Can You Stop Audible Alarm?

cm11599ps

cm11599ps

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I set up an alarm event if my temperature gets too high and it just went off today. I got the alarm sound from my display unit as well as a text on my phone. No problems there.

The only problem I have is that I had to actually disable the alarm sound on my display unit to get it to stop beeping. That's because my temperature is still too high. I hit a button on the display unit and it stops beeping but then picks up again a minute or so later.

Any fix for this?
 
I ended up raising the limit on the temperature so it stopped. Luckily I was home so I could do that, but if I wasn't then it would drive my wife nuts. There's no easy way to just hit the display and have it stop beeping? Maybe I programmed something wrong?


Set OFF
If Temp > 81.0 Then ON
If Temp < 75.0 Then ON
Defer 001:00 Then OFF
 
cm11599ps said:
I ended up raising the limit on the temperature so it stopped. Luckily I was home so I could do that, but if I wasn't then it would drive my wife nuts. There's no easy way to just hit the display and have it stop beeping? Maybe I programmed something wrong?


Set OFF
If Temp > 81.0 Then ON
If Temp < 75.0 Then ON
Defer 001:00 Then OFF
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You need to set the outlet to manual off until the conditions are false to keep it from sounding continuously. If you have the breakout box, you could use a doorbell as a "mute" switch and have it force the outlet state to off for a period of time.

Edit- I suppose you could set one of the feed cycles to a long period of time and use that to force it off...
 
Wow, that kind of stinks that there's no easy method of shutting it off. So if I'm not home and it goes off then my wife will go nuts.
 
cm11599ps said:
Wow, that kind of stinks that there's no easy method of shutting it off. So if I'm not home and it goes off then my wife will go nuts.
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Easiest way would be to teach her to activate feed mode D.
Change feed mode d's length to an hour or however long you want.

If FeedD 000 then OFF
 
Lol, I could teach her but how do I go about teaching my two dogs if we aren't home?

I have one alarm sound if it something goes a little higher or lower than it should and another if things get really whacky. Maybe I'll skip the warning one and only have the apex beep in extreme situations.
 
Still playing around with things.

This is the current code my my alarm
Switch1 is to control my sump level, Switch2 is for backup.

Set OFF
Fallback OFF
If Switch1 CLOSED Then OFF
If Switch1 OPEN Then ON

Then this is the code for my Top Off Pump

Fallback OFF
Set OFF
If Switch1 OPEN Then ON
If Switch1 CLOSED Then OFF
If Switch2 CLOSED Then OFF


I had this and it seemed to work fine. Then it went to top off about 30 minutes later and the water pump worked correctly but the alarm kept going off. I had to set the alarm to manual off to shut it off.

It's been an hour or so and I just set the alarm to auto again and now it's silent.

I have no intention of keeping the alarm on when topping off in the long run. I just want it on now until I get a feel for things. I also plan to add additional time statements for my pump so it is not going on and off all the time.
 
How long have you given the alarm to silence? I've found it takes a minute for it to complete playing its tune. It's not immediate.
 
One recomendation I always make regarding switches is to configure them such that the safest condition occurs when OPEN. That is due to the fact that the default state is OPEN. So if the float were to become disconnected or a wire breaks it will result in an OPEN condition. For your Alarm outlet, that would turn it ON and alert you. However, the ATO outlet is a concern. If both switches were to be disconnected, the pump would run indefinitely. I would change it so the pump comes ON when Switch1 is CLOSED. For the backup, Switch2 OPEN to shut it OFF.

By the way, the Alarm will be ON whenever the pump is ON because that is how you have it coded. One thing you can do with the Alarm code is to add a Defer mm:ss Then ON. This would delay the alarm by minutes:seconds. So if the ATO normally takes 10 minutes to fill the sump, setting it greater than that would let you know that something unusual has occurred.

Todd
 
Thanks guys. I'm still trying to get a handle on things so I see what you're saying. So a fallback statement wouldn't have any effect if a wire comes loose from the BB?
 
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