Email/Cell Phone Messages
Your system may be programmed at installation to send a variety of messages to your personal email and cell phone.

The message option uses your security system’s reporting capability to send reports using an email address or cell phone number in much the same way as someone sending an email would do. You can receive reports of alarms, troubles, or system armings and disarmings and know at a glance your system status.

Text Messaging Commands
Your system may be programmed to allow simple text messages to be sent to the security system and perform basic user operations. By texting a message from your cell phone, the following actions can be performed: Arm/Disarm, check Armed Status, Cancel Alarm, and turn Outputs On/Off. See Appendix D for more information.

Arming
This is the term used for turning on the burglary protection in one or more areas of the system. Your system may require you to enter a user code. When armed, the system can sound alarm sirens and, if monitored, send alarm reports to a central station when a burglary zone is faulted.

Fire, panic, and other 24-hour devices are always turned on and do not need to be armed.

Disarming
This means turning off one or more areas of the system. When disarmed, the system does NOT sound alarms or send alarm reports to a central station when a burglary zone faults.

Zone
A zone refers to a protected opening or protection device assigned to a zone number. Each door or window, motion detector, smoke detector, or other device has a zone number and a name.

Entry or Exit Zone
Almost all systems have one or more doors through which you can enter or exit the premises. These doors are programmed with a delay time to allow you to enter or exit while the system is armed without setting off the alarm.

When you arm the system, activity on all burglary zones is ignored until the programmed exit delay time expires. Once that time has expired and the system is fully armed, opening the door causes the panel to start the entry delay time. During the entry delay time, enter a valid user code to disarm the system or an alarm occurs.

Instant Zone
Exterior windows and non-entry doors, or interior protection devices, are typically not programmed with delay times. If these zones fault while the system is armed, an alarm occurs instantly.

24-Hour Zone
A 24-hour zone is not turned on or off by arming or disarming your system. Some examples of 24-hour zones are fire zones, panic zones, and temperature control zones.8 XTL User’s Guide Introduction

Areas
An area is made up of burglary zones that can be armed or disarmed together. The Perimeter area, for example, consists of all the doors and windows on the outside of the building. When you arm the Perimeter, these zones sound an alarm if tripped.

Central Station Monitoring
Your system can be programmed to automatically send alarm, trouble, and arming and disarming reports to a central station. Operators at the central station can then dispatch the appropriate authorities or contact you with the specific event information.