Sorry for my ignorance, but I am trying to answer your questions. I'm not a professional as I'm sure is obvious, just a struggling homeowner. It may help to know that the system was installed by a professional, and has been working great for over a year (except this cutout timer issue). I've tried contacting the original installer, but for some reason he's not responding (may have retired, not sure). So I'm struggling here instead, my understanding was that this website was for professionals and folks like me, hopefully that's still the case. Anyway:
panel firmware: In ElkRP I see the following, hopefully this is what your asking:
- system type: M1G
- Hardware Version: 0.13
- Boot Version: 3.3.6
- Firmware Version: 5.2.10
- Voice List Version: 0.8
I have 2 sirens on the system, plus I believe there is a built in alarm/siren on the panel(?).
Regarding zone types, yes exactly as you describe. Most are perimeter instant, but also have Burglar entry, interior follower, fire, heat, water, Interior night delay, interior, interior night
Logs don't indicate anything out of ordinary from what I can tell. Below is a typical entry after an alarm. I tried pasting into this post, doesn't work for some reason, so typing them in (could be typos). The messages are (more recent at top):
1146 = RESTOR BURGLAR ZONE Garag Dr2house (Zn11)
1240 = ZONE UNBYPASSED BDRM 3 Window (Zn 52)
1174 = AREA DISARMED (User 3)
1300 = EXEPTION OPENING (User 3)
1003 = BURGLAR ALARM ANY AREA Garage Dr2House (Zn 11)
I don't know what a "PIR" is, so don't understand when you say "you have PIR's set for perimeter instant, retriggering them into alarm, so the bell outputs will not time out"
Again, the system was set up by a professional who handles lots of Elk installations, so I would think in general things are set up properly (?), and everything works fine just doesn't stop alarming once set off until someone types in the code.