How to setup ARM and BYPASS behaviour

Other Devices & Integrations Door Locks & Sensors
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Hi All,

I just bought the Door sensor SM103 and included into my Z-Wave network. am new to the security thing.

I want below:

  1. when Armed, if door tripped, turn on living hall light, trigger siren, turn on my Foscam Camera, and send email notification.
  2. when bypass, if door tripped, turn on the carpark area light for 10 minutes. send email notification only.

however, i tried setting with association, and everytime when the door open, it turn on the light, and when the door close, the light off immediately, same goes to others. and there is no option to set behaviour for ARM and BYPASS.

any one have idea how to do this?

thanks

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Arm/Bypass is a feature that Vera adds, so you’ll have to use scenes to trigger any actions based on the sensor event. It sounds like you manually associated the sensor with the light, so the sensor will control the light directly. In that case, you won’t be able to make use of arm/bypass, delays, etc.

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Arm/Bypass is a feature that Vera adds, so you’ll have to use scenes to trigger any actions based on the sensor event. It sounds like you manually associated the sensor with the light, so the sensor will control the light directly. In that case, you won’t be able to make use of arm/bypass, delays, etc.[/quote]

I had a similar question… I have an ELK Panel and just installed the plugin… It shows my door sensors with an ARM and Bypass… What is that telling Vera? and would that flow back to the Elk? I understood this for a motion detector but for I door sensor I do not really.

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Same functionality: Vera supresses the event, i.e. it doesn’t kick off any scenes.

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Please can you confirm if my understanding of what is meant by Arm and bypassis is correct.

In the Trigger options I seem to have are… (and in brackets how I see them working if ised in ascene to turn a light on)

[ul][li]A Sensor is Tripped. - (will turn the light on at any time motion is seen)
[/li][li]An Armed Sensor is Tripped. - (will only turn the light on if the device is in an ‘armed’ state and motion is seen)[/li][/ul]

This tells me the sensor is always on and working, it’s just whether it needs to do something (via a scene) or tell me (via a notification) something has moved.

So a Security Profile for my housr using 2 virtual switch (or a schedule) could be…

  1. Create Scene No. 1 to Arm all my sensor devices, which is triggered by virtual switch 1
  2. Create Scene No. 2 to turn the lights and camera on and send notification, which is trigger by any one of my armed sensor devices being tripped
  3. Create Scene No.3 to bypass all my sensor devices, which is triggered by virtual switch 2

Did I miss anything?

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[quote=“parkerc, post:5, topic:171738”][…] confirm if my understanding of what is meant by Arm and bypassis is correct.[…]
This tells me the sensor is always on and working, […][/quote]
Yep; the sensor itself has no notion of arm/bypass. You’ll see the red-running/green-standing guy on the dashboard follow the state of the sensor, but if you had any scenes that use the sensor, they won’t get triggered.

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sounds right, but why do you need 2 v-switches? Just 1 v-switch, if ON then ARM sensors, and do the drill if the armed sensors are tripped. If v-switch is off, then bypass.

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Hi Capjay,

Sorry yes, you’re right. (thanks) however to have the virtual switch turn off automatically I (think) I would still need another scene (3) set up that’s triggered by the virtual switch going on with an action to turn the sensor devices back to bypass.

Some quick questions regarding those green and red symbols.

[ul][li]Is the green man standing saying the device is active (not tripped) and is the red running man shows the device is (deactive or) has been tripped? [/li][/ul]

[ul][li]Is that change to a red man irrespective of whether it’s Armed or Bypassed? Or does it need to have been assigned to a scene/trigger for it to change colour?[/li][/ul]

[ul][li]Is the change from green to red a once only change or oes it reset to green instantly?[/li][/ul]

Sorry for all the questions

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Green man standing = not tripped (regardless if armed or not)
Red man running = tripped (regardless if armed or not)

change from red to green depends on the type of sensor. If it’s a door sensor, it returns to green once the door is closed. If it’s a motion sensor, it returns to green if no motion is detected after a certain period (usually configurable per device)

HTH…