security-system

[landlessness]

Background

Physical security systems control subsystems like locks, motion detectors, lighting and alarms.

Almost all alarm systems will have two different arming settings: Armed Away and Armed Stay. So what's the difference between Armed Stay and Armed Away? Armed Stay is designed for when you plan on arming the system and staying in the home. We know, it's a clever name for it. As a result, Armed Stay will only activate your perimeter sensors such as door and window sensors and glass break detectors. Motion detectors will not be active in this mode so that you can walk around the home without tripping an alarm. Armed Away is for when you plan on arming the system and leaving the home. Again, an even wittier name. This mode will activate all zones and all sensors, including both perimeter sensors and interior zones such as your interior motion sensors. Of course, both of these modes depend on your alarm's settings and your zone configuration and may vary so feel free to call us if you need help.

source: AlarmGrid

Proposed Identifier

• security-system

  Proposed States

• disarmed
• armed-away
• armed-stay
• arming
• disarming

  Prior Art

[landlessness]

I added two new states @rogerstrunk & @chadalderson: arming and disarming

You can think of them as transition states. other approaches I've seen use an animation of pulsating radio waves to show that the device is in communication with the cloud to convey that the state is in the process of changing. I'd rather we not use animation tho.

[rogerstrunk]

Would it make sense to have a transition for all three of our previous states, addressing both of the "armed" situations? Also, I like the idea of waves showing device communication and that it is in the act of changing. I don't think it needs to animate to convey this. @landlessness @chadalderson

[landlessness]

good call @rogerstrunk. that design looks great. i will adjust the API to have arming-away and arming-stay instead of just arming.