Telemic HouseControl - 1.2.1 Alarms

6 HouseControl User’s Manual version 4.8
1.2 Features
This section describes the basic features of HouseControl and their use. You will find the instructions for
the most usual functions from the HouseControl Quick Guide that comes with the unit. The HouseControl
Quick Guide is sufficient enough to get acquainted with the unit’s basic features.
1.2.1 Alarms
HouseControl monitors and secures your home with external motion sensors, door magnets, smoke and
moisture detectors, and temperature sensors. When one of the aforementioned sensors alarms or
internally monitored information calls for attention, HouseControl makes an alarm phone call and sends
detailed information about the cause that lead to the alarm in a text message to the specified users.
In most cases the alarm is sent to the first five phone numbers in the unit’s internal phone directory. In
some cases, however, the alarm is only sent to the main user (you) whose phone number is kept in
directory memory cell one (see 2.5.1). The most important alarms are emphasised by an alarm phone
call, which draws the user’s attention to the received text message. All users get their text messages and
phone calls roughly at the same time.
The following table lists all alarm channels embodied in the L-model HouseControl. Alarm channels 16
through 19 are reserved for measuring temperature so that the sensors measuring temperature inside
the house are placed first, and then a possible garage temperature sensor, and finally an outdoor
temperature sensor. Although the S-model HouseControl has fewer temperature sensors than the L-
model, the ones measuring room temperatures always come first in the list.
Column “Users” in the table lists the phone directory memory cells containing the phone numbers where
this alarm is sent. An alarm channel has a black dot in column “24h” if alarms are sent from this channel
even if the unit is in disable mode. The next column contains information about whether the alarm
channel is a so-called two-way alarm channel, which means that a text message is sent (and perhaps a
phone call is made) on both activation and deactivation of the alarm channel. Columns “SMS” and “Call”
reveal whether the alarm is forwarded as text messages or phone calls or both.