Qolsys IQ Pro Smart Rules

[Stephan]

I want to activate a partition, once two motion sensors have not been activated in 3 hours.

I see pictures of Smart Rules in Alarm.com, but can’t find that in my (master) login.

Any advise?

[nicholas]

Smart Arming is not available for systems using partitions.

You can use the Auto-Rearming feature with the Arming Schedules add-on to arm a partition based on inactivity for a certain amount of time, but this takes all sensor activity in all partitions into consideration before arming a partition.

[Stephan]

Thanks for the reply. I am in shock. Such advanced systems and I can not do such a simple job.

[ryan.boder (Ryan)]

Qolsys and Alarm.com limit automations to what’s commonly used and keeps them pretty simple. That’s why we’re building this.

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We just recently posted an example of setting up an automation that’s based on multiple sensors. In your case you would program it to arm a partition instead of tripping a sensor.

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We can try to put together the automation you’re looking for if you want to try it. Let me know.

[Stephan]

Wow! What a project!

Let me try to get approval for that.

[ryan.boder (Ryan)]

Be aware it’s a brand new project that’s being developed. It comes with a warning that says, “IQ Mate is an open source project and a work in progress. It has not been thoroughly tested and is more a proof-of-concept right now. Use it at your own risk.”

That being said, it mostly just packages together things that are well-tested in a Docker container. It uses Node-RED (very well tested) and Qolsys Gateway (not as heavily used but it’s been around for a while).