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Wednesday, August 18th, 2021 12:36 AM
Motion Sensors - Not Triggering with Motion
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captain11
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2 years ago
Try this:
1. make sure you mounted the sensors with the test button on top
2. Make sure the senstivity switch is set to high.
3. Make sure ALL of your motion sensors are set to "Instant trigger" (no alarm delay if sensor is tripped)
4. Arm your system with you not in any of the covered areas.
5. Wait at least 5 minutes.
6. Walk into covered area, the alarm should go off and shut it off within 30 seconds or, if you are on monitoroing, will get a call.
Post your outcome here if you get a chance.
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cardihouse
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whoaru99
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2 years ago
I have two of the three usually set to alert only so if I don't disable them I get notification of motion alerts if I go into those spaces even when the system is off/disarmed.
That's the other thing you can do. If you have interactive monitoring you can set the motion sensors to alert only for experimenting/troubleshooting. That way you don't have to worry about arming/disarming the system. You will (or should anyway) get motion notifications even with the system disarmed/off.
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cardihouse
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2 years ago
1. The sensors were already mounted with the test button up (forgot that in my original post).
2. Changed sensitivity switch on the back of the sensor (behind bracket and above the battery) to High. (Did not set to Instant Trigger -- was using that as a backup in case I was still having problems.)
3. Armed the system while outside the covered areas. Waited five minutes. Then walked into covered areas. Triggered pretty quickly once I walked in and after the "5 minute" rest or "warm up" period after setting to Away.
@whoareu99, thanks for the heads up about desensitizing. I've had the system less than 10 days, so I don't think they should have been desensitized (yet). Good to know about setting to alert only. Clearly there are some missing definitions/information in the user manual. Understanding "secret alert" would be good to know, but not included anywhere that I could easily find.
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captain11
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