work.
The problem.
When I installed the latest system I only used a single keypad - next to the alarm cupboard. This works fine but if the system is triggered at night we don\'t hear the external sounder very well and the keypad is almost inaudible upstairs. In the longer term I plan to install keypads upstairs, but in the meantime the goal was to increase the volume of the internal alarm. To do this I installed a speaker which I duly connected to the appropriate terminals on the mainboard.
This certainly works for the intruder alarm - it is very loud. The problem is that arming and trouble tones are now also heard over the speaker - very loudly even when I reduce the gain on the on board potentiometer. This means that if one of us is up late and arms the system before we go upstairs the arming tones wake the entire family.
The issue here seems to be that Comfort uses the same sound for an entry and exit alert delay, which we want from the speakers in day and vacation modes, as it uses for night mode. I know this sounds picky, but is seems to me understandable that a mode that is designed to be armed at night, when other members of the family are likely to be asleep, should have an easy option for muting the warning tones and announcements, to save waking everyone up.
If there is such a simple solution I have not been able to find it and so I would be very grateful if anyone can tell me how this is best achieved! At the moment, after frequent complaints from my wife, I have had to disconnect the speaker entirely, which is not a great solution long term as it means we might sleep through a proper intruder alert.
I guess this is a small issue in the grand scheme of things when you consider that I have a security system that I can access by SMS, calls me if there is trouble or an intruder, integrates with my X10 lights and can be triggered by my Zwave PIR\'s!
Anyway, any help with this would be much appreciated.