I thought it would be easy to wire the doorbell to a zone, set it to normally open and then have a voice chime on the doorbell button being pushed.
So, I hooked it up, but it doesn't work.
Am I missing something? The doorbell's just a switch, shouldn't it work?
Thanks,
Mitch
By the way... I tested the connections and there is continuity throughout.
I also just took out the doorbell switch and held the wires together and the chime came on after about 3-4 seconds.
So, is there a way to get a momentary closure to trigger the alarm?
thanks,
Mitch
Mitch wrote:
Is there an option to set the zone to "immediate?" To prevent falsing the zone may be looking for the closure to last longer than just a button push. If you need a sustained press to activate it you could use a 555 timer circuit (about $10). The button press would trigger the timer to close a relay for as long as you need to fault the zone.
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Thanks for the tip... that got me searching.
I set the "fast loop response time" and the "slow loop response time" for the zone to 20 ms (the lowest it would go) and that seems to work.
BruceR wrote:
Excellent! Happy to hear it worked.
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