Something I thought I'd share that has been working good for me.
I wanted to create an auto arming on the system but found relying on motion sensors alone caused to many false armings. I felt that if motion was detected by just one sensor and the front door or garage door was never opened then it shouldn't ever auto arm because I'm still home.
So with that I added a second output to hold the two doors I wanted to use.
Here is the current setup:
Two outputs (for example 10 and 11; 10=Motion 11=Doors)
In order to auto arm I created a rule that whenever output 10 and 11 both become 0 then auto arm.
Here is how it happens
Whenever motion is detected on any of the motion sensors:
-Turn on output 10 for 30 min and reset if already on.
-Turn on output 11.
So if you only trigger just one motion sensor you would never have to worry about auto arm.
No for opening the key doors.
Whenever Front door becomes unsecure or garage door becomes secure:
-Turn on output 10 for 30 min
-Turn OFF output 11 (Opening the door is the only way to get output 11 to be 0)
This would give 30 minutes to hit another motion sensor and if it was the front door I would hit it right away. For the garage I actually made it turn output 11 to 0 when becomes secure just to give time if door was left open for whatever reason.
I wanted to create an auto arming on the system but found relying on motion sensors alone caused to many false armings. I felt that if motion was detected by just one sensor and the front door or garage door was never opened then it shouldn't ever auto arm because I'm still home.
So with that I added a second output to hold the two doors I wanted to use.
Here is the current setup:
Two outputs (for example 10 and 11; 10=Motion 11=Doors)
In order to auto arm I created a rule that whenever output 10 and 11 both become 0 then auto arm.
Here is how it happens
Whenever motion is detected on any of the motion sensors:
-Turn on output 10 for 30 min and reset if already on.
-Turn on output 11.
So if you only trigger just one motion sensor you would never have to worry about auto arm.
No for opening the key doors.
Whenever Front door becomes unsecure or garage door becomes secure:
-Turn on output 10 for 30 min
-Turn OFF output 11 (Opening the door is the only way to get output 11 to be 0)
This would give 30 minutes to hit another motion sensor and if it was the front door I would hit it right away. For the garage I actually made it turn output 11 to 0 when becomes secure just to give time if door was left open for whatever reason.