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BTW - for anyone who cares ... this was an easy fix ... I added the following line to the end of the rule posted at the beginning of this thread: "THEN UNBYPASS Garage Door (Zn6)" ... which also worked on my front door (which is not force armable) R

So I updated the firmware, but it still force bypasses any open zones, which then stays bypassed ... this seems to be the way you guys intended to have it work which makes sense. However, is there another way to do what I'm trying to accomplish ... basically, if a valid user code is entered...

Ok ... I did have the firmware update on my todo list ... Are you saying though that it won't matter? ... since an autoarm or remote arm command will always hard bypass a violated zone? Completely understand why it does this btw ... makes perfect sense ... I guess I'm just thinking that it...

I actually thought that one had gotten fixed in a subsequent firmware update, but you're absolutely right ... definitely related. I just checked and my garage door is bypassable as well as force armable ... I'm not at home until the end of the week to check if it makes a difference if I take...

I've ran into a funny issue (well ... not so funny, since it compromises the integrity of my perimeter security): I used to have a rule in HomeSeer that auto armed my Elk to stay mode whenever someone came home, disarmed the panel during an entry delay ... it is just a nice feature that make...

and btw ... I tried this and it worked ... thank you.

So Lagerhead's experience is beyond what I can document at this point ... but that seems odd ... rather annoying I would imagine I did go back to the manual and realized that page 33 of the manual contains a description of which alarm types generates what outputs (I have absolutely no idea how...

Speaking of cutoff timers ... has anyone else had a problem with setting cutoff timers with ELK RP 1.6.26? For some reason I can't pull up the timer values in the software ... it looks like the pic attached ... there is basically no way to see the timer values because the window won't expand to...

If CORT is correct, there is no way to disable outdoor notification for alarm zones. I might just take a Saturday afternoon and log what the output is for each of the different alarm zones ... if I do, I'll post the results. However, regardless of the actual behavior I'm guessing I could set...

No thoughts? I was at least hoping to get some direction on the third point ... I'd rather not hook up a small speaker to each of the outputs and go through all 40-some-odd zone definitions to see what alarm notification occurs with a trip of each ... I figured that a table exists somewhere out...

I have four outdoor speakers (Elk-1RT) and four strobes (Elk-SL1) mounted to the outside of my house, connected to my Elk-M1G. The speakers connect through a voice/siren driver (elk-120) and draws power from a secondary 4A power supply. First - I am planning on powering the strobes through a...

Excellent, thanks for the clarification ... makes perfect sense.

Anyone have any experience with Alarm Relay (alarmrelay.com)? This is same the company that Home Security Store re-sells through their site ... monitoring.homesecuritystore.com. Seems like an even more affordable option. Also - does anyone have any experience with devices like this ...

Excellent conversation ... thanks for the insights. Since it's been a couple of years since I studied this in school ;-) ... I might be drawing the wrong conclusions, but it seems that since amps = watts / volts as voltage drops over longer cable runs, amps increase ... in has to no? So I...

Right, but I was really trying to figure out if I understood how to calculate the current draw from the speakers ... which is the methodology I listed above, since it gets a little more tricky when you're dealing watts and cable lengths. On that note, I wonder how much the cable length...