Hey, DIYers.
I'm Jorge from Alarm Grid.
Today we're going to be going over how to switch partitions
on a Honeywell Vista system.
So a Honeywell Vista systems usually
come with three partitions; partition one, partition two,
and partition three, which is the common partition.
What a partition allows you to do
is independently arm and disarm a certain area
of the alarm system.
So for instance, let's say you have a home, and in the home,
you also have your own office space and everything
like that in a separate room.
You can actually separate that office
into a different partition away from the home.
So you can independently arm the office
and leave the house disarmed, or vice versa.
Arm the home, and leave the office disarmed.
So there's different things that you--
different applications that many people find for partitions,
but just know that it's what allows you to independently
arm and disarm certain areas of the alarm system.
So for instance, right now, just going off
the example that I gave you guys of having
a main home and an office in the house, I actually have this.
Both keypads are on partition one.
And this is actually an alphanumeric keypad.
This is a fixed English keypad.
If you notice, the alphanumeric one actually
shows the name of the partition, which I named specifically
Main Home.
This one is also on partition one,
but since it's fixed English, it does not
show you the partition name or number.
So you have to be careful when you're
using a fixed English keypad.
I would recommend getting two 6160s
if you're going to be using partitions
and having separate keypads for each partition.
The partition is addressed when you address the keypad.
So these two I addressed, and they're both on partition one.
So one little thing about this is,
if you're using one keypad to control multiple partitions,
keep in mind that that keypad has
its own designated partition.
So if you want to use that one keypad to switch partitions,
you have to use the Go To command.
So I'm going to show you guys how to do that right now
in one second.
The Go To command, to do that, you're
going to need the master code, the Go To command,
which is star, and then the partition number.
For me, I'm going to be using two.
So I'm going to go ahead and enter in my master code.
1234*2.
So my default master code is 1234.
Yours could be different, depending
if your monitoring company or yourself, if you've changed it.
You'll see-- as I switch to partition two,
you'll see now it says office in the top left.
This one, I have not switched it to partition two.
So it's not going to show you anything.
But one little caveat, remember, if you're
using one keypad to control multiple partitions,
you use the Go To command.
But once you do the Go To command,
since this one is originally set to partition one,
after 30 seconds of inactivity, it
goes back to the original partition.
So now you're going to see Main Home, which
is what my partition one was named,
because that's what it is.
Now I'm going to show you guys how to independently arm
separate partitions.
What I'm going to show you guys is this one right now
is partition one.
It's Main Home.
I'm going to use this keypad here to go to partition two.
So I'm going to enter in my master code.
1234.
The Go To command, star, and 2.
[BEEPING]
It gives me a beeping confirmation.
So now I have partition one, partition two,
and I have to arm this before 30 seconds,
or else it's going to go back to partition one.
Now, you're going to see I'm going on this one away.
[BEEPING]
And partition two now begins to arm.
Partition one, it still shows disarmed.
Why?
Because I'm independently arming partition two
from the partition one, which is here.
After 30 seconds, this will probably
switch back to partition one.
So you're going to see this armed light is going
to be on for partition two.
Within 30 seconds, it'll switch back to partition one,
and the ready light will come on.
See?
Armed light, because now it's switched back to partition one,
and no longer is in the partition two.
However, if I switch back to partition two,
using whichever keypad.
Watch.
I'll even use this keypad.
1234*2.
It was actually still arming.
It was still giving me that exit delay, because the exit delay
is longer than 30 seconds.
So remember, after 30 seconds of inactivity,
it goes back to the original one.
The exit delay for this must have been 45 or 60 seconds.
So now you'll see this one is in partition two,
and it shows armed.
This one now I have it to partition one.
I'm going to switch back just to partition one.
And now I'm on the Main Home.
So right now my office is armed.
Correct?
I'm going to show you guys the common partition.
Now, this is where things start getting
a little interesting, right?
So let's say your partition one is disarmed.
Partition two is armed away.
Partition three, the common partition,
is going to be disarmed.
So now I'm in partition three, the common partition,
and it's disarmed.
Now, what happens if I arm partition one to away now?
So now I'm in partition one.
You'll see Main Home.
I'm going to arm it away.
Once this one goes into an arm away,
my partition three, which is the common partition,
will also be armed away now.
You'll see here.
You see my partition three?
You can't really see it on this one,
because it's fixed English, and it doesn't show you
the partition we're on.
But I'll show you this one here.
1234*3.
And partition three will show armed away.
And now it's switched back to partition one.
So we're just waiting for those exit delays to go down to zero.
[BEEPING]
There we go.
Now we have partition one armed away, partition two armed away.
So because both partitions now are set to arm away,
that makes the common partition also set to arm away.
Again, I'm going to show you.
I'm going to enter in the master code.
1234, Go To, star, and then 3.
And you'll see armed away.
It's still showing me System Low Battery.
That's just my troubles.
So I'm going to go ahead and arm--
I'm going to disarm just my partition one.
So I'm going to do the Go To 1.
And I'm just going to disarm partition one.
So my Main Home now is disarmed.
And if I go to partition two, that one is still armed away.
So armed away.
Good.
Now, I'm going to go back to my partition one.
Now, what happens if you have one location armed stay,
the other one armed away?
It's going to go into armed stay.
The common partition will be armed stay, right?
So if you have one partition armed stay and the other one
armed away, the common partition will revert to the armed stay.
There is also a way to set the command
to arm all the partitions.
For that, all you have to do is enter in the master code, 0,
and then the command.
So for instance, if I wanted to disarm all the partitions--
notice how neither of these are on partition two--
I can still disarm every partition
by hitting the master code, 0, 1.
It will disarm my Main Home, which was already disarmed.
But remember, the second partition was armed away,
right?
Watch this.
Go To, 2.
Office now.
Office now is showing ready.
Before it was armed.
So you can actually use that 0.
It's going to apply to all the partitions.
Watch.
If I do this one here, 12340 away,
it's going to set all my partitions to arm away.
And again, I can stop it by going what 123401.
Yep.
So as you can see, using the Go To command on one keypad
is doable if that's all you guys have.
It is recommended, however, that you guys
do two keypads, or multiple keypads,
one for each partition you guys have.
There are business systems out there
that do handle more than three partitions.
So just something to keep in mind.
But yeah, if you guys can, make sure you get two keypads.
If you guys only have one, you're
going need to use the Go To command,
which is the star, and then the partition number.
If you guys do have any questions about partitions
or the business systems, do feel free to email us
at support@alarmgrid.com.
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And I'm Jorge.
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