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Prevention of alarm setting by schedule when sensor is open
I found a discussion thread from a year ago where someone was asking for this same capability & it appears their concern was never understood or taken seriously, as I found it a year later because I have the same concerns. I noticed this because, in the summer, I like to sit with my front door open to allow air into the living room. With my previous alarm, it would not auto-set with the door open. I would bypass the window sensors in the summer until I turned the air in & the windows remained closed again, but I obviously would never want to bypass my front door. Let me explain the concern with a hypothetical situation: A visitor comes to your door & finds a moment to be alone in a room for the few seconds it takes to crack a window, unbeknownst to the homeowner. Visitor leaves, day ends, alarm auto-sets, as usual, & homeowner goes to bed. About an hour after the lights have been out, the visitor comes back & goes straight to the window they left open. The homeowner had no way of knowing it was open (yes, they should have checked, but figured surely their alarm would not set with a window open…). Visitor climbs through the window as the homeowner sleeps, not even tripping the alarm because the sensor was automatically bypassed without the knowledge of the homeowner, & the visitor robs the home or worse. How has no one thought of this potential scenario yet to resolve this issue…? The interesting, & incredibly bewildering thing is, if I try to set my alarm with Alexa or even the app with a sensor open, I have to acknowledge I want to bypass the open sensors. If the alarm auto-sets, I may not even be home & now my home isn’t even protected when I thought it was. This doesn’t seem like a solid security measure. Please fix…. ASAP.
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2 posts were merged into an existing topic: Feature Request for schedule mode – Faulty sensor should not bypass automatically A vote has been moved.
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