Re: Vista 20 and IR motion problem

[Frank Olson <use_the_email_links@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Robert L Bass wrote:
> "Nomen Nescio" <nobody@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:678193af82d7890f02035ceaf91e960e@xxxxxxxxxxxx
>> You are giving two different ways to do this, one of which disarms the
>> system automatically, and one of which only shunts the downstairs IR
>> zones.
>> The zone shunting version I think I'd need to see drawn out, I don't
>> entirely follow that from your description.  However, I see one big
>> problem
>> with the automatic disarming version, if I understand you correctly:
>>
>> Burglar trips downstairs motion.  Alarm sounds.  Burglar heads upstairs,
>> crossing the arm/disarm motion along the way, and disarms the system.
>> Alarm stops.  Maybe even sends in a cancel signal.
>
> Thanks.  As I said earlier, I may have left out a detail or two.  :^)
>
> When the system is in an alarm state the motion near the top of the
> stairs is shunted out by yet another relay.
>
>> And if I understand this correctly, under normal conditions the system
>> does
>> not rearm itself when the user heads back upstairs.  That would be a
>> drawback for a sleepy homeowner who heads downstairs at night, and
>> remains
>> unprotected from then on.
>
> The button at eye level does that in one arrangement. The others had to
> rearm at the bedroom keypad.  I considered auto-arming on motion in the
> stairwell (i.e., when the homeowner ascends the stairs) but that would
> cause problems if someone simply went upstairs while others were still
> downstairs during the day.
>


This "system" of yours is a lot like your kludge site, Bass.  Confusing,
difficult to navigate, and full of ill-conceived ideas and misdirection.
  You're some piece of work.

Next you'll be telling us that you managed to program a Napco keypad
"ready screen" to display:  "Attention Burglar! Go ahead, make my day!".

Oh....  I now recall that you did that already.