Housewatch manuals

Keypad cheat sheet

• Arm (away)your code

  • Close all doors and windows first.
  • Key in your four-digit code to full set (arm). The sounder gives a steady or pulsing tone.
  • Leave by your exit door. The system sets once the exit time is up.
  • An open detector stops it setting: the sounder pulses and that zone's light comes on. Press # to cancel, close it, then try again.

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• Arm while homeyour code*6oryour code*0

  • Home set arms only the part your installer chose, such as downstairs, so you can move about upstairs.
  • Key in your code, then * and 6. The tone changes and the lights of the zones left off flash.
  • The system is set once the exit time is up.
  • Part set (code, * then 0) is like Home set but gives one more entry/exit zone, for when you must pass through two zones, such as to reach upstairs.

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• Disarmyour code

  • When you come in, the sounder gives a steady tone. Go straight to the keypad.
  • Key in your code. The sounder stops and the DAY light comes on.
  • In the last ten seconds of entry time the tone turns to short, high beeps.

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• Bypass a zoneyour code*zone

  • Each detector or door contact is a zone. The Active 5 calls bypassing isolating, and only zones your installer allows can be isolated.
  • Key in your code, then * and the zone number (1 to 5).
  • That zone's light flashes and the exit time starts. The rest of the system sets as usual.
  • Unsetting cancels every isolation, so isolate again the next time you set.

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• Alarm memoryyour codethenyour code#

  • After an alarm, key in your code. The sounder stops.
  • The light of the zone that set the alarm off first stays on. Other zones that tripped flash.
  • To reset, key in your code again. A two-tone sound starts: press # and it stops, and the red lights go out.

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• Chime on or offyour code*95zone

  • Chime works only on zones your installer set up as chime zones.
  • Key in your code, then *, 9 and 5. The lights of the chime zones come on.
  • Press a zone's number to switch its chime on or off, such as 3 for zone 3.
  • A chime zone opening gives a short two-tone beep at the panel. Once the system is set, chime zones go back to being alarm or entry/exit zones.

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• Change a codeyour code*91new code

  • The Active 5 has one user code, four digits long.
  • Key in your code, then *, 9 and 1. The four right-hand lights come on.
  • Key in the new four-digit code. A light goes out with each digit.
  • Three high tones: the new code is in use. Two low tones: that code wasn't accepted, so try a different one.

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• Test the systemyour code*9

  • Key in your code, then * and 9.
  • Every light comes on for 10 seconds, then the buzzer sounds for 5 seconds.
  • Then the outside (satellite) siren and the inside siren sound.

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