snakevargas
Active Member
The wife has decided this year we're going to start parking her car in the garage. She leaves early in the morning. I work from home. I generally like having the alarm armed in 'stay' mode while I'm home, in particular so the garage door is protected.
1) Our current method is for her to disarm the alarm, open the garage door, back the car out of the garage, close the garage door, exit the vehicle, enter the front door to the house, arm the alarm, lock up and leave the house, get in her car, and drive away. I don't expect this to last long.
2) One option would be for her to arm the alarm and exit the garage before the 30-second exit delay expires. I'm somewhat fearful she'll be slow some morning getting out of the garage and the alarm will be set off and she wouldn't even know it, because it would start sounding as she was driving away.
3) Another option would be to automatically arm the alarm every time the garage door is closed.
4) Finally, I could come up with some kind of remote where she could arm the alarm from inside the car.
Other people with armed garages, what do you do?
1) Our current method is for her to disarm the alarm, open the garage door, back the car out of the garage, close the garage door, exit the vehicle, enter the front door to the house, arm the alarm, lock up and leave the house, get in her car, and drive away. I don't expect this to last long.
2) One option would be for her to arm the alarm and exit the garage before the 30-second exit delay expires. I'm somewhat fearful she'll be slow some morning getting out of the garage and the alarm will be set off and she wouldn't even know it, because it would start sounding as she was driving away.
3) Another option would be to automatically arm the alarm every time the garage door is closed.
4) Finally, I could come up with some kind of remote where she could arm the alarm from inside the car.
Other people with armed garages, what do you do?