Advise on Rules

[antplugger]

Hi, New to M1 rules and would appreciate some pointers. First the equipment - I have an M1G + Wireless (Smoke, PIRs Reed, Panic and Keyfob) + Ethernet etc

When a Fire Alarm occurs I would like
a) email a message
:huh: Ring my mobile
c) Announce over the internal Speaker
d) Dial and PABX paging number

These are the rules I have set up

1) Whenever Any alarm, All Areas
then send email
then dial phone # and announce Alarm

2) Whenever any Fire Alarm turns on
then announce fire
then announce fire
then announce fire

3) Whenever any Fire Alarm turns on
then Dial Paging System and announce Fire

- My questions are is this the best way to do this ?
- Are there any concerns with this approach
- What is the order of precedence for the same "Whenever" Rules does it do all of them ? does it do them in sequence, if you cancel the alarm prior to the completion of outstanding "Whenever" statements does it complete them ?

Thanks

 

[ddennerline]

Personally, I would not program any “extra†procedures for fire notification. I would just let the alarm scream full bore and notify the alarm company. I know that some people self-monitor, but for fire/medical related situations, this may cause delays and endanger your mortality. If you use NextAlarm, all this calling and notification can be moved upstream and be acted on *after* the fire department has been notified.

In terms of email notification, I have not had good luck with M1XEP. Some emails are severely delayed, other times they are never delivered, or multiple/duplicate emails are delivered. In order to get email working on M1XEP, I signed up for DynDNS OpenSMTP service. I have not had time to diagnose/troubleshoot this random problem. I have not experienced these notification problems with NextAlarm emails and text messages.

I don’t think the voice “Fire†announcements would be audible over the siren.

 

[apostolakisl]

I have my system set up to call me and email me with all of the different alarm types. The system also emails me every time the alarm arms or disarms. It has worked flawlessly. My iphone always gives me a "ding" as I am pulling out the driveway as I receive the email that it is armed.

Alarms, of course, are rare. I can tell you that my brother-in-law was watching the dogs and set off the alarm. He called right away and as I was saying hello to him, my phone came in with the call waiting from the elk and a ding from the email.

I have never tried setting up the other systems as you are planning.

I suggest having the alarm notify you of things like arm/disarm so that you get a daily system check on how the system is communicating.

Writing the rules is very obvious. I did have some struggles getting the email settings correct, but once I finally got it working it hasn't troubled me since.