Qolsys IQ Panel 4: Accessing Remotely

hey DIY Dylan here with alarm grid today we're going to review how to get remote access to your iq4 panel uh so to do this you are going to need to contact a uh an Alarm Monitoring company such as ourselves alarm grid uh as they need to set this up with the alarm.com service you cannot set this up without going through a company and that service is not free we do get a lot of questions about that uh so just want to mention that uh so for example if you sign up with our company alarm grid we offer this through our gold and platinum level plans uh and that will essentially get you access to alarm.com so you can access the system from either a web browser or a smartphone through an application we're going to go over what information you'll need from the panel that you'll Supply to your company so they can then get that set up with the alarm.com service essentially you're going to need the IMEI number from the system uh so let's come over here and I'll show you okay so we have our iq4 panel here uh we want to get the remote access so we've gone through a company such as alarm grid uh we signed up for a plan which offers the alarm.com service and now we need to supply them with the IMEI number so uh couple couple ways you can get that number first pretty simple if you just look at the back back of the panel here the IMI number is listed on the bottom left it's this long number after it says IMI you'll just Supply them with this number here now say if you've already installed the panel onto your wall and you don't want to take it down to access that uh you can also get that through the programming menu of the system so we will turn on the system here we'll press the top bar at top there we'll go to settings advanced settings we're going to enter our uh installer code here which is still the default so that is 11 one1 we'll go to about and then cellular because a cellular connection is required to set this up even though the panel can do Wi-Fi that's an optional secondary path uh cellular is always primary and if you want to be set up with alarm.com cellular is required so after we press the cellular option on info it is listed right there IMEI that's the same number that's on the back of the system so either way whichever is easiest for you just get that number provide it to your company they're going to use that to then register the system connect this with alarm.com so you can then access the system remotely all right so we've gone through the sign up process through our website we've provided the IMEI number during the sign up process and our technicians were able to create the account and then get the alarm.com login email sent to us so when you get the email this is essentially what it's going to look like it'll say welcome to alarm grid and then you'll have the login name for alarm.com showing there and then we'll have the get started option here and then we can also confirm down at the bottom says powered by alarm.com so we know for sure this is going to be our login email so let's get started so first click get started that's going to pull up the alarm.com website there's going to be a terms of service here which we will agree all right so the next step is to create the password I'm just going to use a simple temporary password for us we'll set a confirm password Here and that you see we do have requirements that must be met uh must contain at least one number one symbol one letter and be at least 10 characters long so we have met all these requirements we're going to save okay security question typical security questions you'll get for pretty much majority of your websites I'm going to do a make of my first car and I had a nice Volvo confirm okay so this is the essential first login page here Let's do let's go our system name iq4 you can name this really whatever you'd like here's some examples my home vacation home office and Rental I'll put this as iq4 office okay uh just more typical questions about the property so in this case we'll just leave it as single family home since it's just a test but we do have the option for townhouse apartment condo and business primary residence yes or no again we'll just keep it as yes and one adult lives here with four pets property area say about 0 to 1,000 square feet and who is our electrical provider since we are in Florida setting this up I'm going to put Florida Power and Light and you have the option to share outage information for now I'm just going to unclick that since again this is just a test account okay arming reminder notification uh you can basically set up for alarm arm.com to notify you if the system has not been armed at a certain time we can set up a schedule for this uh we'll just leave it as the default here so when the system has not been armed by let's say 11:30 p.m. on these selected days during the week we want a uh notification to be sent to our email and this is our general contact email as well so feel free to email us with any questions you do have the option to add other options as well to this so we have our email address here but you can put phone numbers and then once you set up the application you can set up push notifications as well and then something else very important is if we want to receive this notification we have to set it to active Okay so everything's looking good next these are General notifications that are set up by default alarm events pretty uh self-explanatory if the alarm is triggered you're going to get that notification action any userkey fob uh so if a user uses their code at the panel or key fob to arm or disarm the system we'll be notified about that as well uh this is good if you have multiple users set up with the panel so you can know exactly what date and time the panel is armed or disarmed and by who arming reminder that's kind of the the previous screen we were reviewing there so if our system is not disarmed on weekdays by 11:30 p.m. we're going to get notified so we can log into alarm.com and then arm the system and then system actions to watch uh this is more error notifications so as you see here it says power failure communication restored etc etc so if there's something going on with the system that's not an alarm or an arming event and we have a sensor failure power failure lost connection to alarm.com anything like that we're going to get notified okay so devices so if you have uh devices set up with your system since this is just a demo we don't really have much set up with ours so the only thing showing for us is the panel camera uh the panel camera for the system can be activated when there is an arm or disarm and when there is an alarm activated as well there's a camera on the system that'll take a screenshot okay and this is just user code review uh we'll just set it as the default of yes continue okay we're all set to go let's get started and get logged into alarm.com all right so when you first log into alarm.com you're going to get this get started screen this is going to give you a general walkthrough of alarm.com uh what features it offers how to customize it to better suit your needs so on and so forth so this is just going to be a quick summary here the homepage and then we'll just explore on your own so automation if you have zwave devices uh hooked up with your system this is going to be devices such as lights locks thermostats any home automation zwave device it'll pull up here so you can create rules for these smart scenes so say if I arm my system to arm away I can set up a scene here to turn on some lights lock my door change my thermostat temperature okay so that is how you set up a remote service for the iq4 panel uh we located the IMEI number from the system either on the back of the system itself or through the settings options uh and then we got that registered with our company they set us up with the alarm.com account and now we have access to the system remotely when we're not at home if you 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