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Hi, DIYers.
This Is Michael from Alarm Grid, and today, I'm
going to explain how you can use the Honeywell SiXCOMBO
combination smoke, heat, and carbon monoxide sensor
for only smoke or only heat detection.
So like I said, the SiXCOMBO, it's a combination sensor.
It offers three main detection functions, smoke, heat,
and carbon monoxide.
Now, when you go into the programming for the SiXCOMBO,
you'll see that each of those three functions
are listed individually, and you can actually
toggle them on or off.
So why would you want to do this?
So there are certain cases, certain areas
of a home or business, where it might make sense
to turn off smoke detection, for instance,
or it might make sense to turn off heat detection.
In most cases, you want to have all functions enabled
so that way it's more likely to detect an emergency.
By having both smoke and heat enabled,
the sensor can respond to a fire more quickly and more
accurately, and carbon monoxide, of course, you
want to have that enabled, because carbon monoxide is
very dangerous.
But if there was an area where it made sense to turn it off.
For example, if you had a kitchen,
and someone frequently burns the stir fry,
then you might want to turn off smoke detection,
because the smoke from the burnt food could activate the sensor
and trigger a false alarm on your system.
So in that case, you might say, hey, for this area only,
we're going to turn off smoke detection,
but we'll still have heat detection,
because if there's an extremely high temperature, that
would only be found in a fire, then burnt food's not going
to cause that by the sensor.
So you could still have heat detection and carbon monoxide
detection, but you won't have smoke detection.
Another area that you have a sense, a smoke detector,
a SiXCOMBO or a SiXCOMBO in your bathroom.
And the humidity from the shower, bathroom activities,
then it can trigger a false alarm, potentially,
for the smoke detector.
That's just something that could happen.
So in that area, again, you might keep heat on,
put smoke off.
Maybe you have a furnace room, and it's very hot in that room
because the furnace is running, and maybe it's
a cramped furnace room or something
and you know that the temperature could theoretically
get above 135 degrees.
It could.
And you know that having a heat detection enabled
could trigger a false alarm on your system,
but you're not going to have a false alarm due to smoke
in that area, so you might have smoke detection and not
heat detection.
So you can toggle these on and off individually.
Those are just some examples.
Often, it's a good idea to turn off smoke detection
in a garage or an attic, because those are our dusty areas
and those could potentially trigger false alarms.
I use to live in Arizona, actually,
and it would get up to around 125 degrees, believe it or not,
and so maybe in that area I would turn off heat detection.
It's just an example there.
So if you want to toggle these on and off,
you have the option to do so.
Remember that each of these functions
will use its own zone on the Lyric system.
So by turning one of these functions off,
you can save a zone on your lyrics,
so that's another benefit.
But anyway, so that that's just an overview of what you can do.
But let's get into it.
So we have our SiXCOMBO already enrolled with our Lyric system.
We're at the main screen of our Lyric right
here, with a nice security menu in the upper left corner,
and we're going to choose that button right there,
and then we're going to choose tools.
And we're going to enter in our installer code, which
is at the default of 4112, and we're going to choose Program.
I'm going to press the down arrow,
and we're going to choose SiXCOMBO Programming.
And then we have our six smoke/CO sensor right there.
That's the one we're going to be working with today.
Just to show you how we can do this.
So we can press the button right here, the zone.
The sensor, I mean.
The six sensor, and it's highlighted blue,
and then we press Edit down here in the bottom left corner.
And you see we get to this programming screen,
where we can configure various settings for the SiXCOMBO
device.
Now, let's say I want to turn off smoke.
We could press the button right there,
and you see that the option goes away.
We no longer have the option to do alarm report
or verify function, because we have
turned off smoke detection.
When it's gray, it's off, and when it's green, it's on.
So right now, we have heat detection
and we have carbon monoxide detection,
but we don't have smoke detection.
If we want to turn it back on, we can press the button again,
and you see it turns back green.
We do want to keep our report enabled for anyone that's
turned on, because that's how the system sends
a signal to alarm net so that way,
it can be forwarded to the central station and/or the end
user, via text and/or email, depending on their monitoring
plan.
So in most cases, these are live safety sensors
you will most certainly want to have alarm report on.
There is a verify option where it
has to detect smoke twice within a certain period of time
in order to activate.
That's a false alarm prevention function,
which you can choose to use.
We have other information of that on our website,
but all of these you can turn on or off.
Like say we didn't want carbon monoxide detection for whatever
reason, we could turn that off.
If we didn't want heat detection,
we can turn that off as well.
Now, it's just a smoke detector and now we
turn off smoke detection, and now
we have a sensor that's doing absolutely nothing.
So it's not using any zones on the system.
But we do want ours on.
Right now, we have them all off, so let's turn them back on.
We press the button, we have smoke detection.
We press the button, we have heat detection,
and we press the button, and now we
have carbon monoxide detection and we have all of ours
enabled.
You can turn those on or off as you please.
Remember to press the Save button in the bottom right
corner so that way it saves the changes.
If you don't press the Save button,
then you won't apply the changes,
and it looks like we have one go all go off here.
We want that on so that, all of the other SiXCOMBO and six
smoke devices on the system will activate.
So we have ours set up the way that we want.
Everything's on, smoke, heat, CO, and one-go-all-go.
We're going to save, and that's how
you can make the changes there.
So that's how you can use the SiXCOMBO
for only smoke or only heat.
If you turn off the other functions,
then it will only do the function that you keep enabled.
So you can set those up however you want.
So if you have any questions about the SiXCOMBO
or the Honeywell Lyric alarm system,
send an email to support@alarmgrid.com.
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