Alarm com: Enabling Manually Triggered Warning Sounds

hey diyers Dylan here with alarm grid uh today we're going to review how to activate the warning sound on an alarm.com camera uh we have the v515 uh and not all the cameras have this feature mainly the ones that offer the two-way audio do we have a list of these cameras on our website as well as the firmware that they need to be on for it to function uh but essentially going to show you how to enable this option here that's activated through the live view of the camera so if you are viewing your camera or if you get a notification that the camera is detected movement and you open up your live view on either the alarm.com app or the website you can activate that warning sound to scare away any potential Intruders all right so here we are on the alarm.com website uh the camera that we're using is the v515 uh so what we're going to do is we're we are going to access the video section just going to load in our camera to make sure that is online and it is and there is James right so we will go to settings uh we're going to go to video device info and now here's our camera information uh so this specific camera we have the other firmwares for the other cameras that have this option listed on our website but for the v515 uh we need to be on firmware 5546 or higher we're on 5549 uh if you need to update you'll have an update option here and then you'll scroll down and you'll see the call volume option if you do not see this option here contact your monitoring company so they can enable this feature for you uh so right here it says disable warning sounds uh we do not want that disabled we want that enabled so we're going to leave that unchecked we're going to go back to our camera just to test that I'm going do it again all right so we have James here we want to keep him away from us so I'm going to go ahead and click the warning sound Perfect all right so we scared James away we got him far away from us and now we are safe and sound okay so that is how you enable this and access it through the alarm.com website we will now go over to the application and access it from there as well all right so we're on the alarm.com application now uh so even though we already know the feature is enabled we'll just double check through the app so we will go to video we'll go to settings on the top right we're going to select our camera we'll go to alerts wait for this to load okay camera audio alert is enabled and our volume is all the way up so we'll go back to video all right we're going to load into our camera here activate the live view hello okay and we are going to go ahead and activate the siren all right perfect so that is how you activate the camera siren through the application as well uh again we already have the feature enabled and by default it's going to be enabled uh so if you try to test this out and it's not working just be sure to check that setting and verify that that it is in fact enabled so you can then activate it through the live view option through either the application or the website okay so that is how you enable the warning sound on your alarm.com camera again we have a full list of the compatible cameras that have this feature uh as well as if they need to be on a specific firmware or not you can update the firmware through alarm.com either through the website or the applic and you can enable this feature and access it also through the website or the application um again you also need to have the audio feature enabled for these cameras that's not always enabled by default so if you're on alarm.com and you're not seeing the uh option to enable that siren sound contact your monitoring company they can pull up your account and get that enabled for you very easily if you like the video please like the video subscribe to our YouTube channel and be sure to hit the Bell icon to be notified about any future videos we release if you had any questions for us feel free to contact us our phone number is 888 81877 28 our uh email address is support@alarmgrid.com and if you come to our website www. alarmgrid domcom we have a live chat option on there as well so uh feel free to use any of those options contact us and we'll be happy to assist you again my name is Dylan and thank you for watching