tmbrown97
Senior Member
OK - not sure if others have had this issue, but I threw this together in about 3 minutes last night, and was happy with the results I acheived. Since installing the M1, there's always mornings or nights when someone wants to arm or disarm the system, or go to the garage without making a lot of noise (voices, chirps, etc)... Either I get up and leave for work early, or I'm up before my wife on Saturday, etc... So my plan was always to make a function button temporarily silence the system... But I'd never gone anywhere with the keypad function programming, so this was the first attempt. I copied the same logic to all 3 keypads.
So, last night, I made F4 activate task 4 [Toggle Audio], and attached the light to Output 199. Now, if I need to arm/disarm, go to the garage, or leave while my wife is sleeping, I can do so without disturbing her. And, it automatically goes back to normal in an hour (I'll probably add some rules so that on weekends, it resets after 2 hours - during the week it resets after 30 minutes).
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15 WHENEVER Output 199 STATE IS TURNED ON
THEN DISABLE NON-ALARM VOICE MESSAGES
THEN DISABLE CHIME IN House (Area 1)
THEN TURN Output 198 ON FOR 1 HR
16 WHENEVER Output 198 STATE IS TURNED OFF
THEN TURN Output 199 OFF
17 WHENEVER Output 199 STATE IS TURNED OFF
THEN ENABLE NON-ALARM VOICE MESSAGES
THEN SET CHIME TO DING ONLY IN House
18 WHENEVER Toggle Audio (Task 4) IS ACTIVATED
THEN TOGGLE Output 199[/codebox]
Not sure if others have the issue or have a more elegant way of handling this, but I was fairly proud of myself - mainly because it went from conception to functioning as desired in under 5 minutes and on the first attempt.
So, last night, I made F4 activate task 4 [Toggle Audio], and attached the light to Output 199. Now, if I need to arm/disarm, go to the garage, or leave while my wife is sleeping, I can do so without disturbing her. And, it automatically goes back to normal in an hour (I'll probably add some rules so that on weekends, it resets after 2 hours - during the week it resets after 30 minutes).
[codebox]
15 WHENEVER Output 199 STATE IS TURNED ON
THEN DISABLE NON-ALARM VOICE MESSAGES
THEN DISABLE CHIME IN House (Area 1)
THEN TURN Output 198 ON FOR 1 HR
16 WHENEVER Output 198 STATE IS TURNED OFF
THEN TURN Output 199 OFF
17 WHENEVER Output 199 STATE IS TURNED OFF
THEN ENABLE NON-ALARM VOICE MESSAGES
THEN SET CHIME TO DING ONLY IN House
18 WHENEVER Toggle Audio (Task 4) IS ACTIVATED
THEN TOGGLE Output 199[/codebox]
Not sure if others have the issue or have a more elegant way of handling this, but I was fairly proud of myself - mainly because it went from conception to functioning as desired in under 5 minutes and on the first attempt.