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Find answers to your questions
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Installing Your System
- Downloading the Mobile App
- Unboxing Your System
- Connecting To WiFi
- Welcome Letter
- Adding Sensors
- Understanding Zone Types
- Testing Your System
- Adding Smart Home Devices
- Adding Video Devices
- Managing User Codes
- How Do I Set Up Rules, Scenes, and Schedules?
- Managing Notifications
- Rebooting the Interactive Panel
- Creating System Event Notifications
- Interactive Touchscreen Overview
- How to Arm and Disarm Your System
- Arming Modes and Options
- How Do I Cancel An Alarm?
- Panic Buttons
- Geo-Services
- Bluetooth Touchless Disarming
- Two Factor Authentication
- Deleting A Device
- How to change or reset password
- Highlights
- Mobile App vs Web Portal Experience
- Alarm.com Knowledgebase
- Video Analytics
- Video Ground Zones and Trip Wires
- Video Recording and Rules Notifications
- Viewing Saved Video
- Streaming Live Video to the Touchscreen
- Video Cloud Storage
Testing Your System
From your Alarm.com mobile app:
- Tap the MORE icon in the lower right hand corner.
- Scroll down and select "Monitoring Settings" and then "System Test Mode".
- Choose the amount of time you would like your system to be on test and select "Confirm".
- Arm your system and begin to trip all of the sensors you are testing
- Keep in mind that wireless motion sensors will have a 3 minute delay after detecting motion before detecting motion again.
- Allow the alarm to transmit for more than 30 seconds
- Disarm your system
- To take your system off of test, repeat the first 3 steps of the process.
- Your system will be automatically taken off of test once the selected amount of time has expired.
Updated on 30 Aug 2023