Re: 5010 Auto Arming

["Crash Gordon" <webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I've used it for security cages, you know like a Costco where they have a
cage for the high ticket items. Make it auto arm if it's not armed at a
certain time...area or partition of the main system.


"Jim" <alarminex@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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|
| 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.
|