woody
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I've successfully converted my home security system to Elk. But I need advice on how to handle a powered pet door (large enough for someone to crawl into the house) on my exterior perimeter.
The door is triggered by a magnetic collar key using a hall effect sensor (Not very secure, so might try my hand at a custom RFID solution someday). I have a window contact switch mounted to the pet door & tied to an Elk M1G input. When the system is armed, I need it to ignore the frequent pet door opening/closing unless it is held open for a period of time, say 5 seconds.
I've barely started with elk rules and I'm stumped. I put the zone into a different area. I created a counter.
Rule 1: WHENEVER Z003-Dog Door (Zn 3) BECOMES SECURE
THEN SET Pet Door (Counter 3) TO 0
Rule 2: WHENEVER Z003-Dog Door (Zn 3) BECOMES NOT SECURE
THEN ADD 1 TO Pet Door (Counter 3)
Rule 3: WHENEVER Area 1 Perimeter (Area 1) ARM STATE BECOMES ARMED
AND pet door (Counter 3) IS GREATER THAN 5
THEN TURN Out002-Siren (Out 2) ON FOR 1 MIN
This doesn't work because I can't figure out how to continue to increment the counter by 1 each second until the door is "secure" again" on Rule 2. Also on Rule 3, Does activating the Out002 activate the burglar alarm?
The door is triggered by a magnetic collar key using a hall effect sensor (Not very secure, so might try my hand at a custom RFID solution someday). I have a window contact switch mounted to the pet door & tied to an Elk M1G input. When the system is armed, I need it to ignore the frequent pet door opening/closing unless it is held open for a period of time, say 5 seconds.
I've barely started with elk rules and I'm stumped. I put the zone into a different area. I created a counter.
Rule 1: WHENEVER Z003-Dog Door (Zn 3) BECOMES SECURE
THEN SET Pet Door (Counter 3) TO 0
Rule 2: WHENEVER Z003-Dog Door (Zn 3) BECOMES NOT SECURE
THEN ADD 1 TO Pet Door (Counter 3)
Rule 3: WHENEVER Area 1 Perimeter (Area 1) ARM STATE BECOMES ARMED
AND pet door (Counter 3) IS GREATER THAN 5
THEN TURN Out002-Siren (Out 2) ON FOR 1 MIN
This doesn't work because I can't figure out how to continue to increment the counter by 1 each second until the door is "secure" again" on Rule 2. Also on Rule 3, Does activating the Out002 activate the burglar alarm?