Safety Monitor

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So Iā€™m finally at a point to start using the Safety Monitor feature.

However, Iā€™m not certain how to activate it/deactivate logically.

  • both my wife and I are not home, and thereā€™s no motion. Activate Away.

(This scenario wonā€™t work. We have other people during the day that come and go.)

  • Bed time routine. Activate Night that only watch contact sensor.

(What if I need to run out to grab something from my car? Then a siren goes off because I open a door)

These are some examples. Iā€™m wondering how other people are using the safety feature.

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I have it setup to use ā€˜Presenceā€™ for my Wife and my, comings and goingā€™s during the day and 95% of the time it works great.
That ā€œotherā€ 5% is for lose things like ...I had a sensor fall of the crawl space door and that caused a few false messages, activations etc.
At night, sure, when you have to break the perimeter you have to change the mode or have some means of deactivating ā€œtheā€ sensor your going to trip.

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This would work, but we have other people coming and going without any presence setup for them.

I wonder if getting these people key fobs would help? With key fobs, do you have to press a button or will Hubitat see it join the network the second you walk up to the house?

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How do these other people get in and out of the house? Do you have smart locks or keypads setup? You could set rules that arm/disarm the system based upon when a smart lock is opened by a code or a keypad code is used.

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No I do not. I've stayed away from smart locks. I just don't trust them. :slight_smile:

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LOL, fair enough (mine have never failed me, but I make sure to always buy them with keys just as a backup).

You could do key fobs, or if these are people known to you, some sort of presence based upon their phones (using Life360 or something like that).

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I can't imagine them being comfortable with me seeing where they are. :slight_smile:

I think it boils down to two options really.

  • Tablet on wall
  • Keyfobs
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A tablet could work as well along with the dashboard. I tend to stay away from key fobs (I have two right now) just because they are battery suckers and when the battery gets low (<50%) then tend to misreport on some models (SmartThings in particular). There are battery "mods" that can be performed on these, but carrying them then becomes a PITA.

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You could also see if you can find an Iris v2 keypad on ebay

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Keyad is probably the easiest and most logical way to arm/disarm @mik3. I have a keypad at every entrance, multiple wall mount tablets, phone dashboards and still have false alarm once.