# Alarm: check that everything is closed before arming, and be able to ignore a sensor

**URL:** <https://community.gladysassistant.com/t/alarme-verifier-que-tout-est-ferme-avant-darmer-et-pouvoir-ignorer-un-capteur/10840>\
**Category:** Demande de fonctionnalités\
**Created:** [September 8, 2026, 8:06pm UTC](https://community.gladysassistant.com/t/alarme-verifier-que-tout-est-ferme-avant-darmer-et-pouvoir-ignorer-un-capteur/10840 "2026-09-08T20:06:39Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 8, 2026, 8:06pm UTC](https://community.gladysassistant.com/t/alarme-verifier-que-tout-est-ferme-avant-darmer-et-pouvoir-ignorer-un-capteur/10840/1 "2026-09-08T20:06:39Z")

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### The Need

With around fifteen opening detectors, it regularly happens that a window is left ajar when arming. Today, Gladys arms without saying anything. Two possible outcomes, both bad: either the siren goes off immediately, or — worse — the house is armed with an unprotected opening and no one knows.

A classic alarm system refuses to arm in this case and states why.

### What is Expected

- Before arming, Gladys checks the status of the sensors concerned by the requested mode.
- If one of them is not available, arming is interrupted and the list of faulty sensors is displayed, with the name and the room.
- Three outcomes: cancel, retry after closing, or arm anyway by disabling these sensors.
- A sensor thus ignored remains visible as long as the alarm is armed — it’s a hole in the protection, it must not be hidden.
- The disabling is temporary: it disappears at the next disarming, it does not get forgotten in a corner of the configuration.

### What it Would Look Like

```auto
┌─ Armement impossible ────────────────────────────┐
│ │
│ 2 capteurs ne sont pas disponibles : │
│ │
│ Fenêtre cuisine Cuisine ouverte │
│ Porte garage Garage ouverte │
│ │
│ [Annuler] [Réessayer] │
│ │
│ [Armer en les ignorant] │
└──────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

```

```auto
┌────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ Alarme — Maison │
│ │
│ ● Armée — Absence │
│ │
│ ⚠ 1 capteur ignoré │
│ Fenêtre cuisine │
│ │
│ ┌────────────────────────────────────┐│
│ │ Désarmer ││
│ └────────────────────────────────────┘│
└────────────────────────────────────────┘

```

### Questions to Decide

1. **Blocking or Warning?** Refusing to arm by default is safer, but may be seen as annoying by those who have a capricious sensor. Should there be a setting?
2. **Who has the right to force?** Everyone, or should a code / an administrator account be required to ignore a sensor?
3. **When does the disabling fall off?** Only at disarming, or also as soon as the sensor becomes available again — the window is closed ten minutes later, it goes back under surveillance?
4. **And if no one is there to respond?** When arming comes from a scene or a keypad without a screen, there is no dialog box possible. What does Gladys do: arms by ignoring, refuses, or notifies?
5. Does an offline sensor or one with a dead battery count as «&nbsp;not available&nbsp;»?

### Complexity and Dependencies

Medium. Depends on the request [Alarm: declare monitored sensors and choose which ones are active in each mode](https://community.gladysassistant.com/t/alarme-declarer-les-capteurs-surveilles-et-choisir-lesquels-sont-actifs-dans-chaque-mode/10837).

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_This request is part of a set from the discussion [Gladys Alarm System](https://community.gladysassistant.com/t/systeme-dalarme-gladys/10808) (need F05)._