Re: 5010 Auto Arming


Frank Olson wrote:
> shady wrote:
> > Just curious to see if a 5010 can be auto armed to stay mode.
> >
> > I don't see anything in the manuals about choosing away or stay, but it
> > would seem like a natural concept for auto arming. (ie: auto stay arm at
> > midnight for residential applications)
> >
> >
>
>
> Dunno. You would think that any zone programmed as "stay" would bypass
> automatically (unless you opened the entry door during the exit delay).
> The thing that would drive me nuts would be the bedroom keypad beeping
> the "auto arm" warning at you (particularly if you were already fast
> asleep).
>
> It might not be such a good thing to do. You may have forgotten to
> close the dining room window and your system may not arm, or if it does,
> you'll have an unprotected entry point and no active motion detector.
> Either way, you'd be vulnerable and would have lost the benefit of even
> the system's "stay" mode.

I never use the auto arm feature but I've run across systems that do.
They usually have activated auto bypass to at least allow the system to
partially arm.

I could never understand who would ever want to use this function.
Residential or commercial.

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Relevant Pages

  • Re: 5010 Auto Arming
    ... Auto Arm only Arms in Away Mode. ... > shady wrote: ... > bypass automatically (unless you opened the entry door during the exit ...
    (alt.security.alarms)
  • Re: 5010 Auto Arming
    ... would seem like a natural concept for auto arming. ... automatically (unless you opened the entry door during the exit delay). ... The thing that would drive me nuts would be the bedroom keypad beeping the "auto arm" warning at you. ...
    (alt.security.alarms)
  • Re: 5010 Auto Arming
    ... I don't see anything in the manuals about choosing away or stay, but it would seem like a natural concept for auto arming. ... You would think that any zone programmed as "stay" would bypass automatically (unless you opened the entry door during the exit delay). ... The thing that would drive me nuts would be the bedroom keypad beeping the "auto arm" warning at you. ...
    (alt.security.alarms)