Hi, DIY-ers.
Sterling with Alarm Grade here.
And today we're going to show you
a great feature on the Honeywell Lyric
that wasn't available on the Honeywell Lynx Touch,
and that's the burglary alarm sounder option.
All right, so if we use our installer code
programming, Tools, 4, 1, 1, 2, we can get into programming.
This system is not yet associated
for any kind of monitoring services,
so because Honeywell Lyric is really a system best used
with alarm monitoring through an AlarmNet provider,
it always wants to associate with an account.
Just ignore these screens for these purposes.
Has nothing to do with the video we're showing you here,
just because we haven't yet associated
is why we're getting that prompts.
All right, now that we're in programming,
you'll notice this screen, if you're
at all familiar with the Lynx touch
system is very, very similar--
a little bigger, so you have the fifth row
without having to toggle down, but Sounder is an option.
And within Sounder you have a couple of options.
How long will the sounder go into alarm mode
when there's an alarm before it times out?
Do you want the system to make a loud beep when
you use your key fob so you know it's armed,
and that's the arm confirmed?
This burglary alarm sound option is a new one.
And I should say it's sort of-- well,
it's been there on the Lynx Touch,
but it never really did anything.
Now it's there and it actually does something.
On the Lynx Touch, if you've ever
selected that no, because you wanted the panel
not to make a loud noise--
whether it's because you're testing the system
or because you've installed the system in a spot
where you don't want an intruder to hear the siren
and know where the system is--
of course, the system supports advanced protection logic,
which will protect for that kind of break-in,
but if you're not monitored maybe you wanted to protect it
by turning the siren off--
on the Lynx Touch there was no way to do it.
This burglar alarm sound, even set to no,
it made a similar sound--
slightly different pitch and tone,
but still a very loud siren.
So it was a confusing feature.
A lot of people thought and assumed--
even we did, when we first got the Lynx Touches
many years ago--
that by selecting that to be no, you're saying
don't have the alarm go off.
They finally-- I don't know if it was a bad feature
on the Lynx Touch or a thing they reworked because there was
some confusion, but now on the Lyric when you select this
to no and save it and exit the Home screen--
[BEEPING]
--aside from any volume selection,
which we've shown you in another video, is selectable by here,
and that only affects the voice and the feedback
tones and the chimes.
That burglary alarm sound literally
turns off the internal siren for the system.
On a Lynx Touch the only way to do it
was to disconnect the physical siren internally in the panel,
and then you would lose the voice
and the chime and all the rest.
With the Lyric, you actually can turn off the internal sounder
and still have it give you the feedback, the button presses,
and the voice enunciations.
However, when you put it into a full alarm mode,
you don't hear the loud, piercing siren.
You hear a more limited siren.
And we're going to show you that.
[TONE]
So we put it into a panic mode.
This is an audible alarm panic.
You can hear how quiet that is.
That's because we have our burglary alarm
sounder set to no.
If we disarm--
Disarmed.
Not ready to arm.
You can hear, panel's still speaking to us,
still giving us feedback.
If we were to hold the panic button
and set off the fire alarm--
[BEEPING]
You can hear, instead of the steady burglary sounder,
you have the temporal pulse three,
which is the industry standard for fire,
the beep beep beep with a pause, and then a repeat.
But you can here again that it's very, very quiet.
Fire alarm.
Fire emergency.
[BEEPING]
And when disarming--
Disarmed.
Ready to arm.
--if we jump back into programming,
we have to disarm--
see this alarm cancel message at the top?
We have to hit the Home button twice.
Disarmed.
Ready to arm.
Do one more disarm, which will clear the latched alarm cancel
messages, and now we can access Tools.
So when we do 4112 and we click Save,
we acknowledge the AlarmNet 360 side, what
we're going to do is go back in, re-enable the burglary alarm
sounder, which turns the internal siren back on,
and we'll go ahead and set off those two panics one more time
so you can hear the difference.
So now we select it to yes, make sure to save it.
And again through sounder level of programming.
And now if we press and hold the panic,
we'll do the local alarm first.
[LOUD TONE]
Much louder.
Disarm, disarm twice to clear it,
and if we try again on the fire.
[LOUD BEEPING]
Temporal pulsing, but still very loud.
Disarm twice, which clears our alarm cancel message
and that shows you how, whether it's for testing purposes--
if you're doing your full installation
and you want to go around and activate your zones
and you don't want to scare your neighbors
or have everyone in the house have to deal with that sounder,
you can temporarily turn it off, or if you have any reason
to feel like you want to hide the panel
and not have it go into that full loud alarm noise,
instead of having to internally disconnect anything
like you would on the Lynx Touch,
the Lyric actually lets you programmatically
change that through the sounder burglary alarm sound option.
So we hope that's a helpful feature.
We certainly think it's an improvement over the Lynx
Touch.
And we get that question a lot on the Lynx Touch,
is how do I turn my siren off?
And it used to be, well, there's this kind of funny feature
that you would think does it but doesn't actually do it.
Now that funny feature has been turned
into a true feature that actually turns off
the internal sounder.
So we think that's a big improvement on the Honeywell
Lyric, and a great job by Honeywell
to give some added functionality that, whether you're
testing or hiding the panel, would be a really good feature
to use.
So we hope you've enjoyed this video on turning off the alarm
sounder in your Lyric panel.
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