Re: 5010 Auto Arming

["Jim" <alarminex@xxxxxxx>]

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.