Hey DIYers, I'm Jorge from Alarm Grid.
Today we're going to be going over how
to enable the built in gas break detector on an IQ 2--
Qolsys Panel 2.
This is going to go the same for the IQ 2 plus as well.
So basically, just so you know, IQ 2 and the IQ 2 plus
both come with a built in glass break detector.
What this does is it actively listens
for the sound of glass breaking while the system is armed.
There are some sensitivity settings
that we will need to play around with.
As if you have it on a normal sensitivity,
there have been some personal experiences
where we've seen that any normal sound-- maybe like a clap--
may set it off.
So you want to make sure when we do learn this in--
just that you guys avoid any false alarms--
we try to set it to the lowest sensitivity possible.
If you guys want to keep it on normal, you certainly can.
Again, this is going to vary depending
on where you have it installed, and depending
on every different household.
So the quickest way to enable this glass break detector
in the system is going to be by going into the installer
settings.
So what I do first, I'm going to slide my finger
from the top of the panel down.
I'm going to hit Settings.
That brings up my Settings menu.
I'm then going to go to Advanced Settings,
and I'm going to use my installer code.
My default installer code-- because the panel
is defaulted-- is 1111.
Yours may be different if you have changed it, though.
So I'm going to go Advanced Settings.
Enter in my installer code.
1111.
I'm going to go to Installation in the top left.
And now instead of going to Devices, what you need to do
is actually go to Installer Settings
to enable this built in glass break.
From here, if you scroll all the way down--
well not all the way down, but towards the bottom--
you're going to see one option that
say Panel Glass-- ooh, sorry.
Clicked the wrong one.
It says Panel Glass Break Detector.
Underneath it'll say that it's disabled.
If you just click on it, it'll take you to the zones.
Or it'll take you to the zone information.
So what it does is it grabs the built in glass break ID
and it inserts it into the next available zone.
So if you have zones already learned in,
it's just going to learn it into the next available one.
So the sensor ID, you don't want to touch that.
You want to leave that alone.
Sensor type, if the panel glass breaks.
So we're not going to touch that either.
The sensor group.
This is where we're going to either have it to glass break
away only or glass break.
Now you're going to see one says away only
and the other one says just glass break.
Away only means that the sensor will only be active
while the system is armed away.
This is going to help you prevent false alarms,
because if you do the sensor group 13--
which is the normal glass break--
that means that the sensor will be actively listening
for glass break while not only armed away but armed stay.
So the reason why I recommend not to do the 13--
sensor group 13-- for the built in glass break is
because if you guys do an armed stay,
and you guys are in the house, and you guys--
like I said, the actual built in glass break on this
is very sensitive.
It's not like a normal glass break
that it has the flex guard-- it listens for the actual thump
and then the glass breaking.
This is just a microphone in the panel
listening for the sound of glass breaking.
So any little thing may be able to set it off.
And again, this is just from personal experience.
So we try to leave it as away only as we really only want
to detect glass breaking while you're away from the house.
Especially if you're using the built in glass break.
So one thing you'll notice, if I do away only,
I'm going to have the option of doing sensitivity
level normal or low.
We recommend switching it to low, just to,
again, avoid any false alarms.
Now you'll notice if I do set it to glass
break, the only sensitivity--
because it knows that it may be active in armed
stay-- the only sensitivity level
that it gives you is the low.
So yeah, if you do the normal glass break--
which means it's enabled while the system is armed away
or stay--
it's only going to give you sensitivity level low.
If you do glass break away only--
which is the best way to prevent false alarms--
you can actually toggle between normal and low sensitivities.
And again, we recommend going to low.
The sensor name you can leave as panel glass break.
And then the chime and the voice prompts,
you don't have to worry about those either.
Obviously if you wanted to add chime,
it actually does not give you any options to.
And the voice prompt does not give you
any options for that either.
So chime and voice prompts you will not actually
be able to change.
After you're done doing all of this--
so really the only thing you're going to change is the sensor
group and sensitivity level--
after you're done, you're going to hit Save.
It saves it into my--
I only have one zone in the panel, which is zone one,
and it learns it into that next available zone.
You can either hit the Home key to bring you back
to the main screen, and you'll see this system says disarmed.
One thing I did want to show you guys.
I'm going to go back to that screen.
So pull down, Settings, Advanced Settings.
I enter in the installer code 1111, Installation Installer
Settings, scroll down.
If you guys disable it, all you have to do is just click it.
When you guys enable it again, it
takes you to the default zone settings-- which again, is
set to a way only and normal.
Those are the default settings that it sets it automatically
to.
You can go ahead and Save.
And again, just back out to the home screen.
So I just wanted to show you guys what it actually
defaults it to.
All right.
So now that we've got the internal glass break programmed
in, now we're actually going to go ahead and test it.
So to test this, all we have to do
is slide down from the top to show our menu settings.
We're going to go ahead and hit on Settings.
What you're going to do is go to Advanced Settings.
And you can either entering in your dealer code or installer
code.
So it's either going to be 1111 or 2222.
I'm going to enter in 1111.
Now again, this is because my system is defaulted.
Your codes may be different depending if your company has
changed them or not.
From here we're going to go to System Tests.
After System Tests, you're going to go ahead and go
to Panel Glass Break Test.
Now this will show you the screen.
It'll say it'll have a clap test, glass break simulator
test, and a glass break alarm test mode.
If you want to make sure that it's actually
listening for a clap, you can go ahead and hit Run.
It says that the circle will turn yellow,
indicating that the panel has listened and has heard a clap.
Again, remember, it's very sensitive.
So anything could trigger it.
As you see, I haven't even clapped yet
and the yellow circle is turning on.
Now if I clap, it'll turn yellow.
I can reset it.
And this is just so you guys can see that it's actually
reading the glass break.
So I'm going to hit Run.
I'm going to need to clap and then enable
my glass break sound.
So I'm going to go--
one moment.
[GLASS SHATTERING]
There we go.
So it takes a little bit of tries, but I clapped,
it turned yellow.
As soon as I clapped, then I hit the glass break sound
and it turned green to say that it detected glass break.
Now if you want to test it while the system is armed,
you can go ahead and do the Glass Break Alarm Test Mode.
This is basically going to put--
the test alarm signal is going to go to a central station--
if you guys are being monitored--
and then the glass break detector
will be put into test mode for 15 minutes.
So if I go ahead and hit Start, it
just gives me directions of what I need to do.
So it says I need to arm the panel in away,
I need to activate the glass break simulator.
The panel is going to go into alarm mode
and send a signal to the central station.
And then the panel will exit the test mode after 15 minutes.
After the 15 minute test period has expired.
So I'm going to go hit OK.
Hit the Home button.
I'm on arm my system away.
[BEEPING]
I'm going to open up a door.
Remember, if you do an arm away and you don't open up
a door or an entry exit zone, the system
will go into armed stay.
And depending on how you have the glass break programmed in,
it may not be enabled during an armed stay or an armed away.
So it depends how you program it, which
is what we went over earlier.
So I just got to wait these last 30 seconds.
And it is going to get pretty loud.
So I will try to disarm it as soon as it goes off.
Let me get my glass break sound ready.
OK.
So five seconds left.
Yes.
The system should go into an armed away.
And now I will test the glass break.
So this sound here, I'm using a small MP3 file
that I just had on my phone.
You guys can use--
if you guys just go to YouTube and you type in glass break
sound, you can actually use a video like that and just clap
while the glass break is going off to enable the thump
and then the glass breaks sound-- which
is what's going to enable it.
So if I hit this--
[GLASS SHATTERING]
[LOUD RINGING]
Yeah it's pretty loud.
My ears are ringing.
So it went off, as you saw.
I entered in the default master code, which is 1234.
And yeah, that was the quick way how to program it in
and how to test it.
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My name is Jorge from Alarm Grid,
I'll see you guys next time.
My ear is still ringing.