Hey DIYers, Jorge here at Alarm Grid.
Today we're going to be going over
how to control your alarm system using Total Connect
and how to bypass sensors.
So today I'm going to be working with an iPad.
Yes, I have the Total Connect application.
If you have a different smartphone--
an Android, or iOS, or if you're using a phone, or the website--
they're a little different.
But they still have the same functions and the same screens
that you will need to find.
So starting off, I'm going to go ahead and open up
my application Total Connect 2.0.
Once you do open up the app, it will ask you
for your username and your password.
You want to make sure that you put
that information in correctly.
If you have forgotten it, there is a forgot password on there
that you can actually use.
Or you can contact your monitoring company
and they should be able to push that through over to you
as well.
So I'm going to open up the application,
and it takes me to my main screen.
I have the L7000 today is what we're going to be working with.
You can see it up on the wall.
We have one motion detector learned into it.
That's the one that we're going to be bypassing.
And I'm going to go over that, how to do that real quick.
So when you first log in, it's going to take you
to your main screen.
The main screen is going to have the panel status.
It's going to have arm away, arm stay.
It's going to have your weather forecast
if you have that enabled.
And it'll show you your events at the very top,
or at the very bottom, depending what device you're using.
So to start off, you'll see that the system says disarmed.
You can actually arm away or arm stay using the app.
As long as the user codes are synced,
that should be able to arm the system no problem at all.
So I'm going to go ahead and do an arm away.
And you're going to see on the L7000,
it's going to start arming away.
It's going to start arming, it's going
to take a little bit for the connection to go through.
The signals need to go from Total Connect, to Alarm Net,
back to the panel.
Yeah, so now you're going to see the L7000 is arming away.
It gives you your exit delay.
You can actually disarm it just by using the application.
I'm going to go ahead and hit disarm.
And you're going to see the panel will go back
into a ready to arm state.
It will say disarming, the panel stops
beeping, the exit delay and the panel now shows ready to arm.
Again, arm stay would work the same way.
Now, if you guys want to bypass sensors,
all you need to do is you see on the main screen,
to the left-hand side, there is going
to be a Sensors button on that green bar.
Once I hit Sensors, it's going to bring up every sensor that I
have learned into the panel.
Now if you have some sensors learned in as resident monitor,
garage monitor, or some other device type that is not
interior follower, or door window contact,
those will not be able to be bypassed.
So if you see here, it will have my zone number.
I have the motion learned into zone 2 on the left-hand side,
and it'll show the description what I have.
It'll say motion, motion sensor.
I didn't describe it right, I just
wanted to have it programmed in.
I'm going to go ahead and check it.
So you'll the blue circle to the right-hand side--
it'll turn into a check mark.
And then if you look at the bottom right,
you'll see that there's a bypass option.
Once I hit bypass, it will send the request down
through Total Connect, and then it'll
confirm once the sensor has been bypassed.
Just hit OK to confirm.
And then we're just going to go ahead and hit the Back to go
back to the main screen.
Now, if you wanted to make sure that the sensor was bypassed,
you can go to the events.
And you'll see on today's events,
it'll say sensor 2, the motion sensor, has been bypassed.
Now, if I do an arm away or arm stay,
you're going to see that there is
a bypass now underneath those.
That's letting you know that there
is a sensor that's bypassed before you hit arm away
or arm stay.
That is important for the users to know
because if you do have a sensor bypassed, keep in mind,
this sensor will not be active while the system is
in an armed state.
So that means if you bypass your front door,
and someone breaks in through that front door
while the system is armed, then there's
no alarm that's going to be going off
because the front door is bypassed.
The system basically ignores any signals
coming from that sensor.
So once I do an arm away, it starts arming.
And then I can simply do a disarm and cancel it.
Now, after it's canceled, you'll see that it's
going to clear the bypass.
Now you see on my app it'll say arm away,
arm stay-- it no longer has a bypass underneath.
That means that there's no sensors bypassed
and the bypass has been cleared.
Whenever you guys disarm the system,
or whenever you guys enter in the master code
and clear the system--
if you're on a wired panel and you
enter in your master code and then 1, or a standard user code
and you hit 1-- if there's any disarm that's done,
that bypassed sensor will no longer be bypassed.
So if you want to do it again, you're
going to need to go back into sensors and bypass the sensor
the same way we did in the very beginning.
Now, if you have more sensors, you can check multiple sensors
and bypass all of them.
Again, that's completely up to the end user.
And that's the arm away, arm stay.
And here I have a down arrow key--
I have an arm night stay.
Arm night stay, if you guys don't already know,
just a quick overview.
Arm night stay is if you have motions that you want enabled
during an arm stay, you just have
to make sure that you enable those in the zone programming
during arm night.
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Again, my name was Jorge from Alarm Grid.
I'll see you guys next time.