Honeywell Lyric Alarm System: Adding Hardwire Zones

hey DIYs I'm Georgia alarmgrid today we're gonna be going over how to hardwired zones into layer controller now the lyric controller Honeywell's new system has 128 available slots for wireless zones it has 32 button zones by buttons I mean keyfob zones so 32 each key fob has 4 takes up 4 zones so that would be a total of 8 key fobs and it has two open slots for hardwired zones which are actually found on the back of the panel so if you grab the lyric controller you have everything powered on it's gonna throw up a cover tamper right now cuz I'm gonna take off the back plate so I can show you guys the two zones for the the 2 slots for the hardwired zones so usually you have a screw installed at the bottom of the lyric which holds the back plate down stop beeping which holds the back plate onto the system once you unscrew that you just slide the back plate down or if you have it mounted on the wall you bring the lyric up go ahead and remove the back plate now once you remove that back plate you're gonna see that if you're using an LT cable which is the most recommended cable to power on the lyric unless you have your own cable of course besides those two terminals you're gonna see hwz to the ground and hwz one hardwired zone 2 hardwired zone 1 GN d stands for ground now this is going to be where you hardwire your contacts into now the only devices that you should be wiring into this system are going to be door or window contacts you cannot wire in any devices that require power such as motions glass breaks smoke detectors you can't wire any of those into the system only door or window contacts and I'm going to show you why in a second here we're gonna get into the programming so after you wire them in also make sure whenever you guys are wiring in those zones and powering it on that you fish the through one of the holes here that way whenever you guys go to position the backplate on this cable doesn't get stuck between the backplate causing a tamper err this cover tamper button right here if it's not correctly pressed in won't throw up a cover tamper so that's a common mistake that I see happening a lot so make sure that you fish it through or just if you don't make sure that there is no that the cable is not blocking the back late from fitting on correctly like how it is right now for me once you snap it into place the system will have a cover tamper err once you have that in press the home button twice it's gonna ask you for your master code 1 2 3 4 is Honeywell default master code yeah so to get into the programming of the hardwired zones after you have them wired in all I want you to do is if you're at the home screen because that's where we always start you're gonna go ahead and hit the security next option you're gonna do hit tools you're gonna use honeywell's default installer code 4 1 1 2 now the installer code may have been changed by you or monitoring companies so if you do know it use that one instead but the installer code by default is usually 4 1 1 2 that's what it comes directly out of the packaging yes once you're entering the installer code hit program once you hit program you go to zones now in zones 1 & 2 are always going to be setting you unless you have edit that added them yeah once you let's say you do have one learn or wired in you're gonna highlight hardwired zone 1 you're gonna hit edit now the reason that I told you these can only do window or door sensors is if you go to device type the only options it gives you are window and door so let's say we do door it's gonna give you the response type entry exit which is usually what you want to do but you also have different options let's say you have a backdoor hardwired into and you don't want an entry delay on the back door because nobody uses that door to enter the house when the system is armed away or stay you can go ahead and set it to a perimeter the zone description you guys can set it to whatever you want I'll set it to backdoor right now so I start typing it in it's gonna start giving me suggestions back another thing I commonly see is people typing back and then they'll type in door 4 zone description - you probably shouldn't do that because the device type already says door so if you type in door zone description - it's gonna say backdoor door open so to repeat the door twice make sure if it's a window same concept you guys don't have to type window or door or motion or anything like that in the zone descriptions just type the area in which you have the sensor mounted in where you plan on placing it now alarm report if you're being monitored by central station you want to make sure whatever zone or whatever sensor you want to report to the Central Station that that is always enabled and set to yes if you have it set to no if any alarm gets tripped on that sensor it will not report to the Central Station or to AlarmNet the chime you can toggle through the chimes different ones you can do so this is if you open up the door and you want to hear the chime the panel chime you're gonna go ahead and switch it to whatever you want and then supervision now there's different ways of wiring in a contact right if you use a resistor at end of line an underlying resistor you want to make sure you have supervision set the end of line you can actually toggle through that if you haven't used a resistor you would just set it to normally closed and that's that and you also have the option of doing normally open most of the time you do want to have resistors on your wired sensors that way if anyone shorts the line the panel is notified and it lets you know that it's been tampered with so we're gonna go ahead and leave it as end the line resistor after you've done with all your programming changes to make sure you hit save it backs it out and now you have back door learn into zone 1 zone 2 is your second hardwired zone and it has every option that we just went through so I won't go through that again but just knows on 1 and zone 2 are gonna have the same features yeah same options window a door so I'm just gonna go ahead and back out of zone 2 and if you're dumb programming all of your sensors make sure you hit the back arrow key all the way out to the home screen and since I don't have anything learning to hardwire zone 1 and I programmed it in it's gonna tell me right now that the open that the back door is open right that's what I said the description has because it's not showing a closed circuit so it's letting me know that the back door is open but that's because I haven't wired anything in right so that is going to be how you hardwire and program zones into your controller if you guys found this video helpful make sure to hit like also subscribe to our YouTube channel and enable notifications that way whenever we upload new content you can get notified if you have any other questions feel free to email us at support at alarm grid comm thank you guys very much I'm George see you guys next time