If zone is not secure- i want to have a function button blink - possible?

[aceman]

Folks - is it possible to say, have the light on the F2 button on a particular keypad flash if a zone is unsecure?

Aceman

 

[gatchel]

Any zone or a specific zone? Assuming a specific zone go to the keypad in RP2 and under illumination event for F2 select 40xx where xx is the zone number. Check the blink light box.

 

[video321]

For "any zone" you can use "area 1 is NOT ready to arm" (don't recall the exact wording, but I use that with other logic with my keychain remotes). In my case it will chirp my outside siren once if any zone besides the garage door is not secure.

 

[aceman]

for a specific zone...i want a zone for my garage doors which is not required to be secure for arming but i have a keypad in my master bedroom so if it flashes at least the wife / me knows the doors were left open by accident....thanks gatchel - i will try it when i get home tonite!

Aceman

 

[tmbrown97]

There are some cool things you can do for garage doors. In the case of more than one, you can use outputs to track when any are open, and also be able to press the button to have it close whichever door is open.

 

[apostolakisl]

Go to your keypad setup section. Set F2 on that keypad "illumination event" to your garage door zone state and check the "blink light" box.

If you have more than one garage door, you will need to use a phantom output. In this example, output 100 would be your illumination event in the keypad section.

Whenever

garage door 1 is secure​

and garage door 2 is secure​

Then

Turn output 100 off​

Whenever

garage door 1 is unsecure​

Then

Turn output 100 on​

Whenever

garage door 2 is unsecure​

Then

Turn output 100 on​

 

[Del91574]

There are some cool things you can do for garage doors. In the case of more than one, you can use outputs to track when any are open, and also be able to press the button to have it close whichever door is open.

I commonly use F5 and F6 on a KP to do such, blink or on when open, off when closed and pressing fires the output. Throwing in checksums to auto-close is also a nice addition.

 

[InspiredTim]

Why don't you just have an if garage door open and if after dark then close garage door command. Or can't you do that on elk. I don't know elk just Hai.

 

[tmbrown97]

It's totally doable... but 1.) I don't believe in auto-closing a door when nobody is around; 2.) I want to know any time of day if the doors are left open; not just at night. There can always be circumstances where I'm working out there, the ladder isn't put away; the truck is sticking out of the garage to unload, etc... if the system alerts me that the door is open, I know if I need to worry about those things or if I just got distracted when getting the mail.

I'd have to double-check my rules, but I thought I did something like - whenever door 1 changes state, execute task Check Doors; same for Door 2; then that task checks to see if either door is open and if so, sets the output. The button follows the output, and upon pressing the button, it fires a "close doors" task which will close either open door or both if they're both open. It's a cleaner way of doing things IMO.

 

[Ira]

I also turn on a phantom output when the garage door opens (and turn it off when it closes). Then every minute or so (forgot the interval), announce that the garage door is open if the phantom output is on. Since the garage is an attached garage, the "regular" garage door controller is just outside the door, and I only have a single large door, I don't worry about closing it from an M1G keypad. I also blink a Fkey as long as the door is open. Pressing the Fkey once while the door is open disables the "garage door is open" announcement for some predetermined period of time (30 minutes?). Double pressing it while the door is open turns of the announcement until the door is closed and subsequently opened. The Fkey continues to blink, however, until the door is closed.

Opening the garage door also results in a signal being sent to a wireless relay in my car every two seconds until the door is subsequently closed. If the ignition is on, the relay will cause a buzzer to sound. So I get a "beep, beep, beep" sound in my car if I leave the garage door open, at least until I've driven a few hundred yards from my home.

Lastly, for now, a M1G relay that turns on when the garage door opens (and stays on until the garage door closes or five minutes has elapsed) controls a couple of "parking lasers" in the garage. When the door opens, the laser shines a beam that you can see on the hood of the car. That helps make sure the car is parked correctly, both side to side, and front to back. I dread the day that the parking beam doesn't come on and my wife doesn't stop before she hits the wall...hard. A M1G wireless keyfob in the car can also turn on the laser for five minutes in case the door had already been open for five minutes and the laser had turned off. The keyfob can turn it off, too.