Changing the Date or Time on an Interlogix Simon XTi or XTi-5
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Making sure the date and time are set correctly is important for event logging. It helps you to accurately see when the system was armed and disarmed, and by ...
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hey DIY r's i'm george from alarm grid today we're gonna be going over how to set the time and date on a Simon XTi or Simon XTi 5 now the panel's are very similar so it's going to be the same walkthrough I'm using the Simon XTi today but if you do have the xti 5 it's the same exact steps yeah so it is very short and simple first thing you need to do just go ahead and click on the right right hand corner there's a little gear icon that's your settings once you click on that takes you to the page with all your status and settings you're gonna hit the down arrow key until you see set date / time hit enter it's gonna ask you to enter in a code this can be your master code your dealer code or the installer code either one will work so my back now because I didn't give it any action I'm gonna go ahead and do that hit the gear icon again hit the down arrow key go to set date and time and you can enter in your code I'm gonna enter in the default dealer and installer code which is 4 3 2 1 and I hit OK now again remember these codes could be different depending on your you or your company you guys may have changed it your company may have change it so you want to make sure you have those codes you can use your master code as well so that is usually the code that you armed the system with you can use that code and if it works it'll take you to the next screen set date and time so my time right now I have it set to 9:40 you can change that right now let's say I wanted to make it noon I would just type in 12 you can also use the down arrow keys and up arrow keys to increase it so you can use the arrow keys or type it in I'm gonna bring it back to 9 a.m. and then for the minute I'm gonna leave it let's say 9 39 again you can use the down arrows or the up arrow keys however you like I hit save and on top right now again you always want to make sure you're hitting save yeah if you're not saving your work it's not going to it's not gonna stay that way you can switch between a.m. and p.m. that one's just a press and it toggles it and then the date I same concept you just press on the box takes you to the month you can go down you can go up I'm gonna leave it on the 10th and my day is sort of the 25th today would be the 25th again you while you guys are doing this you guys want to switch it to your date alright I'm gonna go ahead and hit save and the year I'll leave it as 2018 but you can also change that by going down up typing it in however you like you hit save again and after you finish setting your time and your date on the panel you can just hit close and on top right hit close again in the top right and you're back at the home screen you now have the time appearing at the very top of your panel should say 941 and because I set it to 9:40 a minute past 941 that was a quick video on how to set the time and date on a Simon XTi or Simon XTi 5 if you guys do have any questions you can email us at support at alarm grid comm if you found the video helpful make sure that you hit like underneath subscribe to the YouTube channel and enable notifications oh and we upload new content you guys do get notified i'm george from alarm grid i'll see you guys next time
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