Alarm icon Configuring inputs

  • From the dashboard, go to Alarms.
  • In the navigation, select the relevant alarm input or system failure.
  • Click Edit and fill in the fields below.
  • Click Save.

Explanation of input fields

Screenshot EditAlarm

Alarm settings (left-hand side)

In use: enabled

An alarm is enabled by default. When you are not using an alarm input for an extended period of time, it is convenient to disable it. You do this by removing the tick.

Critical alarm via app

When an alarm is marked as critical, the Adesys Alarm app ignores the do not disturb, night mode and quiet or vibrate function of the phone and always alerts with a loud tone. The Critical alarm option is disabled by default.

  • Enable Critical alarm for urgent alarms by placing a tick.
  • Adjust the Waiting time between repetitions to the urgency of the alarm, e.g. 5 minutes.

Name

The name of an input is reflected in the logbook. Provide a clear name that reflects what the alarm protects. The copy (copy icon) button copies the name to the Alarm text field.

Alarm text

The alarm text is the text reflected in the alarm message and voice call. Using the play (play icon) button, the Octalarm alarm dialler speaks the alarm text.

Tip: when the alarm text does not sound clearly, it is wise to set the pronunciation of those parts of the alarm text phonetically. See The Portal: portal.octalarm.com|Pronunciation for further explanation.

Contact normal

Here you set whether the alarm is open (Normally Open) or closed (Normally Closed) when at rest.

Notifications: when to alert

Specify here when this alarm should become active. For non-critical alarms that you want to receive during the week only during the day, you can un-tick Night and In Weekend.

Delay before active

Delay before active is the number of seconds before an alarm starts the alarm procedure. This defaults to 5 seconds. To avoid false alarms, it is functional for some alarms to increase this delay. The maximum number of seconds is 3,600 (=1 hour).

Delay after recovery

The Delay after recovery is the number of seconds before an alarm is at rest. This defaults to 2 seconds.

Continue after recovery

By default, the Continue after recovery option is disabled. When Finish list is enabled, the Octalarm alarm dialler still continues to call after alarm recovery until the alarm is accepted.

Repeat after acceptance

An alarm can be repeated automatically when a call list is completed, such as by accepting the alarm. Enter the number of repetitions here.

Waiting time between repetitions

Here you set the delay for a new repeat. After being called, the alarm dialler waits the number of set minutes before restarting the alarm procedure.

Buzzer

By default, the buzzer is on. Removing the tick from the On at alarm field turns off the buzzer and any external buzzer for this alarm.

  • Select a call list by pressing the double arrows.
  • Select the desired call list or choose New....

After selecting desired call list

  • Click Save.

After selecting New...