Here is the situation. I have setup my system to arm the motion sensors and door sensors when I hit the lock bottom on my kwikset lock. My issue is coming home. I have also setup the system to unarm the same sensors when a valid pin number is entered into the kwikset lock. It issue is timing. If I enter the pin and immediately open the door, the siren goes off…but if I wait to maybe the count of 3 and then open the door, no siren. It issue is timing, giving the system time to unarm the door sensor before I open the door. Suggestion on how to solve this problem?..besides counting to 3?
Not sure how your siren is triggered, e.g by a motion or door sensor? and is the activation of a siren is part of a scene?
If so, you possible could create a short script so that upon activation/triggering of the siren you put in a short delay of e.g 3 seconds, after which time it then checks again to see if the sensors are still armed or not. If armed, activate siren, if not then do nothing/end…
I have a scene for each of the door sensors and motion detectors. Basically, if armed and triggered, turn on the lights, turn on the siren, start recording video for 5 minutes, then set everything back to armed, turn off the lights, turn off the siren, stop recording.
Maybe @futzle’s Countdown Timer can help with this.
as @parkerc and @oTi@ suggested, basically just let Vera count to 3 for you 