The Qolsys IQ Panel 4: Instant Arming

[AUDIO LOGO] Hi, DIYers. This is John with Alarm Grid. Today I'm going to show you how to do instant arming on a Qolsys IQ four panel. Now, let me show how you put this panel into an instant arm and how it will behave. First of all, you need an entry exit zone. So here is the simplest one you can have, a read switch in a magnet. See, it opens and closes. OK. So touch the button here, you touch this edge over here, here we go. Entry delay is off. Now, press arm stay from here don't go backwards. Now, we're armed up in instant mode going to open our door. Door is open, goes right into alarm without any entry exit. Countdown. Partition1 office front door open. Partition1 disarmed. Now, something that I would like to explain here and clear up is most people misunderstand what instant arm means. Many people think that means you hit the button and the panel arms instantly, that's not what it means. In the alarm system industry it's a very specific word for a specific alarm function. What it means is that normally if you have a system armed up and you come in and go through an entry exit point, you'll start to get say 30 or 60 seconds of beeping before the alarm goes off to give you a chance to disarm it. That's fine, but suppose you're home alone at night, you're the only person there, but you're not expecting anyone to be coming through the entry exit point, you want to probably arm it up in an instant. Now, what that means is if it's armed in instant mode when someone comes through an entry exit point, there will be no delay, it'll go right into alarm. Meaning nobody has any business coming into the house from any point, the whole house is armed, everything's a perimeter. So that's how you get a Qolsys IQ four panel into instant armed mode. Questions, you can email us at support@alarmgrid.com. Our website is alarmgrid.com. If you found this video helpful, like, subscribe, hit the bell icon for notifications. This is John with Alarm Grid. Have a great day.