By programming your system alarm can you damage the programming of your alarm equipment?
NO, programming of the alarm system is done by the manufacturer and can't be altered.
The so "pompous" called programming by professionals is in fact nothing else than the "setup's" possibility designed in by the manufacturer in hiss program. A few limited examples: The setup of entry and exit time delay, the setup to allow complete all sensor operation or partial night alarm, the time at which you like to have automated night alarm on, ++
The most difficult part, when you setup you system, is to know what you like to have and how it shall behave. Don't expect that when you don't provide your criteria's to a professional installer that it will be like you dream of...
Paul