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False Alarm Prevention
Many false alarms are caused by minor problems, such as a door left ajar when exiting the home.
Lyric™ includes several features to help prevent false alarms. Note that some are optional or must
be programmed by the installer. Disabling these features may increase security, but might also
increase the chance of false alarms.
Your installer can help you decide how to use and customize these features. A brief explanation
of false alarm prevention features follows, along with advice on what to do if false alarms occur.
Exit/Entry
Delays
Programmed delay times allow you to leave after arming the system or disarm it
after entering without setting off an alarm. Exceeding a delay period causes an
alarm.
After a false alarm, disarm the system and contact your monitoring company.
They will verify your security code or password, preventing unnecessary calls for
emergency response.
Alarm Reporting
Delay
Lyric is programmed to wait for a brief period between sounding a burglary
alarm on the premises and sending an alarm message to your monitoring
company. This delay allows you to disarm the system before an alarm message
is sent in error.
Exit Alarms False alarms can be caused by leaving the house and forgetting to close the
door. If this happens, Lyric sounds an alarm and displays an Exit Error.
The alarm reporting delay gives you time to disarm the system before an alarm
message is sent.
Exit Time
Restart
Exit Delay
Restart/Reset
If you leave the premises and enter again before the exit delay has expired, the
exit delay restarts, giving you more time to leave without causing an alarm.
With 10 seconds left to exit, the Controller begins beeping quickly, indicating that
an alarm will occur if you don’t exit or disarm the system immediately.
If this occurs, disarm the system and arm it again when you are ready to leave.
You can restart the Exit Delay by pressing Restart Timer.
Silent Exit Press Silent Exit to mute the beeping sound that accompanies exit countdowns
in most situations. Voice confirmation of arming status is not muted. Silent Exit
increases the Exit Delay time.
Quick Exit If the system has been armed and someone needs to leave the premises, you can
press this button, which restarts exit delay, allowing exit from the premises
without the need to disarm and re-arm.
Entry Delay If the system is armed, this is the period allowed between a door opening and the
system being disarmed with a user code. Failure to disarm the system during the
Entry Delay causes an alarm. Delay period set by your installer.
Exit Delay Period that begins upon arming the system, during which household members
can exit through entry/exit doors without triggering an alarm. Delay period set by
your installer.