After a few decades of procrastination, I finally put wireless contacts on my second floor windows. I put it off because I had other priorities, and I trusted that Spiderman would not scale my house, rather he would prefer a first floor window or door.
Anyway, after all those years of no window contacts, we got used to leaving the upstairs windows open before and during sleep, with the ELK M1G auto arming to Home mode every night at 11:00 pm. But now if an upstairs window is open, ELK will no longer auto-arm, even though the alarm status now shows as force-armable. I have to manually force arm at a keypad, which I will forget to do.
I have the upstairs windows configured as both by-passable and force-armable, so I assumed armable meant that when my nightly arming event fires, ELK would still arm in Home mode because it is force-armable, which is still armable.
I do not see anything in the RP2 event programming options such as "force-arm in Home mode", only "arm in Home mode". It appears that I can create an event to bypass all those windows and then auto-arm, but it seems like force-arm is a better option because then I can see status as to which windows are open. If I bypass all the windows, the zone status shows windows only as bypassed, so I have no idea whether a window is open or not. And, of course, I don't want to automatically bypass the windows in cold weather - I want to ensure they are closed.
So my questions are: Is there a way to automate a force-arm? If I have to bypass the windows, is there any way to know which windows are open? Any other ways to do this, such as adding the windows to a new Area or some other creative way? Other advice?
Anyway, after all those years of no window contacts, we got used to leaving the upstairs windows open before and during sleep, with the ELK M1G auto arming to Home mode every night at 11:00 pm. But now if an upstairs window is open, ELK will no longer auto-arm, even though the alarm status now shows as force-armable. I have to manually force arm at a keypad, which I will forget to do.
I have the upstairs windows configured as both by-passable and force-armable, so I assumed armable meant that when my nightly arming event fires, ELK would still arm in Home mode because it is force-armable, which is still armable.
I do not see anything in the RP2 event programming options such as "force-arm in Home mode", only "arm in Home mode". It appears that I can create an event to bypass all those windows and then auto-arm, but it seems like force-arm is a better option because then I can see status as to which windows are open. If I bypass all the windows, the zone status shows windows only as bypassed, so I have no idea whether a window is open or not. And, of course, I don't want to automatically bypass the windows in cold weather - I want to ensure they are closed.
So my questions are: Is there a way to automate a force-arm? If I have to bypass the windows, is there any way to know which windows are open? Any other ways to do this, such as adding the windows to a new Area or some other creative way? Other advice?