Wireless for Keychain Remote Only

[video321]

I think I like the chirp the siren idea. I do have a siren and strobe out front and was already planning on flashing the strobe to indicate armed. For some reason I didn't think about chirp the siren for not ready.

I may have just thought of a "better" way for my needs as we have 2 toddlers and I know the wife would not want to pull them out of their seats because the house won't arm when she's ready to back out.

Will this work:
-put a speaker in the garage
-set the overhead garage door to force-armable
-set a rule that whenever the garage door becomes not secure then announce "ready to arm" or "zone violation"

I believe I would either need to put the main house speakers on a relay or get a voice module to have it play in the garage only though, right?
Any other way I could get it to work?

edit...being the noob that I am, I remember reading something that the system won't arm with a quick arm key if a force-armable zone is already violated before setting arm mode. That would certainly throw a monkey wrench in my idea if that was the case! I would think using the keyfob and rules would be the same as hitting a quick arm key.

 

[video321]

Minor issue(M1G)...
It seems that if I leave a zone violated I can still arm the system away with the keyfob. As expected, I can't arm the system from my keypads with a zone violated. I would like to somehow implement the same rule with the keyfob. I don't understand why the system would let me leave a non-bypassable or force armable zone violated and arm away.

This is what I have going right now:
WHENEVER button 1 BECOMES NOT SECURE (type 16 non-alarm)
THEN ACTIVATE Garage Opener
THEN ARM AREA(S) 1 TO AWAY IMMEDIATELY

If I add:
AND BURGLAR STATUS OF ALL AREAS IS READY then it won't fire off because the garage door is open (it is set as force armable).

I have a rule to chirp the outside siren when all areas are not ready.

How can I get it to arm with the garage door open, but not when a zone is violated?
I would like this to work before the door closes because we park in the driveway and I would like for the wife to arm the house on her way to the truck with our 2 kids. So if she needs to go back in to close a window or something it will before she gets to putting them in their car seats.

 

[tmbrown97]

what about adding a bypass for the garage door? You may have to play with the order of the rules, but add:

WHENEVER button 1 BECOMES NOT SECURE (type 16 non-alarm)
bypass Garage Door
activate task Arm Away
--------- Rule 2:
WHENEVER Armed Away
AND Garage Door becomes secure
THEN un-bypass garage door
--------- Rule 3:
Whenever Task Arm Away is activated:
AND Burglar Status of all areas is ready
THEN ARM AREA(S) 1 TO AWAY IMMEDIATELY


Not exact, but should be able to get there with some logic more like that I would think. You might even be able to combine the activating of the alarm and the bypass in the same rule as long as they fire in the right order - but sometimes with the elk things fire in a weird order, so separating tasks sometimes makes it easier.

 

[video321]

Last night while I was laying in bed I was sketching up a little flow chart that was very similar to yours using outputs.
This is what I came up with:

WHENEVER Keyfob Button 1 BECOMES NOT SECURE
AND BURGLAR STATUS OF ALL AREAS IS READY
THEN ARM AREA(S) 1 TO AWAY IMMEDIATELY


WHENEVER Keyfob Button 1 BECOMES NOT SECURE
AND BURGLAR STATUS OF ALL AREAS IS NOT READY <---changed to this instead of garage door for better control
THEN BYPASS Garage Overhead
THEN TURN Output 208 ON FOR 1 SECS


WHENEVER Output 208 TURNS OFF
AND BURGLAR STATUS OF ALL AREAS IS READY
THEN ACTIVATE Garage Overhead
THEN UNBYPASS Garage Overhead
THEN AREM AREA(S) 1 TO AWAY IMMEDIATELY


WHENEVER Output 208 TURNS OFF
AND BURGLAR STATUS OF ALL AREAS IS NOT READY
THEN UNBYPASS Garage Overhead <----added this so it won't stay bypassed for any reason
THEN CHIRP THE OUTSIDE SIREN 3 TIMES


WHENEVER AREA 1 IS ARMED AWAY
THEN TURN Front Ext Strobe ON FOR 20 SECS



I think I'm going to incorporate some of what you did, Work2Play, and use a task or two.
What I need to test this morning is how will everything react if the garage is in the process of closing during all of this. Hopefully, if I need to press the keyfob button a second time because the rule then opened the garage in mid process then it will simply use the second press to close it. Something I may use that Work2Play did too was to unbypass the garage after it becomes secure. It's easy for me to not use the garage closer and only the keyfob, but the kids running out may have another idea!

Any thoughts on this?

Well...so far so good with some testing :rockon:
If the garage door is in any state I can just hit button 1 again to re-trigger the garage opener task keeping the system going through it's exit delay countdown.