Night Mode

[NickG]

I have two night mode issues on an installation:

1. Customer wants to arm silently into night mode, i.e. no beeps through the internal speakers, night mode announcement on the keypads is fine however.
2. I am trying to get an internal alarm only (internal speakers and keypads only, no external bell box) when triggered when the system is armed to night mode.

I am at a loss to work out how to do either of these things?

For the 2nd problem I have set the night column to perimeter for the PIRNightAway zone type but it has made no difference, the outside bell boxes still sound when the alarm is trigered in night mode.

Thanks for your help

Nick

[palmlodge]

I do this :

 

In the KeyArmNight response :

If SecurityMode <> AwayMode Then
    KeySwitchArm NightMode
    Keypad 1 Broadcast Disable
End If


 

In the SecurityOffResp :

Keypad 1 Broadcast Enable

[slychiu]

Thats an ingenious solution to disable the armed siren on the keypad. However note that when the keypad broadcast is disabled, the siren and announcements will not be heard on the keypad

For your first problem, If you want to disable the speaker in Night arming, you can also go to Security Types > Siren Types, under Night Armed (Siren type 16), set the Sound Type to Null. This means night arming will be completely silent

[palmlodge]

This \'ingenous solution\' was from you on the 24th August 2005

 

I already have the siren type as quiet. but it doesnt stop the mad comedy woman sprouting out \"night mode\" , hence disabling the keypad completely.

It\'s a nut cracker to crack an egg solution

[NickG]

Thanks for for advice on makinig the speaker silent I\'ll give that a go.

Any ideas on stoping the bell box from sounding if the alarm is triggerred when in Night Mode, they have a dog and whilst we have used Pet Immune detectors he can sometimes set it off at night time and they don\'t want ot wake the neighbours!

Thanks

Nick

[slychiu]

Try the response below;


If  SecurityMode = NightMode Then
    Do BellOff [Bell Off] After 1 Seconds Using Timer01
End If

Use this in the Intruder Alarm Rresponse

When an alarm occurs, the Response will check the security mode, if Night, it will turn OFF the BELL after 1 second

the delay timer is necessary because the Alarm Response may be started before the alarm siren.

Since this affects the alarm operations, I have to warn you to test thoroughly before you adopt this method and not treat this suggestion as firm advice (so that we dont get sued)

[NickG]

Hmm, tried your suggestion for silent night arming, but I don\'t have \'null\' as an option when you bring up the drop down box on the sound type column ....

Help!

[slychiu]

You are right, there is no Null Sound Type. I got mixed up with Null siren

What you can do is on Siren Type 16, set the duration to very short, say 0.05 seconds which is the smallest duration allowed, set Keypad in that line to NO, so the sound does not go to the keypad. You will end up with a very short burst on the internal speaker which you may not hear
Change the sound type to an unsued one say \"Alternate Beep\", then go to Sound Types, and change the parameters for Alternate Beep - set Tone 1 Frequency to 150 Hz, as a lowe frequency will be less audible

It may not be completely silent but should be pretty quiet

[jon_itmagic]

I have exactly the same issue, but dispite following the advice in this topic, I\'ve been unable to suppress the beeps from the keypad when arming to night mode.

As per advice, I\'ve modified Security Type Settings | Siren Types | NightArmed :
Duration = 0.1
Keypad = No

I\'ve also tried amending the Sound Type to an unused siren type and changing those settings, without luck.

Please could someone offer some easy to follow instructions on how to suppress these beeps in night mode... To cut a long story short, my installer did a disasterous job at installing Comfort. After numerous false alarms (which I finally traced back to poor wiring inside the panel), I have had to re-wire the unit and am now in the process of re-configuring.

Any help appreciated.

Many thanks,
Jon

[hendy]

A similar issue discussed before in other thread, see:

http://www.comfortforums.com/forum16/425.html