Re: 5010 Auto Arming

[Kevin <Spiritbranson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Frank Olson <Use_the_email_links@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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Auto Arm only Arms in Away Mode. It's actually supposed to be used in the
event you leave the house and forget to arm.

> 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.