2nd Alarm Scene

[MaTi 29]

Hi all,

 

I have been trying to achieve something which maybe is possible, or maybe isn't. If it is, I would like your advise..

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I have an ipad hanging on the wall in my living room. Whenever I go to sleep/outside I use this to turn on the alarm.

This works like a charm.

 

In order to come to a workable situation, I have excluded my FIbaro motion sensor located in the hall upstairs from the alarm.

This because when I am home and I need, for instance, go to the bathroom, I will pass this sensor and it will be breached. Not really a situation where the alarm should go off

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However, ideally I would like this sensor to be included as well (and some others, but just this one now to use as an example) in case I have left the house completely.

 

Ideally, I would like to have 2 alarm 'scenes' (or whatever you call it) on the main page of my ipad app. One to select when I go to sleep (ignoring states of the sensor upstairs) and one when I leave the house (all armed with a delay of 60ish seconds). Is there a good way to achieve this? I have thought about working with scenes for this, but the switch I am currently using on my ipad isn't a scene.. It's from the alarm module in the HC2. (or does making scenes where you set specific devices to ARMED with a specified delay result into the very same result as enabling the alarm module as I am doing now, when you turn on the scene?)

 

Any help or advise is highly appreciated! Thanks

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[Acho 2]

Create 2 scenes

1, Arming the selected sensors when youre at home

2, Arming all the sensors when you are out

[MaTi 29]

Thanks for your reply.

Can you please confirm that arming a device through a script has ultimately the same result as switching on the alarm through the default FIbaro Alarm module?

Thanks

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[Acho 2]

Im running it like that for more than a year - no issue

[anu 0]

Other controller have modes for this like:

- Home (All unarmed)

- Away (All armed)

- Sleep (All except bedroom)

 

It would be nice if Fibaro implement these modes too.

[MaTi 29]

Thanks Acho!

 

And I agree with Anu.. +1

Ideally you'd be able to make 'Alarm Scenes', where you can specify which devices to arm and specify per scene, what will happen in case of a breach.

[Acho 2]

You can do it allready now... Exclude the sensors from alarm panel and create scenes to be executed in case of some of them will be breached- and you can have ss meny/scenes/actions as you want...

[MaTi 29]

Not really..

I can imagine there are scenes you'd like to start in case of a breach while you are home and not while you are out or vice versa..

[rboshuis 10]

Not really..

I can imagine there are scenes you'd like to start in case of a breach while you are home and not while you are out or vice versa..

 

I use three different scenes to arm the different sensors.

 

1) Doors & Motion, when everyone is out of the house

2) Doors only, when we are out of the house, but the dogs are still in

3) All, except the upstairs motion sensor, when everyone is upstairs.

Each one of these sets a global variable to 1,2 or 3 respectively.

 

I use the global variable which tells me why 'type' of alarm. During the alarm scene, I check what type of alarm and whether the outside alarm needs to be triggered as well.

 

I am not using the standard alarm panel at all.....

[alandee 79]

I use the standard panel for my alarm when no one is home, i have perimeter arming set up in a scene ..they work a treat.  I have perimeter / yard arming set up on a triple click of the bedroom light when we go to bed, similar concept to the very bottom of this page :

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Cheers,

al.