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We sometimes use alarm suppression. For a 4i job for example if we got bombarded with low battery but the mains was ok we would suppress the smart PSU sending the LB warning and engineer action it next day.

You can use this feature on specific PSU's, zones, service types eg Fire or Burglary. Very useful.

Why would I need to reset?

I wasnt thinking that it was clever, I was thinking more that its a bit of a security risk. About twenty years ago when I was an engineer, one of our customers was burgled. The alarm had gone off front door he was called out, he arrived  called the engineer who found nothing wrong reset the alarm, an hour later they are back, engineer cant find anything wrong changes the contact, 30 mins later alarm goes off again engineer swaps the zones and omits the old zone the alarm goes off again keyholder decides not to set the alarm again that night, and guess what next morning shops empty.  If I want to burgle one of your videofied sites I just fill the house with moths wait a couple of hours sorted

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How's that sorted if we keep the video stream open all night? Also doesn't allow for an extra motionviewer to be triggered. It's a piss poor designed system if only 1 detector is available.


On the example you show, we would have seen the burglar doing the tampering and policed it :)

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How's that sorted if we keep the video stream open all night? Also doesn't allow for an extra motionviewer to be triggered. It's a piss poor designed system if only 1 detector is available.

On the example you show, we would have seen the burglar doing the tampering and policed it :)

No tampering just send the moths through the letterbox

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How's that sorted if we keep the video stream open all night? Also doesn't allow for an extra motionviewer to be triggered. It's a piss poor designed system if only 1 detector is available.

On the example you show, we would have seen the burglar doing the tampering and policed it :)

how do you inform the customer,do you ring the bells remotely or ring the customer and say by the way theres a hooded moth downstairs

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No tampering just send the moths through the letterbox

So we would have seen a ton of moths, until someone broke in then we would see an intruder and police it.

how do you inform the customer,do you ring the bells remotely or ring the customer and say by the way theres a hooded moth downstairs

Depends on alarm co or end users wishes. Some don't have any bells at all. Not required under EN's

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So we would have seen a ton of moths, until someone broke in then we would see an intruder and police it.

Depends on alarm co or end users wishes. Some don't have any bells at all. Not required under EN's

forget ens here i can understand on a commercial but a domestic id want to know asap with bells going,even a phone call isnt enough as either said moth could pull it out or customer doesnt have it to hand

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Alas, I just don't want connected cameras all over the house. It's a step too far for me.  Fine for a business, but the hacking potential for a domestic is a nightmare.  From what I've seen of security panel firmware, it doesn't fill me with confidence in having cameras added to the mix.

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