Been playing around with HSM to replace some rules I'd made long-hand. I really like it. However because I use an Aeotec 6 chime/siren for other things and set the volume to around 50% for those operations, when I tested the siren as an HSM alarm, it's not loud enough to disturb my neighbours anywhere near as much as I'd like
Is it possible to set the siren volume inside HSM? I don't see a way. If I have to set it at the end of every other use of the siren it's a bit of a pain (multiple rules to edit, have to then reset also at the start etc.)
Maybe we could have a siren volume command built into HSM if indeed it is not possible today?
Instead of having the siren beep in each individual rule you could have one rule that sets the volume to 50%, performs the beep, then sets the volume back to 100% after a delay. Then, instead of beeping the siren, you would call this rule from your other one. That way, if you want to change the way the beep works, you only have to change it in one place rather than everywhere the beep is used. The only disadvantage to this is that you can't tell what rules call to one another. There is no "in use by" for rules calling other rules. The only way is to know or go through and check them.
One other thing I can't get working with HSM....maybe you guys or others can assist. When I get home, I have RM automatically disarm the system based on a virtual switch related to our presence. That is working nicely. I used the option to 'disarm' rather than 'disarm all' because I want to still keep the water and smoke detectors armed. I noticed this worked nicely. Then tonight I check and found that HSM was entiredly disarmed. I checked the set-up in the HSM app and saw a button which allows the Smoke/Water to be re-armed but when I click on it, after a short second or so of the whirling wait icon top right, nothing changes. It still shows "All monitoring disarmed".
Yes, it should reset them. Did you try refreshing the page after you clicked on the button? Right now you can't even arm any of the intrusion monitoring. I never use disarm all because I want to leave the other things armed as well. Did you change any of the options with smoke or water? That might be why they are not allowing you to arm them.
Yes, I did try a refresh. No change. Will try it again and play with it some more and see if I can find a way. I didn't change the Water or Smoke sections tonight, they are still the same as when I set them up earlier today. Maybe I will try just going into them and resaving them again afterwards. Ho-hum. Hope I can get it working properly.
I ran the rule which re-arms the system and that worked. I first set the siren volume to 5 (it's 1.30 am here lol) Then I ran the rule which disarms and it correctly just disarmed the intrusion and left the smoke and water running. But I think earlier I used a button to disarm, set-up inside HSM, and I think that disarms everything (smoke and water included, it doesn't seem to allow a button to just disarm intrusion as far as I can see?). So this would be the reason why the whole system was disarmed. But that button in HSM should still re-arm water and smoke I think but definitely wasn't doing that for me. Will have to try the whole sequence again to check...
Click on that and everything is then correctly disarmed and the problem button appears again to re-arm water and smoke and allow intrusion to be re-armed. But again, it does nothing.
Then I ran the rule which disarms and it correctly just disarmed the intrusion and left the smoke and water running. But I think earlier I used a button to disarm, set-up inside HSM, and I think that disarms everything (smoke and water included, it doesn't seem to allow a button to just disarm intrusion as far as I can see?). So this would be the reason why the whole system was disarmed. But that button in HSM should still re-arm water and smoke I think but definitely wasn't doing that for me. Will have to try the whole sequence again to check...
