oldchachie
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does anyone have any elequent way to disarm a single door contact to allow the dog to go out at some point during the night? I'm installing a normally closed contact, but would like to do something easy like a single pushbutton to allow me or one of my kids to allow the dog to go out in the middle of the night. seems a pushbuttone with a 20 minute timer and a whenever rule (this is an ELK M1 btw) is active, but it'd be nicer to figure out a way that we don't need to press the button (I'm sure I'll forget to one night and wake up the whole household).
Some Ideas I had were to install a door knob of some kind that knew the difference between an inside knob turn and an ouside knob turn. Also, I thought about putting a spring bolt lock on the inside of the door that one had to open in order to open the door (if you don't open the bolt, you physically can't open the door) and have that attached to a switch of some sort.... that seems klunky though. Any other thoughts?
I guess I should say that I don't want to have to disarm/arm the system from a control panel for this operation either...
Some Ideas I had were to install a door knob of some kind that knew the difference between an inside knob turn and an ouside knob turn. Also, I thought about putting a spring bolt lock on the inside of the door that one had to open in order to open the door (if you don't open the bolt, you physically can't open the door) and have that attached to a switch of some sort.... that seems klunky though. Any other thoughts?
I guess I should say that I don't want to have to disarm/arm the system from a control panel for this operation either...