Areas and Zones

Olarm Areas and Zones overview

Areas

Olarm allows you to arm and disarm areas, stay and sleep arming is also supported on selected Panels

There are five Areas statuses
• Disarmed (Green)
• Armed (Red)
• Stay Armed (Yellow)
• Sleep Armed (Blue) Selected Panels only
• Countdown (Orange) 
Note:
The different arming states are determined by the alarm panel programming, if you would like to change any of these settings you will need to contact your installer.

Reminders

Reminders can be set on areas to remind a user that an area is still disarmed at specified time, this can be done by tapping on the gear icon for the specific area and setting the reminder time, a push notification will be sent to all the users on the Olarm.


If your Area is not showing the Ready state, please check the Zones page to ensure all the Zones are closed.

Zones

Zone statuses are displayed on the Zones tab which shows if any zones are open, closed or bypassed, from this page you can bypass or clear any bypasses by tapping on the zones bypass button or clear button.
Zones have the following statuses
• Active (Yellow)
• Closed (Green)
• Bypassed (Blue)
Note:
On zones that have been bypassed and the alarm system is then armed, will not trigger the alarm.
Disarming the alarm system will reset any zones that were bypassed before the system was armed.


Zone Alerts

Zones can also be set to trigger push notification even if the system is not armed, zones set to alert on activation will not send a signal to your Monitoring company if the system is disarmed.

To enable a zones to send push notifications for activity,
  1. Head to the Zones tab and tap on the gear on the zone
  2. Tap on Enable
  3. Then tap save


A details activity log displaying recent events can also be viewed by tapping the Activity log Icon or by scrolling to right on the App, you will be able to see Arming, Disarming Events as well as Panics that were send by either the Panel or an App user







If you have any problems, please feel free to contact Olarm Support
Phone: +27 21 009 0911 
WhatsApp: +27 60 039 0911 
E & OE. Terms & conditions may apply.


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