Managing Partitions
Managing Partitions
A partition is a limited area of the premises which operates independently from the other areas. Partitioning
a system can be beneficial if the property has outbuildings that need to be secured independently of a main
area or if the home has a separate apartment. Each partition can have its own keypad, or a keypad can have
access to all partitions. User access to partitions is controlled via access code. A master code can access the
entire system and partitions, while a user code is limited to assigned partitions.
Partitions
Keypads can be configured to control an individual partition or all partitions.
Note:
Access to this feature must be configured by installer.
Single Partition Operation
Single partition keypads provide access to alarm functionality for an assigned partition.
Single partition keypads behave as follows:
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Displays the armedset state of the partition.
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Displays open zones, if assigned to the partition the keypad is on.
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Displays bypassed zones and allows zone bypassing or creating bypass groups of zones assigned
to the keypad partition.
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Displays system troubles (system low battery, system component faults/tampers).
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Displays alarms in memory that occurred on the partition.
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Allows the door chime to be Enabled/disabled.
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System test (sounds bells/PGMs assigned to the partition).
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Label programming (zone, partition and user labels for the partition).
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Command output controls (outputs assigned to the partition, or global outputs such as smoke
detector reset).
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Temperatures.
Loaning a Keypad to Another Partition
The HS2TCHP Touchscreen Keypad can be loaned to operate on other partitions. When a keypad is loaned
to another partition, it will behave on the loaned partition as if it was originally assigned there. An access
code must be entered before loaning a keypad to another partition. An access code is also required to per-
form any function on that partition.
To Loan a Keypad to Another Partition:
1.
Select Options > Partition Status.
2.
Enter your access code.
3.
Select the partition to loan the keypad to. If the keypad is inactive for more than 30 seconds, it
will return to its original partition.
Global Keypad Operation
Once a valid access code is entered, a global keypad will display the status of any partitions that you have
permissions to. From this overview, you can loan the global keypad to a partition, arm all partitions or dis-
arm all partitions. The status of each partition will be identified by a partition status icon. For an explan-
ation of partition status icons, see the table below. The global arm and global disarm buttons will arm or
disarm all displayed partitions.
To Loan a Global Keypad to Another Partition:
1.
Select Partition Status.
2.
Select the partition to loan the keypad to.
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