How to Enable/Disable Non-Alarm Voice Messages

The voice annunciation feature of the M1Gold is helpful to keep the customer informed with the status of the system, as well as announcing reminders, etc.  However, it may be desired to temporarily disable the non-alarm voice announcements.  This can be accomplished with rules programming.

The voice announcements can be disabled based on time of day.  For example, it may be desired to disable the non-alarm voice message at night.  The rule below will disable the non-alarm voices at 10:00 pm .

WHENEVER THE TIME IS 10:00 PM
          THEN DISABLE NON-ALARM VOICE MESSAGES

In the following rule non-alarm voice messages are enabled at 6:30 am .

WHENEVER THE TIME IS 6:30 AM
          THEN ENABLE NON-ALARM VOICE MESSAGES

The following example shows how the non-alarm voice messages can be disabled using an F key.

WHENEVER F4 KEY ON ANY KEYPAD ACTIVATES
            THEN TOGGLE OUTPUT 100

WHENEVER OUTPUT 100 IS ON
            THEN DISABLE NON-ALARM VOICE MESSAGES

WHENEVER OUTPUT 100 IS OFF
            THEN ENABLE NON-ALARM VOICE MESSAGES

An unused or “phantom” output (Output 100 in this example) is used to indicate if the non-alarm voices are currently enabled or disabled.  The F key illumination event may be set to follow the state of this output, giving the user a visual indication of the state of the voice mode.

Note: Firmware version 4.2.7 or newer is required to enable/disable non-alarm voice messages.  

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