Hey, DIYers.
Dylan here with Alarm Grid.
Today, we're going over how to bypass zones
on a security system.
Today, we're going to be talking about the Vista panel as well
as the Lyric.
I'm going to stick to Honeywell today.
Bypassing zones in pretty much a majority of the all-in one
systems is pretty similar, pretty simple.
Vista, it's a little bit different,
in there's a little extra option in there
that I'm going to show you, as well.
So to start off with the Vista, we have our Vista panel,
as you can see, in a ready-to-arm state.
What I've done is I've wired resistors to zones 1 and 2.
I programed zone 1 as a fire zone, which is usually
how it's going to be set up.
And I programmed zone number 2 as a front door
sensor, just normal burglary zone sensor, entry, exit.
That's not really important too much, cause I'm not arming it.
So what we're going to do to simulate a trouble, which
is usually when you're going to have to bypass the system,
you'll bypass-- sorry, bypass the sensor.
You'll bypass the sensor if the zone was troubled,
basically if there's an issue with it
and you just don't have time to resolve the issue
or delete the zone, and you need to arm the system,
or if you want to just leave, like, a window or a door
open while the system is armed.
So say you're at home, you're doing armed stay,
but it's nice and breezy outside.
You want to keep the windows open.
We'll bypass windows, allowing you to arm the system.
So to show how to bypass zones.
So the first way you can bypass a zone on the Vista is
by entering the master code 6-- as you can see,
it says bypass--
and then the zone number.
You can also do what's called a forced bypass.
This bypasses all the zones that need to be bypassed.
A forced bypass does not mean that it's
going to harm the system automatically when you do this.
It's just going to bypass everything,
allowing you to arm the system afterwards.
So for example, that is the master code followed
by 6 followed by pound.
So I'm going to show you how to do both in just a moment.
Side note, so for bypassing zones,
the only types of zones that you need to bypass
are burglary zones.
That would be door contacts, window contacts, glass breaks,
motions, anything like that.
Fire zones, smokes, COs, heat temperatures, heat detectors,
you do not have to bypass.
So as mentioned, I have zone number 1 set as a fire and zone
number 2 set as a front door.
So what I'm going to do is I'm going
to loosen the resistor on zone 1,
simulating a fault in my smoke detector.
And then you'll see on here, it's going to trip a trouble.
It will say that it's still ready to arm,
I'll still even be able to arm it.
Just want to see how it is.
So let's go ahead and undo zone number 1.
[BEEPING] I'll loosen the resistor.
As you can hear we're already getting trouble beeping.
Silence that.
And then as you can see here, it says fire trouble 1.
Now it doesn't say anything about not ready.
My ready light is still on.
So let's go ahead and try to arm it.
So our master code is still the default 1234.
[CONFIRMATION BEEPS] There we go.
Arm stay.
I still have a fire trouble.
So that's showing that even if a fire zone is in trouble,
you don't have to bypass it or anything to arm the system.
So I'm going to disarm.
Disarmed.
Still have my fire trouble message.
Going to let me know.
So now I'm going to undo the resistor on zone number 2,
which is our front door.
So this would be, say, the wire comes loose,
there's something wrong with your contacts,
anything like that.
That will cause a trouble state for that system.
So let me do a second disarm on here, hit star for faults.
Fault 02 front door.
That's the other one that we just did.
All right, so I have my zone 1 still faulted
which obviously isn't really that big of a deal.
Zone 2 being faulted, however, my ready light is off.
Shows hit star for faults.
Usually if it shows that, you know you have an issue.
Going to try to arm it.
[BEEP] And when I try to arm it, it shows fault 02 front door.
So what I'm going to do is first show
how to bypass it just buy zone number.
So I'm going to do 1234 602.
[BEEP] Bypass 02 front door.
Disarmed, bypass, ready to arm.
So I bypass that zone specifically.
My zone 1 is still in a trouble state, but as you can see,
the panel does not care about that at all.
I have my ready light on.
Let's go ahead and arm it.
Arm stay.
Zone bypass.
Disarm.
Hit star for faults.
Shows my fault. Ready light is off.
Every time you disarm your system it's
going to undo your bypasses.
So let me get rid of that message.
So just kind of go over that one little part.
So what we did is we bypassed that specific zone.
So I did the master code followed by 6 for bypass
and then the zone number.
So if it's zone 2, you have to do 0 and then 2.
So 1234, 6, 02, and that bypasses zone number 2.
Now we're just going to do a full bypass.
So that's called the forced bypass.
So for that, that's the master code, followed by 6 for bypass,
followed by pound.
So 1234 6 pound.
[BEEP] Ready to bypass there.
Disarm, bypass, ready to arm.
Have my ready light on.
[CONFIRMATION BEEPS]
Armed.
Stay.
Zone bypass.
There you go.
So similar.
This one obviously the force bypass
is if you have like a lot of zones you're trying to bypass.
So my example before, if you have windows,
it's a nice breezy day outside, you want to leave a lot
of your windows open. .
Instead of going through 02, 03, 04,
and then going through all the zones together, force bypass,
easy enough.
Just gets them all out of the way.
And we'll just disarm.
[BEEP] And then just to show once I've fixed the trouble.
Close that zone there.
So this is indicating that I'm fixing the trouble for zone 2.
And even though it doesn't really matter,
I'm going to fix the zone for 1.
So both my resistors are now back on,
simulating that the sensors are fine.
Ready to arm.
Ready light.
I don't get any troubles.
When I press star nothing happens.
Then obviously I don't need a bypass anymore with that.
Next we're going to show is how to do it on a Lyric panel.
OK, so we have the Lyric panel here.
What I've done is I've programmed this 2 gig door
sensor to the actual panel.
So we'll just wake this up real quick.
So I'm just going to default this to make sure it's working.
We've got that, now ready to arm front door.
6 [INAUDIBLE] down there beeped.
Close it back up, ready to arm.
So for bypassing on the Lyric, it's actually very, very, very
simple.
So we're going to open the door, simulating a fault.
And obviously same idea.
If this is also in a trouble state, you have to bypass this,
as well.
So that would be tamper, low battery, anything like that.
Here, let's actually test that, as, well.
So I'm going to pop this open.
Got our temper there.
So tamper, 3 front door, not ready to arm.
I don't have an arm option here.
So it's not like the Vista where I can just try to arm it.
It doesn't even give me the option.
So I'm going to close that back up.
Sensor's nice and closed.
That's disarmed, confirm.
Oops.
[BEEP] And once more if this still shows.
There we go.
So tamper's resolved.
Now I'm just going to fault it again.
[BEEP] Fault the door.
As you can see, I don't have my arming option.
So what I'm going to have to do is
go into zones or I can do arm custom.
So if you do arm custom, this is kind of like a quick way
to bypass zones.
So we go to select the zone you want
to bypass, arm custom, enter your master code, of course,
arming.
[BEEP] There you go.
Volume's a little low.
But as you can see here it says arm custom exit now bypass.
So I'm going to disarm.
[BEEP] Turn the volume up just a bit.
There we go.
So just to recap, so you can do arm custom.
That's going to show you all your zones
that you have programmed here.
We only have the front door just for video.
But if you want to bypass a zone,
you're going to highlight it.
So any blue highlighted zone on there
you know it's going to be bypassed.
Arm custom, code, it will arm it and then bypass it.
You can also do going through zones.
Same exact idea.
You can see all the zones here, they are programmed.
Hit it, bypass, code, and then there you go.
Ready to arm, bypass.
No items on display, so that's selecting fault.
These are all my bypass zones.
So I can clearly bypass 2 if I wanted.
Clear bypass, you're going to have to enter your master
code again.
That unbypasses that zone.
So I didn't really disarm the system,
I just kind of undid the bypass.
So we got that there.
Select bypass, nothing.
And then as you can see, orange indicating a fault
because my door is still open.
So that's pretty much how you do it on the Lyric.
Next I'm going to go show you how to do it on a GC 3 panel.
OK, so we've done the Vista, we've done the Lyric,
now we have the GC 3.
GC 3 is very, very simple, as well.
Like I mentioned, usually all the all in one touch screen
wireless systems, they make it as easy as possible
to use these systems in general.
So bypassing is the same.
It's very, very easy.
I use the same door contact I used on the Lyric, programmed
it to our GC 3.
So what I'm going to do is fault the zone.
And then as you can see right here on the main screen,
we have a bypass all option.
Press on that, it's going to ask you to enter your code.
Whoops.
There we go.
So we have a 1.
Pressing on that, that shows our bypass sensors.
As you can see, it says ready to arm bypass
even though my door is open.
It's wide open.
So I can do an arm stay.
Got that disarm.
And then, as mentioned previously,
whenever you disarm on any system
it's going to undo your bypass.
Another way to do a bypass for your sensors is here
is system settings, bypass sensors.
And then you can show here's sensor 1.
Go on and bypass it from there, ready to arm.
Can unbypass it from there.
And then you can also get to that using either the installer
code, which is that first code I used,
the 1561, or the default master code, which is 1111.
Either one shows the bypass sensors option.
And then select which one you want to bypass.
Shows bypassed.
You can go back, arm it, or do bypass all from there.
Enter your master code.
Arm.
Very easy.
Last panel we're going to go to, also super easy is the Qolsys.
Qolsys actually has a feature for a auto bypass.
So going to look at that real quick.
OK, final panel we're talking about today
is the Qolsys IQ 2 panel.
So as mentioned, this does have an auto bypass feature.
I have disabled that for now.
Pretty much when auto bypass is enabled, what happens is--
going to fault my sensor here.
Got my front door open there, broken chain
means that it's faulted.
So if I had auto bypass still enabled,
it's kind of self-explanatory on what it does.
It just bypasses it right away.
You don't even have to worry about it.
So what you would do is basically arm it.
Right now since I have it disabled we get this message.
If I had it still enabled, you wouldn't get that message.
It would just go straight to arming.
It would show it as bypassed there,
you wouldn't have to do anything at all.
That's kind of a plus and minus.
Obviously it's going to show you all
of the zones that are faulted there prior to arming.
So they really shouldn't be an issue with you not knowing,
hey, maybe you have a window open,
something like that, because it's still
going to show you right there.
This just gives you a little extra verification
if you want to actually do it.
Just going to press OK.
That's the bypass right there.
Very easy symbol to follow.
Arrow going over it as in it's basically
just looking over the sensors.
Not really worry about it at all.
So disarm.
Perfect.
Toolbar's there still.
And then just to show if auto bypass was still enabled,
1561 is the default on solar.
I'm sorry, too many panels, keep getting confused.
1111, default installer code.
We go to installation, security arming.
Auto bypass, we enable that.
Back to home.
And now when I arm it, we're not going to get that message.
It just goes right to arming it.
Has our bypass symbol right there.
Easy enough.
So any sensor that was open or fault
is going to show there, it's going to show if it's bypassed
or not if you got the auto bypass enabled.
And then if you don't have the auto bypass enabled,
you'll just get that little prompt there saying
would you like to bypass.
OK, so we went over a good amount of bypassing today.
We went over Vista panel, we went over Lyric panel,
GC 3, Qolsys IQ 2.
We do have more FAQs on our website, www.alarmgrid.com
if you want to learn more about bypassing sensors on systems
I didn't go over today.
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It's a pleasure being here.
This is Dylan from Alarm Grid.
Thank you for watching.