Quick Tip: Base Station’s Blue Light Provides Your Alarm Status

Posted January 28th, 2010 by alex

By now many of you have grown familiar with the voice prompts and auditory cues your Base Station provides. Still some of you have asked: "Why is my Base Station flashing sometimes and glowing others?"

The blue light flashing visually prompts you to check your Keypad for warning details. One example is the flashing when your doors or windows are open. While the Base Station chimes once to alert you of an opening door or window, the flashing is continuous when that window or door remains open. This is particularly useful when you can't hear the chime. As one customer put it, "if I'm watching TV, vacuuming or listening to music that blue flashing really catches my attention."

Watch this customer submitted video describing the flashing blue light.

The Base Station also glows a steady blue to let you know your alarm is armed in either Home or Away mode. The best part is the blue light glows for you but not for burglars. When the system is armed and a door is opened the blue light shuts off to ensure all the attention is on the beeping keypad, leaving your Base Station free to discreetly count down the seconds before wailing and alerting our Emergency Dispatch Center of an intrusion.

Watch a customer video showing how the steady blue light offers a helpful visual cue.

Don't feel you want the blue light to catch your eye? Just disable it with your Easy Set-up Wizard.

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Question: if I turn on the

On March 9th, 2010 JTSargent says:

Question: if I turn on the system to "Away" from my car in the driveway with the remote, is there any way to confirm that the system is, in fact actually on? I am wondering in case I am too far away for the remote signal to trigger the "away" status.
Thanks much, John Sargent

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There are two ways to get

On March 9th, 2010 Chad says:

There are two ways to get confirmation that the alarm was armed, if you're already outside your house and can't check the keypad:

1) If you're within earshot, listen for the Base Station to announce "please exit now" when you press away or "alarm on" once the exit delay countdown is complete.

2) Look for the blue light from the Base Station. This will turn on solid once the exit delay countdown is complete and the alarm is on.

Hope that helps!

Chad

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Hi Chad, Neither options 1

On March 29th, 2010 JTSargent says:

Hi Chad,

Neither options 1 or 2 answer my question. If I am in my car in the driveway, how can I hear "please exit now" or "alarm on", your #1 above.

And as for #2, unless I put the base station in a front window so that it is visible from the driveway, I cannot see whether the light is solid blue or not. In our case, our base station is not visible from the outside, did it that way intentionally.

So my question remains: if I turn on the system to "Away" from my car in the driveway with the remote, is there any way to confirm that the system is, in fact actually on?

Thanks,
John

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Hi John, In that case, no I

On March 29th, 2010 Chad says:

Hi John,

In that case, no I don't thing there's any way to get confirmation from there currently. If you press away when you are within earshot of the Base, but need more time to leave, you could extend the exit delay. Would that help?

Also, when the extra siren comes out, you could install that in or near your garage. The extra siren will make exit delay beeps like the keypad does, so you should be able to hear those from your car if it is placed nearby. That way you would have confirmation that the system is armed.

Best,
Chad

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