The Need
Gladys already waits before arming: it’s the exit delay, which gives time to leave the house. The symmetrical feature — the entry delay — is missing.
When you come home, opening the front door should not trigger the alarm immediately. You need a few tens of seconds to reach the keypad or your phone and enter your code. On the other hand, a window opening at the back of the house has no reason to benefit from the same delay: there, the triggering must be immediate.
Therefore, this setting should be adjustable down to the sensor — with a default value, so you don’t have to configure thirty sensors one by one.
What is Expected
- A default entry delay, applied to all monitored sensors.
- The possibility to redefine it sensor by sensor, including the value « immediate ».
- A visible state during the countdown, distinct from « armed » and « triggered », with the remaining time and the sensor concerned.
- Disarming during the countdown cancels everything, without anything being triggered.
- The countdown is usable in a scene — to make a keypad beep or announce the remaining time vocally.
What it Would Look Like
DELAYS
Exit Delay 30 s
Time left to leave the house after arming
Default Entry Delay 30 s
Applied to any sensor that does not have its own setting
Exceptions, per sensor + Add
──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Garage Door 45 s
Kitchen Window immediate
Living Room Motion immediate
┌────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ Alarm — Home │
│ │
│ ● Entry Delay 0:24 │
│ Front Door │
│ │
│ ┌────────────────────────────────────┐│
│ │ Enter the Code ││
│ └────────────────────────────────────┘│
└────────────────────────────────────────┘
Questions to Decide
- Does the delay also depend on the mode? Many control panels trigger immediately in night mode, even on the front door: no one is supposed to come in at 3 a.m. Should there be a delay per sensor and per mode, or a delay per sensor with a « immediate in night mode » checkbox?
- What happens during the countdown? If another sensor, without a delay, is triggered during the 30 seconds — the intruder entered through the door then crossed the living room — does the alarm sound immediately, or does the countdown continue?
- Should the exit delay also become adjustable per mode?
- If a timed sensor is still open at the end of the exit delay, what does Gladys do?
Complexity and Dependencies
Medium. Depends on the request Alarm: declare monitored sensors and choose which are active in each mode: the delay is a setting carried by the alarm sensor, it does not exist before it.
This request is part of a set from the discussion Gladys Alarm System (need F04).