Pairing Sensors
Each sensor in your system needs to be paired with a mode and zone on the Keypad Alarm Control Unit. You can have multiple sensors in a single zone and/or zones with no sensors attached. If you choose, you can have all your sensors in the Home or Out modes, or a combination of both. We recommend a combination of both, as this adds functionality and value to your alarm system.
•Press the ZONE SET button and hold for approximately 6 seconds, until the Keypad Alarm Control Unit beeps twice.
•Press HOME if you’d like to assign a sensor to the Home Zone, or OUT if you want to assign the sensor be active to Out Mode.
•Press number on the keypad for the zone that you would like to assign the sensor to.
•Trigger the sensor you wish to assign to that zone.
•To confirm your selection, press the Zone Set button. The Keypad Alarm Control Unit will beep twice. Otherwise, the system will ‘time out’ after 40 seconds and discard your changes.
•Repeat this procedure until all your sensors have been assigned to their respective zones.
How many sensors can I assign to a single zone?
The short answer is: as many as you want.
The longer answer is: the Wireless Alarm System can support dozens wireless sensors at a time. The only limitation is due to the available bandwidth (number of radio frequencies) that the Wireless Alarm System can individually identify. As the Wireless Alarm System comes with only four sensors (two PIR motion sensors and two Window/Door Sensors) the bandwidth limitation won’t present an issue unless you dramatically increase the scope of your alarm system.
Any number of sensors can be paired to a single zone, up to the maximum number supported by the system. However, we recommend spreading them out over all eight zones, as this will allow you to more easily determine at a glance what sensors have been tripped and which have not.
Swann offers no guarantee that any third party sensors will be compatible with the Wireless Alarm System. In fact, we suggest that they probably will not be. There are many protocols and formats for alarm signals, most of which will not work with this system.
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