Instant trigger alarm signal?

@_WH​ 

I would say disarming will most often still prompt a call from monitoring when a sensor is on Instant Trigger (which I take no issue with and prefer).

A few weeks ago, I was sleeping on the third floor and entered my office on the first. I forgot I had set my office Motion Sensor to Instant Trigger in Home mode (usually only assigned to Away). As soon as I opened my office door, the alarm was blaring, and since I was inches away from the Keypad, it took only seconds to turn it off. Monitoring still called me and my second number contact to ensure everything was okay. It has also happened other times, but only on the sensors set to Instant Trigger. Which, like Captain, is all but one – the one I use to enter my residence mainly. I always feel bad when I open an entry point, which triggers the alarm, but monitoring seems to genuinely not mind (it is not often, but human error allows it to happen). They want to know I am safe, and that is incredible.

While some may find fault with it, I would have it no other way. Instant, in my experience, is literal.

Thank you for sharing your experience.

In the event that a sensor is NOT set to Instant Trigger and is tripped, it seems that there is still a vulnerability where during the countdown the alarm event will not be sent to SS Monitoring until the countdown is over and thus the security system is vulnerable to Base Station destruction and thus will not send out the alarm event during this time and thus SS Monitoring has no idea that a break-in has occurred.

Although I have mine set to Instant Trigger for most sensors except for one door, that door is a point of vulnerability with the way I understand SS sends (or rather delays sending) the alarm event. I hope SS has resolved this security loophole, but I did not see anything to suggest that they have.

On the other hand, I am happy to hear that SS Monitoring is on top of things when they get the alarm event.

@_WH​ During the Entry Delay countdown before an alarm sounds, the Base Station hides by turning off its light and doesn't make any sound (which is why the countdown comes from the Keypad, as it also distracts from the Base Station.) And if the Base Station is ever unplugged during an Entry Delay, an alarm signal will immediately be sent to our Monitoring Center.