Re: 5010 Auto Arming

[Devin <youdontneedit@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jim wrote:
> 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.
>
Store owners with lazy/stupid employees. dealt with a few break ins
saying the system didnt work. And low and behold no arming the night
before. so there are a few uses.