Our typical usage pattern is that my wife uses the ‘sleep’ scene to arm away our system at night. We use “arm away” to activate the indoor motion sensors. Then in the morning, when I wake up and start to move my phone, the geofence causes the alarm to auto-disarm. This was a great system!
Then two days ago this stopped working. For some reason at night, my Samsung Android phone is auto-disarming the alarm at some random point in the night, first night was ~3 hrs after it was set; last night about 1.5hrs. I believe the phone OS had an update, so likely related.
However, I don’t see this as the phone’s fault, the ADC system should only change the alarm state when crossing a geofence boundary anyway. Ideally, what I’d really love is that when I take the phone out of “sleep” mode (an android capability), that is when it should auto-disarm the alarm.
Any tips on, at a minimum, (a) how do I resolve the auto-disarming at night, even if I have to manually disarm the alarm in the morning; or, ideally, (b) how I can have the phone disarm when it’s taken out of sleep mode and I’m within the geofence (to avoid it disarming while I’m traveling)?
However, I don’t see this as the phone’s fault, the ADC system should only change the alarm state when crossing a geofence boundary anyway. Ideally, what I’d really love is that when I take the phone out of “sleep” mode (an android capability), that is when it should auto-disarm the alarm.
The auto-disarming using your phone location is not using a geofence, it is bluetooth disarming using the bluetooth connection of the phone and panel.
If you have bluetooth disarming enabled on the panel, your phone’s bluetooth connection reconnecting to the panel will automatically disarm it from away.
This is intended for the purpose of returning from being away from the home, and if you arm away at night it is not recommended to use bluetooth disarming.
The issue is that the panel cannot tell why your phone reconnected to bluetooth. Your phone rebooting, applying an update, or bluetooth being interrupted for any other reason just looks like your phone is reconnecting from being away.
To stop this behavior you’ll want to disable bluetooth disarming. You can either delete your phones from the panel as a bluetooth device or change its setting to disable disarming automatically.
Thank you, Jason, this is super helpful info! I didn’t realize (obviously) it was bluetooth-based. I really enjoy the feature of the auto-disarm when I arrive back home. Given what you’ve said, I just reconfigured my sleep mode on android to disable bluetooth at night (no other BT-connection is necessary for me while sleeping). Hopefully this will help. If it doesn’t, Android has a more specific setting to disconnect from specific BT devices just at night, but I think this is easier for now.