Hey, DIYers, Jarrett here from Alarm Grid.
Today we're going to be going over arm stay versus arm
instant.
You may be wondering the difference
in arm stay and arm instant, why I'm bringing this up.
Essentially, they're both very similar.
But there is a little bit of a difference between the two.
So for instance, arm stay mode is one of the normal ones
you would see or hear about because if you're in the home
and you want to at least armed your exterior sensors, meaning
like your door sensors, your window sensors
but you want you don't want your motion detectors to detect you
anything or anybody while you're in the home,
then you would use arm stay.
So for instance, arm stay mode arms all the door
and window sensors around the home.
So if you have any sensors on the windows that
are perimeter sensors, if you have
any sensors on the doors that are entry exit zones,
it's going to arm those.
But it's going to bypass all of your interior motion detectors
so that you or family or anybody who's in the home
can move around the home freely without triggering
any of those motion detectors and causing false alarms.
However, if you were to fault that perimeter zone--
say, you open up the window, and it's a perimeter zone,
it's going to trigger the alarm and the siren
immediately because it is programmed as a perimeter zone.
An entry/exit zone, like a door contact on your front door
or garage door, wherever you have the entry/exit zone,
it's going to start that entry delay,
so that it starts a countdown, you
can go and disarm the system in time
before the alarm is triggered or the siren is triggered.
Now arm instant is very similar to arm stay mode
in regards to arming the sensors around the door and window
sensors, and bypassing the motion detectors.
The only difference is that with arm instant mode,
the entry/exit zones are completely avoided.
Meaning like if your front doors or your garage doors,
any door that has an entry/exit zone on it that's
going to start that entry delay whenever you go ahead
and open that door, you're not going
to have the entry delay anymore.
It's going to act as, technically, a perimeter
sensor at that point.
So if you open the door it's going
to trigger the alarm and the siren
as normal as it would as like a perimeter zone.
So you want to keep that in mind when
you're using arm instant mode or arm stay mode.
Now, if you do go ahead and use arm instant mode
and you leave the home, just remember about that entry delay
being avoided.
You don't want to go ahead and open the front door
and the alarm and the siren triggers immediately.
You're scrambling to go ahead and disarm the system.
So you just want to keep that in mind.
Now, you have two different ways.
There's actually a few different ways
that you can go ahead and disarm the system in time,
or before you even open that door.
If you have a key fob you can go ahead
and disarm the system with the key fob
just by holding down the disarm button.
Or you can use Total Connect 2.0,
or alarm.com to be able to disarm the system before you
go inside.
So one thing you want to keep in mind about the different alarm
systems-- not every single one of them
is going to be able to support or come
with that option for the armed instant mode.
Normally, the systems will come with an arm stay mode, but not
an armed instant mode.
Like the VISTA-20P, for instance, or the VISTA series
systems, they come with an armed instant mode.
We'll get to that in a bit.
I'll show you what I'm referring to, and how go ahead
and set that.
But the Honeywell Lyric is one example of one
of those systems that does not support the arm instant mode.
It doesn't come with that pre-built-in,
like the VISTA, come preprogrammed.
Now, for these systems you can change around
the settings with the entry delay period
to be able to technically mimic the settings of an arm instant
setting, or an arm instant mode.
You basically just turn off the entry or the entry delay
period.
You either turn that completely off or you set it down to zero.
Either way that's technically turning it off.
And you set the system to an armed stay mode.
So it is bypassing motion detectors inside the home.
But it is also arming all of those door and window sensors
that you have around the home--
those perimeter sensors, those entry/exit zones.
But it is still going to void that entry delay
period because you're turning that off.
So for example, in the system right
here, we have the Honeywell Lyric.
As you can see, it's currently disarmed.
And when you go into the security option,
you see an arm away, arm stay, arm custom.
At the bottom you can see the entry delay on.
So being that entry delay is on, if I
were to set the system to arm stay
it is not going to avoid your entry exit, your entry delay.
If you open that entry/exit door or that zone,
it's going to start that countdown.
Now, to show an example, I have a door sensor program
with the Lyric.
As you can tell, program does front door.
So we're going to put the system into an arm instant mode.
I'm going to show you how to go ahead and change
those settings, and we're going to show you what
happens with an entry exit.
Basically, showing you that it does void that entry
delay period.
So if you want to set this panel to arm instant, what you could
do-- the fastest way to change the setting
to mimic the settings in essence is
by turning off the entry delay.
So on the Lyric, luckily, they threw it on right there,
right at the front.
So you just tap on it, and it turns off entry delay.
So now if I were to go into arm stay mode--
[BEEPS]
Armed stay instant.
You can see it says armed stay instant because we just turned
off the entry delay setting.
So now it's just going through the countdown.
It's arming the system.
And then I'm going to go ahead and fault the center
and show you what happens.
Now whenever you are arming the system,
you want to keep in mind that you are using your master
code to either arm the system or disarm the system.
The default master code for these systems is 1234.
So as you can now see, the system
is in arm stay instant mode.
We've already turned off the entry delay setting.
But that's currently void at the moment.
So if I were to fault this entry/exit zone,
it's going to go ahead and trigger
the siren and the alarm.
[SIREN]
Disarmed.
Not ready to arm.
Check the phone.
Disarmed.
Ready to arm.
All right, so as you can see, it automatically
triggered the siren and the alarm.
That the entry delay period was completely bypassed.
So if you have the system to an armed away or armed state
instant mode, it's going to do that for your normal door
and windows sensors that have that entry/exit sensor on there
or contact on there.
So you want to keep that in mind.
So another thing to keep in mind about the system
when you disarm and after you just put it
into an armed instant mode is, you
look at the bottom, the entry delay setting that we turned
off, it turns right back on.
So if you want to keep it off, you'd
have to go into the programming settings,
and change the entry delay.
But keep in mind that for future reference
if you have the system to an armed away mode or arm stay
mode and you open that front door or whichever door that
has that entry-exit zone, you're going
to trigger the alarm or a siren immediately.
So the fastest way is just by turning it off from here,
turning it on from here, but just wanted to point that out.
Now what we're going to be doing we're
going to arm the system with arm stay.
And I'm going to show you what happens with that door
sensor that has the entry/exit or the entry delay setting.
So arm instant or arm stay.
[BEEPS]
Armed stay.
Now we're just going to wait for this to fully arm.
Armed stay.
So now it's in arm stay mode.
If I fault this sensor, it's going to start the entry delay.
Disarm system now.
[BEEPS]
Disarmed.
Ready to arm.
All right.
So now I showed you the example in Honeywell Lyric,
and now we're moving over to the Honeywell Vista panel, which
does have the armed stay instant settings already preprogrammed.
So I'm just going to show you how to go ahead and do that.
On a VISTA panel, right now we're using a 6160 RF keypad,
so it's one of the alphanumeric ones
that we normally recommend that you use, especially
for programming.
But what you would do--
or if you look at the keypad, actually, you
have Stay on number three, and then
if you look at number seven you have Instant.
So if you want to go ahead and set the system to arm stay
mode, then you would just type in the master code followed
by the number three.
And it's going to go ahead and go into arm stay.
So the master code or the default master code,
again, is 1234.
[BEEPS]
Armed stay.
So right now it's in arm stay mode.
If I were to trigger or fault any entry/exit zones,
the countdown is going to start or the entry delay
is going to start.
Armed stay.
And you would have to go ahead and disarm the system in time
so it doesn't trigger the siren or the alarm.
[BEEP]
All right.
Disarmed.
Ready to arm.
So now to go ahead and place a system to an arm
stay instant mode, you're just going to type
in the master code followed by 7.
Armed stay instant.
So as you can hear, it's in arm stay instant mode.
So if any entry/exit zones are tripped or faulted--
Armed stay.
--it's going to trigger the siren and the alarm
immediately.
So you want to keep that in mind whenever
you are using that mode.
[BEEPS]
Disarmed.
Ready to arm.
And that is the difference between arm stay and armed
instant.
If you have any further questions about the Honeywell
Lyric or the VISTA or alarm systems in general,
please contact us at support@alarmgrid.com,
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This is Jarrett with the Alarm Grid,
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