Hey DIYers, I'm George from Alarm Grid.
Today, I'm going to show you how to set the siren timeout
on a Simon XTi or XTi-5.
Here, I actually have the Simon XTi,
and the Simon XTi-5 is the same panel, except it just
has a slightly larger screen.
So, anything I say for this panel
is going to also apply to your Simon XTi-5
The siren timeout is what dictates
how long the siren is going to sound when an alarm goes off.
The siren timeout on the Simon XTi and the XTi-5
can go anywhere from two minutes to 254 minutes.
You also want to check with your ordinance.
There are some places that only allow a siren to go off
for a couple of minutes.
You want to make sure that before you set your siren
timeout, you check in with the ordinance of your city
or county, and you make sure that the siren
timeout is set correctly, because you
don't want to go over.
Some ordinances have four minutes, five minutes,
again it all could depend.
They do have strict rules on siren timeout.
So you want to make sure that you adjust it accordingly.
I'm going to show you guys how to do that right now.
The first thing we need to do is get into the programming
on the Simon XTi.
To do that, I'm going to go ahead and hit the little gear
icon in the bottom right, I'm going
to hit the down arrow key all the way,
and I'm going to hit programming.
After I hit programming, I'm going
to enter in my dealer code or installer code--
Sorry, if you don't do it fast enough it times out.
You want to hit the down arrow key all over again.
Programming.
My default code is four three two one,
that's because I have not changed it.
Yours may be different if your monitoring company or yourself
have changed it, so make sure you guys use the correct one.
After you get into programming, you guys
should see timers to the left hand side, the third one down.
After you hit timers, you're going to hit the down arrow key
and it just goes down to the last page.
You should see siren timeout.
Right now, I have it set to two minutes.
You can go up.
Remember, you can't go lower than two minutes,
and you can't go higher than two minutes and 54.
If you try to type in 255 it'll go there.
If you hit Save--
If you go again, it's just going to leave it at off.
If you go over 254 or below two minutes,
it's just going to set it as off.
What off means is it's going to sound indefinitely
until someone either disarms the system--
which means you have to enter in the correct code--
or powers the system down.
But the siren won't actually stop ringing.
If it sets off, it'll keep going off indefinitely.
The way to stop a siren is--
there's three ways.
You can either disarm the system using the correct user code.
There's powering down the system completely,
so you have to unplug it from the wall
and remove the backup battery.
Or the very last one, if you actually do have a timer set
on it, you can wait out the three minutes, four minutes,
five minutes-- whatever your siren timeout is,
you can wait it out until the siren stops --
or until the siren stops blaring.
You want to make sure that if you set it to off,
understand that means it's indefinite, which
means you're going to have to disarm it or power
the system down.
You want to make sure that you set an actual number in there,
anywhere from two minutes to 254.
After you've set that, you can just
hit close in the top right.
I'm going actually quickly set mine to two.
Hit save on the top right.
Then, I'm just going to hit close,
and I'm just going to back out to my main screen.
I've now set my siren timeout to two minutes, which
means if the alarm goes off, the siren
will start going off for two minutes.
Then, after the two minutes, it will automatically stop.
If you guys do have any questions about the siren
timeouts, or your ordinances, or about monitoring,
feel free to email us that support@alarmgrid.com.
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I'm George.
I'll see you guys next time.