Qolsys IQ Panel 4: Connecting an iPhone

hey diyers Dylan here with alarm grid today we're going to review how do I connect my iPhone to my IQ panel 4 uh so this is going to be done through the alarm.com service which is uh you're going to need to go through an alarm company such as ourselves to get that service connected it is not a free service and can only be set up through an alarm company so we're going to show you how to get the information from the panel that is needed for your alarm company to connect that with alarm.com uh we will have the account set up we're going to load the alarm.com application onto the iPhone connect through there and then just go over some basic features from alarm.com okay so when you're getting alarm.com set up for your IQ panel 4 uh first you'll want to get in contact with alarm company again we do offer this service as well uh if you are signing up with us if you check out our website alarm grid.com you'll see the monitoring pan uh monitoring plan page there and it's going to be the gold self gold platinum or self- platinum plans which allow that alarm.com Service uh the Platinum options are if you want to add video service for this as well and the gold plans are the basic options that get you alarm.com and a majority of the features with that service uh so when you get in contact with an alarm company and you're ready to get get this set up uh they're going to require the IMEI number from the system there's a couple ways to get this you can get it through programming which I'll show in just a moment here uh but you can also get it on the back of the panel it's listed right there at the bottom so uh let's show how to get this through the actual programming screen say if you already have the panel installed on your wall and you'll want to go through the process of taking it down so first things first we will press the gray bar at the top we're going to go to settings we'll go to advaned settings and to access this it is best to use the installer code RS is still set at the default of 1111 and then right here in the middle you see the about option we're going to press that and then since the IMEI is linked to the cellular communic in the panel we're going to press cellular and then you'll notice the IMEI is listed right there so you're going to want to write this down and provide this to your alarm company as this is what they're going to use to get them to get the system connected with alarm.com okay so as you see I already have the alarm.com app installed um but I'm going to show pretty quickly how to get this onto your phone so since it is an app we are going to go to the App Store we're going to press on search and we're going to type in alarm.com and then search so there is our alarm.com option here if you do not already have this download instead of open it's going to show get so you can uh basically after it is downloaded you can open it straight from the app store or you can go back to your homepage and select on the app from there as well so I'm just going to press open and this is going to bring us to the login page uh so now this information is what your alarm.com I'm sorry what your alarm company is going to set up for you so after you have the panel connected with your alarm company and they have the alarm.com service activated uh they will send you an email with how to log into that service uh we do have other videos showing more detail on what that email looks like but it's pretty basic it's going to show you the username and then you'll create a password from the email itself and when you do that you're going to do that first on a computer you cannot initially set up alarm.com through the app the app is more secondary after you have it set up through a computer so we have our alarm.com service activated so we're going to log in our username and we're going to enter in our password and then we're going to log in all right so when you first log in uh it's going to show your company name at the top since we have this set up with our company it's going to show alarm grid and then any new features that uh come up with alarm.com it will show you here so we're just going to press done not going to save the password for now and then also when you first log in it's going to show you a basic walkthrough of the application uh it's going to show you features from alarm.com it's going to review what you can do um but the service is pretty simple enough to to kind of go through so the main feature with alarm.com is that you can arm and disarm the system that's uh right here the security system option you can create scenes that's essentially going to um be a somewhat automated feature so you can set up times for certain actions to take place uh if you have any Z-Wave or automation devices connected with your system you can create scenes for those as well so say if I arm the system to arm a way I want my connected door locks to lock I want my lights to turn off and if I have this connected to a thermostat as well it can adjust the temperature uh while this is armed and then you'll create a second scene for disarming which will essentially do the reverse of those it'll unlock that lock it'll turn the lights back on and it'll adjust that temperature uh there are a few other options that you can set up with the automation feature and then if you also have cameras uh you can add these as well through the video option down here now when you are pairing the cameras you actually do pair them through the application you'll see the ad device option there and then it's going to walk you through that connection process so you'll see a bunch of alarm.com compatible cameras you'll select which one you have you'll press on it and then the application will give you a step-by-step walkthrough on how to get those connected we do also have another video reviewing how to connect those cameras so feel free to check that out uh you have the activity option here this is going to be what is going on with alarm.com and what is going on with the panel that is connected to this so when we scroll down here we'll see a bunch of actions that we've taken with our panel arming disarming uh trouble notifications when the Panic options are pressed so on and so forth okay uh so what we'll do here is we will go ahead and just test the arming feature so you'll see again security system when you press on that it's going to give you different types of arming options arm stay arm away and then you can adjust how the panel arms as well so Force bypass if we have any doors or windows that are open any sensors that are active since we're arming remotely we have the option to just bypass those automatically while we're arming um unless you know that it's certain doors or Windows or certain sensors you don't really care about being monitored it's not really suggested to do this too often um but again if you know that those zones are active and you're fine with it Force bypass is fine you can do bypass specific sensors so that will let us choose which sensors to bypass remotely uh no entry DeLay So if we arm this and the system is armed and say our front door is open usually that would give us a set time of a delay to get back to the panel to disarm it before the alarm goes off if you have no entry delay selected uh that is essentially going to bypass that delay and if that front door is open even if it's programmed to have a delay it will not have a delay and that is going to trigger the alarm right away uh silent arming so if we're doing arm away there's usually going to be an audible countdown uh that is associated with that that's going to let people inside know hey the alarm system is going to arm in this amount of time you can leave during this countdown delay without triggering the alarm uh but if we don't if we don't want that sound to go off we can select the silent arming option so I do have a trouble sensor on our panel here so I'm just going to do Force bypass I'm going to do arm stay it's going to show system is arming and then as we see on the panel uh we do have system arm stay and then we have a confirmation on the application as well and then when we press that it's going to show us the arm stay so we know it's armed and say we're coming back home or if someone needs to get in the home and we're out we're going to press disarm system disarming and then on the panel we have the system disarmed then we'll do this again for the arm away feature okay and then we have the audible countdown we have the countdown showing on the screen itself and then even while that that's in the countdown feature we can disarm system disarmed then we'll do that again with the silent arming so again we have the countdown but we don't hear those audible beeps so we're still going to get the delay we're just not going to have that beeping and again you can disarm even while it is arming all right so with scenes we can go into here you can create a scene so you can add an icon they have pre-selected icons here you can adjust the colors for them we'll just select if we were we select two wine glasses why not and I'll set the color to purple you'll add a scene name and then you'll select devices so this is going to show you all the devices that are paired with the system then you also see the security system option there as well the panel you can set it to an arming uh feature and then you can select select one of those options that we just saw earlier as well and now say if we were going to adjust a uh a zwave lock we have set up we can do that as well so I'm going to set that to lock and I'm also going to have it arm stay no entry delay say that we're inside and we want to be alerted right away we don't even want that delay going off and then we'll also Force bypass and then again you can add more devices as well so when you have more devices paired with your system and alarm.com you can add more of these to the scene so we're going to save shows us there in our list of scenes we're going to select it we're going to press run okay so we ran the scene we don't have our lock on camera but the lock is still paired I heard it arming well I heard it locking and you can see right there too locks locked we have the system arm stay our scene ran and now we can just disarm from the panel or I'm sorry we can disarm from the security system option here and now since we do not have another scene to disarm actually we do we have the home option so this is default so when you're creating a scene to arm the panel you'll want to create another scene as I mentioned to disarm the panel and undo any um of those zwave options there so what we'll do is we will just disarm from here as you see the lock is still locked since we don't have a scene so I'm going to unlock that okay I heard my lock and then it shows unlocked here and then what we'll do is we will create another scene real quick just to show that we are home and we are ready for everything to be disarmed we'll name it we'll add devices panel disarm that device the loocks we want that unlocked we save it okay so so now let's do that again so I'm going to run the first scene I created we have the armed on the panel we have the lock locked okay we're good with that and now instead of going through each of these individually I'm going to run the new scene we created that's going to disarm the panel and unlock the lock okay panel is disarmed and the lock is unlocked okay uh another cool feature is weather so when you're setting this up with alarm.com if you request through your alarm company that they activate the Weather Service you can view live weather stats and that'll also show on the panel as well some other options here as users right this is going to show any users that you have set up here you can also add a user new user you can set a code we're going to give it security panel access so I have the new user there it's showing that it's synchronizing devices so that is essentially getting that information sent to our alarm panel and now if you want someone else to have alarm.com you can actually set up information for them to receive this so you can either enter a phone number there can enter an email address can select the language options time so at all times restrict uh restricted schedule or temporary access so if we want this to expire at some point stict to schedule is obviously you select which days and which times that this is going to work then again you can change what this has the options to do so we'll come back to that while it syncs you can set up notifications as well so if I want to be notified so now my phone is going to going to get notifications from activity with panel and then critical alerts that's enabled even if the phone is on do not disturb that's going to override that and still send in any alerts and then here are some options for notifications that you can set up uh so pretty basic ones here alarm events action by any user so this is going to show when we disarm arm stay arm away you can adjust these can change the filtering option so you're not getting spammed with notifications and then you can change the uh uh who's going to receive the actual notifications so if you have more users on here you can add their information you can add more email addresses you can add phone numbers so we'll leave there and we will test that out all right there we go so we have a notification coming up alarm.com test panel is armed stay okay let's ackowledge that I'm going to [Music] disarm and then we have our notification popping up again alarm.com was disarmed okay uh so there are a lot more features that can be set up with alarm.com uh some other zwave automation options are irrigation control uh you can actually hook up Sonos audio equipment to this view them from the application uh if you have liftmas in MyQ that's going to be a garage door opener you can get that paired with alarm.com as well and control it through the app and many more other options there okay so we have our iPhone connected with our IQ panel 4 through the alarm.com service we made sure it's functioning and we went over some basic features of the alarm.com application as well if you did like this video please like the video subscribe to our Channel and 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 we have a phone number the phone number is 888 81877 28 we have a support email which is support@alarmgrid.com and if you go to our website www. alarmgrid dcom uh we have a Live support chat option on there as well so feel free to use any of those options to contact us and we'll be happy to help you again my name is Dylan from alarm grid and thank you for watching