Hey, DIY-ers.
I'm Jorge from AlarmGrid.
Today, I'm going to be going over
why you may not be receiving temperature notifications
via your Lyric through HomeKit.
So first thing you got to understand with the temperature
notifications is that the response type
for the temperature notifications
are usually not response types that HomeKit is specific with.
So for instance, HomeKit only gives you
specific notifications that are actually, when I say specific,
I mean like it'll say front door, back door, living room
motion, it'll be specific with those kinds of sensors
because the response type that HomeKit
works with are perimeter, entry delay, interior follower,
and interior follower with delay.
So what this means is basically any door motions, windows,
I'm sorry, any door sensors, window sensors, or motion
detectors, is usually only what HomeKit
brings in and is specific with.
Any other devices, if you have smoke seals, in our case,
temperature sensors, flood sensors, those
all just come in as generic alarms on HomeKit.
And if you're not even getting those,
I'll show you guys how to enable that as well.
So the first thing we want to go ahead and do
is in order to receive sensor notifications or just
general notifications for that temperature sensor,
you need to make sure that you have the notifications enabled
on HomeKit.
So to do that, let me go in and get my iPad ready here.
I have it hooked up to HomeKit.
Let me get it ready so you guys can see.
Three, two, one, all right.
So just so you guys can see that my Lyric
is paired to my HomeKit.
I'm going to open up my HomeKit app,
and if you look at the Lyric system,
it's going to do a quick arm away.
The system goes into an arm away.
I'm going to go ahead and disarm it.
The system disarms.
Right there at Lyric, I just proved
that the Lyric system is paired to our HomeKit app on our iPad.
Now, if you're not getting any general notifications at all,
you need to enable them.
So if you hit Edit on the top-right,
you select your lyrics system, you
want to go ahead and go down to status and notifications.
Once you're on status the notifications, first of all,
you need to do include in status.
That's going to allow accessories
included in status--
all right, sorry, it says, accessories included in status
will be included among the overview items listed
at the top of the Home tab.
And then you also want to allow notifications.
That way, whenever the Lyric system goes off,
the HomeKit app will also go off.
If you have those disabled, then the HomeKit app
is probably not going to notify you for this device.
Once you verify that, just going to hit back.
Done.
And done at the very top.
So now that-- if you didn't have them
enabled, now that you do have it enabled, if you set off
a general sensor alarm that's not a door, window, or motion,
you should get a generic HomeKit alarm
which I'll show you guys what it looks like in a second.
Now, the other thing you want to make sure
is that your temperature sensor is set to an auxiliary response
type.
So to do that, I'm going to go into Security, Security, Tools.
I'm going to enter in my installer code,
mine is defaulted at 4112.
Yours might be different if you or your company has changed it.
I then go over to Program, Zone, and I have a living room
temperature sensor.
I'm going to hit Edit, and the response type,
you want to switch at the 24-hour auxiliary.
Now the device type, it's obviously your temperature
sensor, so you need to make sure it's set to temperature.
And again, the response type, if you switch it
to 24-hour auxiliary, make sure if you're
being monitored by a central station, let your alarm company
know so that that way they can notify the central station
that this is a temperature sensor.
As 24-hour auxiliary, if the central station
receives a signal with that response type,
they're going to think it's a medical crisis
and may dispatch the ambulance to you.
So make sure you guys let your alarm company know,
that way they can note down that is a temperature sensor not
a medical emergency.
So after that, you hit Save, you back out.
So I just hit the back arrow key all the way out
to the main screen.
So now, what I'm going to go ahead and do,
I have my tablet here at the home screen.
When I set off the temperature sensor,
you guys are going to see two things.
Well, three things, actually.
HomeKit is going to notify me that the Lyric
system was triggered.
I'm going to get a notification from Total Connect Total
Connect is Honeywell's application.
Once you're monitored with the company,
you just have to make sure you sign up
for the correct service that includes that app.
Total Connect is specific.
You will see that on Total Connect,
it will let me know that there was actually
a temperature sensor, the zone number and the time.
And then you will also see an email or a text message.
If you had emails enabled and text messages
enabled, that which I do, I will show you guys what
the text looks like as well.
So let me just go and put the tablet down, set off
my temperature sensor, the alarm goes off,
there goes my HomeKit, and now my Total Connect notification.
And if I scroll down from the top here,
give me one second, sorry.
You'll see here just now, the HomeKit app only says,
a default room Lyric was triggered.
It doesn't actually let you know what sensor it is.
You'll see Total Connect, actually,
it says, living room temperature sensor
and triggered at 9:52 AM.
So now, what I'm going to go ahead and do,
I'm just going to go ahead and disarm my system.
I'm going to use my master code.
I'm going to do disarm one more time.
That way, I can clear the alarm.
All right, you can also clear the alarm through both apps
as well.
With HomeKit, you just have to disarm the system twice.
And through Total Connect, you actually
have the option to clear the alarm.
All right, and now, let me show you
guys a text message as well.
So if you look at the text message, you'll see,
I've actually tested it a little bit before.
But you should see here that it's very specific.
Alarm alerts, office Lyric sensor
for living room temperature sensor.
Alarm that's on the 21st of May, 2019 a 9:52 AM.
It even lets you know that the built-in camera, which
is right up here on the Lyric system, if you have that
enabled, it's enabled through Total Connect
as well by the way, if you have that
enabled from Total Connect, whoever disarmed the system,
you actually get an image of it.
And then on the bottom, it'll actually
let you know that the alarm was cleared.
And then if you want, we can even
go into the app, Total Connect, as it logs in,
you'll see I'm getting notifications
from both Total Connect and HomeKit,
letting me know that the system was disarmed.
And now, if you look at Total Connect,
I can actually go ahead and view notifications from today.
And you'll see basically everything that happened.
You can go into the built-in camera
snap shot you can look at all the different notifications
that you got throughout the day from your Lyric system.
And that is just a quick video, showing
you guys a little difference between HomeKit Total Connect
and what it does for your temperature alarm alerts.
As you saw, HomeKit is generic when
it's alerting you of anything that is not a door, window
or a motion.
So if it's smoke seals, flood sensors, temperature sensors,
anything like that, all you're going to get
is default room was triggered.
If you're looking for something specific
and you're being monitored, then you
might want to look into getting Total Connect service which
we do offer on most of our monitoring plans.
And then you can also get the emails and text messages
to as many different phone numbers as you want.
If you guys have any other questions on the temperature
notifications from HomeKit with the Lyric,
feel free to email us that support@alarmgrid.com.
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I'm Jorge, and I'll see you guys next time.