Qolsys IQ Panel 4: Wiring and Programming a Zooz ZEN16 MultiRelay

hey DIY is Dylan here with alarm grid today we're going to review what do I use instead of the mimo light relay device uh so the mimolite has been discontinued unfortunately but there is another option it is the Z16 relay I'm going to show how it's wired uh I'm going to show how to get it working with our IQ panel 4 system and we're going to hook up a strobe light test it from the panel and then also show how to test it from alarm.com and set up a smart scene for as well all right so we're going to do our wiring first and then we'll pair all this to our alarm system uh and then we'll test it just to make sure everything's working properly so instead of a siren we're going to be using a strobe light here we have the uh Zeus Z16 we have the ad12 612 power supply and we have our uh 1361 Transformer now there are battery connectors as well but just for this we're not going to connect the battery um but that's good if you want to have that backup battery option in case the power goes out you can keep this live and active Okay so first uh we are going to get our uh wiring done on the uh Zeus relay so for this you're going to want to First Connect well the order doesn't really matter but as long as you have everything wir properly but first thing I'm going to do is I'm connect our little jumper wire here to the positive red output and then the uh R1 terminal that's closest to the left here connect those and I'm not going to tighten the terminals just yet because we're going to be doing some more wiring for those I'm going to connect our red wire from our siren or in this case our strobe oh just realized I put that in the wrong really one terminal so the one all the way to the left here and then for this one I'm going to connect our red from the siren or the strobe and then we're not going to connect anything else to this I'm just going to close that right now okay nice and secure we're going to connect uh some wiring from the relay to our power supply grab my wire for that so from the black negative terminal and and put our black wire we have nothing else connecting to that so I'm going to tighten that now and then we're going to connect the red to the red just Rel loosen that okay reattach our jumper let's tighten these up okay nice and secured okay nice tug everything is nice and secured there and that's going to be uh essentially all the wiring we'll do for the Relay all right so now we're going to move over to our power supply here okay so from The Wire that we have connected to the red and black terminals on the relay we're going to connect these to our power supply black will go to the uh DC negative terminal and red will go to the plus output loosen these okay nice and secured oh actually let me loosen this minus DC because that's also where we're going to put the black wire from our siren reconnect that and tighten okay nice tug make sure everything's secure okay so we have the relay and the power supply so now we're going to wire the power supply to our Transformer and since this is AC there's no polarity so there's no negative or positive uh as you can see here and then for the 1361 or similar Transformers really you don't have to connect anything to the ground so we're just going to connect AC to AC AC to AC so we wire up the Transformer first and again no polari so doesn't really matter which colors go to which make sure the wiring is nice and snug in there then the wiring over here okay we just get that back all right nice and secure then the other end of the wire again there's no polarity so doesn't matter we don't have to follow the colors just want to get the two AC wires connected these into place make sure they're secure all right and nice tug everything is secured jumper secured sir secured transform secured okay so now let me grab our panel here we're going to go into the panel we're going to press the top Gray bar we'll go into settings we're go to advanced settings 1111 the installer code installation we're going to go to devices and the relay is a Z-Wave device so we'll press Z-Wave devices here uh now when you want to do uh pairing uh you want to exclude a device first even if it's not already been paired to a system this just helps make sure that you're not going to get any issues with this connecting so for that on the iq4 that's the clear device option and I'm going to plug in our Transformer okay well that's plugged in if it doesn't automatically uh learn in there there's a little button on the back of this on back of the relay you'll notice about the blue LED right above it we're going to press that three times perfect so that shows me that the relay is communicating because it sent that once I press that button three times okay so we have this excluded now we're going to do that same process but just through the ad device press include and again one two 3 all right that's learned in there press okay and now since this is a uh zwave Plus or S2 device it does have a QR code here this is um it helps you pair it more securely with the panel so what you want to do is you want to grab the QR code line it up with the camera this can take a bit so you just want to be patient with it let the camera capture the QR code there we go so I was holding it a little bit too close so the camera's having function having trouble focusing so just pulling it back a little picked it up perfect now with the Zeus relay it's always going to learn in as a light uh type that cannot be changed so you just want to keep that as is um so we are technically using a light today uh but instead of this learning it as a uh switch or anything else it's just going to learn as a light that's just common with us uh but what you can do is you can change the name so you can do a predetermined name or you can do custom so predetermined scroll up and down custom name then I'll give that custom description option I'll pull up a keypad uh I'm going to put in Siren okay and then add perfect okay so we're going to back out to the home screen now since this is a zwave device we're going to be able to access it from the main screen on the iq4 and as you see here it's pulled in three times so there's three relay options for the Zeus one two three all three learn in automatically so even I'm just using one even if I had jump cables on these doesn't really matter it's always going to learn in the three uh so uh since we did number one going to press one do on we heard the click on the relay we have the light going and then press that off click on the relay light turns off so this shows you that our wiring was correct everything is secured the pairing process went through fine uh it's pulled in there and again just to show we can access this remotely uh so this is good um some of our customers want to have the option of uh triggering a siren without actually triggering the alarm system uh people would like to use that as say a warning uh so if you want something like that this is a good way to go because because you can trigger this remotely and as you can see the panel is not in alarm state or anything like that it's just seeing that we have a relay connected and we can turn it on and off uh now since this is also a Z-Wave device you can go into alarm.com and set up a smart scene for this so uh you're actually going to want to do that majority of the time because when your system uh siren triggers unless you set up that scene it's not going to know to send a signal to the relay to activate that siren so if you're testing this you have it paired you can turn off and on from here but when your alarm system goes into an actual alarm if this isn't triggering it's because you didn't set up that scene so we're going to go over to alarm.com I'm going to show how to set that uh set that scene up we'll come back to the panel and we'll test it okay so we are on alarm.com here now we're going toh create the rule for the siren or our strobe to activate so to do that we're going to automation we're going to click add new rule new rules Builder we're going to select for the when option we will do alarm and we will do any intrusion sensor done then select light switch and and turn on and then done we will keep this at indefinitely and we will keep this at run at all times and we'll click save we'll name this siren and press okay okay so now we're also going to create a second rule to turn off the siren so we will again click add new rule new rules Builder select for when click security panel click disarmed done select for then click light click turn off done again we'll keep it at indefinitely and run at all times click save name this disarm and then click okay all right so we have the rule to activate the light again the light is our relay the relay automatically learns in as a light so alarm.com recognizes it at as what it learned in as at the panel uh so we'll turn on the light when the sound occurs and then we will turn off the light when the panel is disarmed so we will test this now I'll go ahead and arm from alarm.com we will click stay all right our system is armed I'm going to go ahead and open our front door [Music] sensor okay so we saw that when the siren was triggered after I opened the front door sensor our strobe turned on if you had a siren connected the siren would blare and then after we disarmed the system then that uh turned the light off so it disabled the relay okay so that is how you set up the Zen or zen6 relay device um we used the IQ panel 4 and we showed how to set that up through the panel how to get it working through the panel as well as how to get it working through alarm.com and how to set up a smart scene for it uh if you did have any questions for us feel fre uh feel free to reach out you can give us a call our phone number is 888 81877 28 we have a support email address which is support@alarmgrid.com and if you come to our website www. alarmgrid docomo to use any of those to reach out to us if you did like the 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