Hey, DIY'ers.
I'm Jorge at Alarm Grid.
Today we're going to be going over whether or not
you can use the lyric Home controller without monitoring.
Now, the Lyric controller is Honeywell's latest
all-in-one system.
It does have Wi-Fi and Z-Wave built in.
To answer your question simply, yes, you can use a Lyric home
controller without monitoring.
It has an 85 decibel sounder integrated into it,
which means that if an alarm goes off,
that siren will go off.
Now what this means is that if you don't have it monitored,
only whoever is on site or within range
that can hear the sounder--
the actual alarm siren-- going off
and the panel will be the only ones that
get notified, since there is no one being remotely notified,
because you don't have monitoring.
Now this system, you do have the options
of getting it monitored.
However if you want to use it without monitoring,
you can certainly do so.
They have an app called My Home Controller, which
you can actually find in your Play Store, in your app store,
whether it's Android or iOS.
All right?
Now the app.
If you have a smartphone or a tablet,
you can actually find it in the app store like I said.
Now what the app does is as long as you have it connected
to the same Wi-Fi network that the Lyric is on--
remember it has to be on the same network or else
these two won't work with each other.
When you download the app, it's called My Home Controller.
You download it.
Now I already have it set up, but when you go to download it
it's going to give you a list of steps.
Mine automatically links to it because it already knows,
but when you first download it, it's
going to give you four steps.
The first one is going to do is going
to have you pair it to the Wi-Fi.
Then it's going to have you enter in a code
that you see on the Lyric, just to kind
of shake hands with the Lyric.
Now this app will emulate the same screen
that the Lyric is on.
Now with the app, you can actually arm, disarm,
you can do everything that you virtually
can do on the Lyric on the application as well.
The app you can arm, you can disarm,
you can control Z-Wave scenes.
If you have IP cams that stream to the panel--
so these would be the older generation IP
cams, because right now the new generations don't actually
stream to the Lyric--
so the old generations that stream to the Lyric,
if you have existing ones, and can actually
view the cameras on the tablet or your iPhone as well.
Now the good thing about this app
is that you can control the system
while you're in the house, while walking around.
You don't have to go to the keypad,
whether it is mounted at the front door
or on your kitchen countertop.
You can walk freely around the house,
as long as you have the app open, correct?
The only thing that you cannot do on this emulator is do
programming.
You cannot enter into programming and change a zone,
add a zone, change entry delays, anything that you can do
in programming on the Lyric, you cannot do on the emulator.
It simply works for just to control the system, arming,
disarming, Z-Wave scenes, cameras, stuff like that.
If you want to go ahead and see, I
can actually arm it right now.
It is in ready to arm state.
I would hit Security, the same way you'd hit on the screen.
I would do an arm away, enter in the master code--
remember the default Honeywell master code is 1-2-3-4,
unless you or your monitoring company has changed it.
One, two, three, four.
It puts the system into an arm away, starts my exit delay.
I can go ahead and disarm it using the same master
code, one, two, three, four.
And the app works pretty good.
It works, again, remember, only off of Wi-Fi
and it has to be connected to the same Wi-Fi network
as the Lyric.
Now, if you want remote control of the Lyric,
you do need to be monitored.
They actually just came out with a new update
that enables Apple Home Kit on the Lyric controller.
However, in order to get that update,
I believe you have to have your monitoring company enable it.
I have not seen any Lyrics out there
yet that come with Apple Home Kit enabled
or with the firmware update on it that has Apple Home Kit.
From what I've seen from our customers,
it has to be sent down from your monitoring company,
and that way you can actually control your system-- for you
Apple lovers and iOS lovers-- you can actually
control your Lyric controller from Apple Home Kit.
However, if you already monitor, you
can just control it with Total Connect, which
is the remote control interactive services
for the Lyric controller, which most monitoring companies do
support.
Now if you guys have any questions,
about monitoring services for Lyric
or if you can just use it without monitoring,
feel free to email us at support.AlarmGrid.com.
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I'm Jorge at Alarm Grid.
Thank you guys very much.
I'll see you guys next time.