Vacation mode interrupted.

[gazza]

I had a real situation where I wondered what might have happened.

THe alarm was in vacation mode, and had a program to turn on some lights for 2 hours in the evening.

A sensor tripped and set off the alarm (due to high wind) , so I dialed in and switched to security off, then bypassed the sensor, and switched back to vacation mode.

I did not know if the vacation program would continue  i.e. the lights would have been on, would it continue and then turn them off considering i had changed mode to off then back to vacation?

To be safe, I dialed in again, and used the control menu to turn off the lights. But I just wondered if interuppting the vacation mode would have messed up the program for that night at least?

 

[slychiu]

We have never had this question before, but that is a good one
When you disarm and go back into Vacation mode, the Vacation programs will start again, the old ones are ended

Say you have a vacation program which turns on the light at 7 PM to 8 PM and off in 2 to 3 hours
If you disarm and return to Vacation mode at 7:20 PM and the light had been switched on, the vacation program may try to switch on the light again if the randon time is after7:20 PM, and it would switch it iff as scheduled.
If at 7:20 PM the light was not switched on, it would swithc on before 8 PM and switch off as scheduled
Hence it would appear like the vacation mode ws not interrupted

[gazza]

Thanks for that. Is the OFFResponse triggered? as if not, I can see that possibly, with a vacation program of 7pm and 5 hours, and a reset at 9pm - if the vacation offreseponse is not triggered at reset, then the lights could remain on all night. Not a problem, as if that is the case, I will just put a check program that runs at midnight (which I guess I should have anyway, incase the x10 signal does not get through)

[slychiu]

No you are correct that the Off response would not be triggered in this case as the vacation program would not have started

[gazza]

Many thanks for the clarification