How to mute Elk M1G...

This morning my wife wanted to sleep in and I woke up a couple of hours early. I needed to do something in the garage. I was forced to wait due to my Elk M1G...It would have said "Home Security System is Disarmed". Is there a way to turn the alarm off without any noise?

Thanks for your help!

You can write a rule to enable/disable voice under rules then maybe assign it to fkeys.

wuench said:

You can write a rule to enable/disable voice under rules then maybe assign it to fkeys.

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Or, just remove this announcement. Consider how important it is to have an announcement that the alarm is turned off. I have very few announcements with my Elk, and known about the alarm arming or disarming. I just look at the keypad to see if it's red or green to know its current state. Plus, I've set a dialer delay on the slidin doors on our master bedroom balcony and the windows in the same room. Twenty seconds gives us enough time to disarm the alarm before it dials out for the occasional times we open these forgetting about the alarm.

HTH,
Kevin

I have all non-alarm voice announcements turn off 8 PM to 8 AM - especially since I use voice chime on all doors and some windows to know what the kids may be up to.

video321 said:

I have all non-alarm voice announcements turn off 8 PM to 8 AM - especially since I use voice chime on all doors and some windows to know what the kids may be up to.

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If I had kids at home still, I'd probably use many more announcements than I do now.

Kevin

Kevin L said:

If I had kids at home still, I'd probably use many more announcements than I do now.

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The kids' security is how I sold my wife on the alarm and a lot of the money I've spent on it and the projects to the house that are related to it!

ultrajones said:

You can also just hit the * key after you enter your disarm code which cancels the voice announcements.

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Awesome trick - didn't know that! I'll have to test that. Never seen reference to it in any documentation either.

I personally want to know when my alarm is disarmed. If my wife or I are gone at night, the other will often arm the house; when I hear the entry delay buzzer, I like to hear "Disarmed" to know it's her and not something to worry about (in a dead sleep, it's hard to tell 7AM from 3AM when all you hear is that buzzer). But once in a while, we have the same issue... so I programmed F4 as a Quiet Mode button - it disables all the voice announcements for 2 hours. This is great if I'm doing something while my wife is napping or if I leave while she's still sleeping, etc. It beeps at the keypad where it's pressed, but no announcements happen in the rest of the house. When in Quiet Mode, F4 is lit up on all the keypads and non-alarm voices are disabled. If you press the function button from eKeypad, then nothing beeps anywhere in the house. I use it fairly often.

Also - I find the Elk to be way too wordy by default. I don't need all the extra stuff it says - "Armed" - "Disarmed" - "Armed Away" - that's all I need. I fixed all the announcements to say the bare minimum needed to get the point across.

ultrajones said:

You can also just hit the * key after you enter your disarm code which cancels the voice announcements.

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I didn't know that either, Ultrajones. I'll have to give it a try.

Thanks,
Kevin

Work2Play said:

The kids' security is how I sold my wife on the alarm and a lot of the money I've spent on it and the projects to the house that are related to it!

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Me too - there were a lot of burglaries going on.

Work2Play said:

Also - I find the Elk to be way too wordy by default. I don't need all the extra stuff it says - "Armed" - "Disarmed" - "Armed Away" - that's all I need. I fixed all the announcements to say the bare minimum needed to get the point across.

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You mean like that spiel when the burglar alarm goes off

video321 said:

Me too - there were a lot of burglaries going on.

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That's when I sell her on a new house!

video321 said:

You mean like that spiel when the burglar alarm goes off

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That one is pretty bad - but once the GE Screamers kick in, your ears are bleeding and words no longer matter!

Work2Play said:

That's when I sell her on a new house!

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Didn't matter much unless you left the entire area. $200K right up to the $1M homes in separate areas were all getting hit.

ultrajones said:

You can also just hit the * key after you enter your disarm code which cancels the voice announcements.

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I have the Navigator...I don't see a *

http://www.smarthome.com/128302/Elk-Products-M1KPNAV-3-5-inch-Navigator-LCD-Touchscreen/p.aspx

jmed999 said:

I have the Navigator...I don't see a *

http://www.smarthome...chscreen/p.aspx

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Try the clear key ...

I have a rule setup so whenever I press F4, all voice announcements turn off for 4 seconds. I have voice chimes setup on all my doors, so this gives me the ability to arm/disarm/open a door without having the voice announcement go off, in case people are sleeping.

I have one leg of the speaker output running through a relay. On an F4 press, the output turns on for 5 minutes, breaking that circuit so all 8 speakers are off. The F4 button is illuminated for that 5min on all keypads.