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ADT Pulse Touch Screen User Manual

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  • Page 1 ADT Pulse Interactive Solutions Touch Screen User Guide...
  • Page 2 ECO6 ADTSESI03205, 11824 N. Creek Pkwy. #105, Bothell, WA 98011; 9 August 29, 2011 WV 014142. ©2013 ADT. All rights reserved. ADT, the ADT logo, ADT Always There and 1.800.ADT.ASAP are registered trademarks of ADT Services AG and are used under license.

  • Page 3: Table Of Contents

    ADT Pulse Interactive Solutions Touch Screen User Guide Contents Preface About This Guide Audience Typographic Conventions Overview of the Touch Screen Touch Input Home Screen Security and Modes Bar Power Modes Battery Active Mode Battery Sleep Mode Suspend Mode AC Power Connect Mode...
  • Page 4 ADT Pulse Interactive Solutions Touch Screen User Guide Clean Screen Screen Calibration Sounds Information Regional Settings Troubleshooting Index Page iv...

  • Page 5: Preface

    Preface ADT Pulse Interactive Solutions Touch Screen User Guide Preface About This Guide This document provides concepts and details about the advanced capabilities, services, and functions available with the touch screen and how to use them. Page v...

  • Page 6: Audience

    ADT Pulse Interactive Solutions Touch Screen User Guide Audience This guide is intended for users of the touch screen in conjunction with their security systems. Page vi...

  • Page 7: Typographic Conventions

    ADT Pulse Interactive Solutions Touch Screen User Guide Typographic Conventions This document uses the following typographic conventions to help you locate and identify information: Italic text Identifies new terms, emphasis, and book titles Bold text Identifies button names and other items that you can click or touch in the...

  • Page 8: Overview Of The Touch Screen

    Overview of the Touch Screen ADT Pulse Interactive Solutions Touch Screen User Guide Overview of the Touch Screen The interactive touch screen is a convenient device that helps you manage your security and automated home or business device management system. The easiest way to learn about the touch screen is to use it!

  • Page 9: Touch Input

    ADT Pulse Interactive Solutions Touch Screen User Guide Touch Input The touch screen provides an interactive experience for managing your site. It provides a simple, safe, and connected experience as a part of your security system. The feature and service icons appear on the touch screen. By touching an icon, button, or control displayed on the screen, you can directly access the corresponding feature and service.

  • Page 10: Home Screen

    ADT Pulse Interactive Solutions Touch Screen User Guide Home Screen The Home screen is the main screen of the touch screen. Press the Home button on your touch screen at any time to display the Home screen. The Home screen includes: Logo: A logo appears in the top left corner of the screen.
  • Page 11 ADT Pulse Interactive Solutions Touch Screen User Guide Security and Modes bar: Buttons and information along the bottom of the screen that provides status and functionality for your security system and the ability to view and change the mode via the Mode feature.

  • Page 12: Security And Modes Bar

    ADT Pulse Interactive Solutions Touch Screen User Guide Security and Modes Bar The bar along the bottom of the Home screen provides access to your security system. It allows you to view the current armed or disarmed status and it displays when sensors are triggered, for example, when a door opens, motion is detected, or a sensor has a low battery.

  • Page 13: Power Modes

    ADT Pulse Interactive Solutions Touch Screen User Guide Power Modes Some touch screens require AC power, and some are equipped with a battery back up that allows operation to continue for a short period when power becomes unavailable. If your touch screen requires AC power, it is always in AC Power Connected mode when it is plugged in.

  • Page 14: Ac Power Connect Mode

    ADT Pulse Interactive Solutions Touch Screen User Guide In Suspend mode, the screen, the backlight, and Wi-Fi are turned off to prolong the state of the touch screen as long as possible. If you connect the AC power cable during Suspend mode, the touch screen switches to AC Power Connected mode and starts charging the battery.

  • Page 15: About Access Codes

    ADT Pulse Interactive Solutions Touch Screen User Guide About Access Codes To perform certain actions on the touch screen, such as arming or disarming, you must enter a sequence of numbers referred to as an access code. This code is the same code you use on other components of your security system, such as the security panel keypad.

  • Page 16: Entering Numbers And Letters

    ADT Pulse Interactive Solutions Touch Screen User Guide Entering Numbers and Letters In general, the touch screen allows you to make your selections by touching an icon or button on the screen. In some cases, however, you must enter numbers or letters, so the touch screen provides a numeric keypad and an alpha keyboard wherever it is needed.

  • Page 17: Numeric Keypad

    ADT Pulse Interactive Solutions Touch Screen User Guide Numeric Keypad The numeric keypad appears whenever you are required to enter a numeric value, such as your access code or a zip code in the Weather widget. As you touch each key, it appears at the top of the keypad (except when you enter an access code, when each number appears as an asterisk (*) for security purposes).

  • Page 18: Alpha Keyboard

    ADT Pulse Interactive Solutions Touch Screen User Guide Alpha Keyboard The alpha keyboard appears any time you must enter text and numbers for more advanced text input, such as location names in the Traffic widget. As you touch each character, it appears at the top of the keyboard.

  • Page 19: Security

    Security ADT Pulse Interactive Solutions Touch Screen User Guide Security The touch screen provides you with access to certain functions of your security system. From the bar at the bottom of the Home screen, you can view the current armed or disarmed status and see when sensors are triggered, for example, when a door opens, motion is detected, or a sensor has a low battery.

  • Page 20: System Icon

    ADT Pulse Interactive Solutions Touch Screen User Guide System Icon The system icon appears on the Home screen, and a smaller version of it appears on most other screens. It is a graphical representation of the overall status of your system. In addition to the icon, text on either side provides additional details.

  • Page 21: Sensors

    ADT Pulse Interactive Solutions Touch Screen User Guide Sensors When you touch the system icon on the Home screen, the Sensors screen appears. This screen displays a list of all sensors installed at your site and the current status of each. You can: Touch Bypass to display the Sensor Bypass screen.
  • Page 22 ADT Pulse Interactive Solutions Touch Screen User Guide Touch Details to view details about that sensor. The Sensor Details screen provides information about the selected sensor. You can touch Bypass to turn on bypassing for this sensor. (See "Bypassing Sensors" on page 16"Sensors" on page 14 details.)
  • Page 23 ADT Pulse Interactive Solutions Touch Screen User Guide Bypassing Sensors You use the Bypass function to temporarily disarm a sensor that would otherwise be able to trigger an alarm. In general, you can bypass sensors only when they are active—that is, capable of generating an alarm.
  • Page 24 ADT Pulse Interactive Solutions Touch Screen User Guide Subdisarming Security Panel Note: This feature is not available for all security panels. Instead, with these security panels, you bypass certain sensors after you disarm the system. To do so, see "Sensors" on page If you have 24-hour protection sensors on certain special items, such as a medicine cabinet or a wall safe, those sensors remain armed, even when the rest of the system is disarmed.

  • Page 25: Arm/Disarm Button

    ADT Pulse Interactive Solutions Touch Screen User Guide ARM/DISARM Button When your system is disarmed, the ARM button appears on the Security Bar. To arm the system, touch ARM. The ARM button allows you to arm your entire system when you are leaving the house or only your doors and windows when you are staying home.
  • Page 26 ADT Pulse Interactive Solutions Touch Screen User Guide Exit Sound or Silent Exit Note: This option is not available with all security panels. The exit delay is the amount of time between the time you send the arm command to the security panel and the time the entry/exit door is actually armed—that is, the amount of time you are allowed...

  • Page 27: Quick Exit

    ADT Pulse Interactive Solutions Touch Screen User Guide Quick Exit When your security system is armed, you can use the quick exit method to quickly open and close an entry/exit door without fully disarming the system. The quick exit method temporarily disarms the entry/exit doors and automatically arms them again after a brief period of time (generally, 120 seconds, depending on your system configuration).

  • Page 28: Trouble Arming

    ADT Pulse Interactive Solutions Touch Screen User Guide Trouble Arming If you attempt to arm the system when a sensor is in a faulted state (such as when a door or window is open), the Trouble Arming warning appears. This warning displays a list of problems (trouble list) that prevent the arming operation from completing. If you correct all of the problems on the trouble list (such as closing the front window, in the example above), this warning disappears, and the arming action is completed automatically.

  • Page 29: Emergency Button

    ADT Pulse Interactive Solutions Touch Screen User Guide Emergency Button If your security panel is configured for emergency buttons, the Emergency button appears at the top right of the Home screen. (See for information about showing or hiding the Emergency "Advanced"...

  • Page 30: Modes

    Modes ADT Pulse Interactive Solutions Touch Screen User Guide Modes Modes enables total home automation at the touch of a button, providing greater security, control, and energy savings. You perform a single action–select a new mode–and lights, thermostats, and locks transform into pre-determined states.

  • Page 31: Switching Modes

    ADT Pulse Interactive Solutions Touch Screen User Guide Switching Modes When you select the Modes button on the Home screen, the mode selection screen appears. (Until you select the Modes button and acknowledge the welcome message, the button is labeled Modes.
  • Page 32 ADT Pulse Interactive Solutions Touch Screen User Guide To cancel the mode switch, touch the Modes button a second time, and touch Cancel. The original mode remains active. To change the mode again, touch the Modes button. (You can change the mode multiple times during an exit delay.

  • Page 33: Widgets

    Widgets ADT Pulse Interactive Solutions Touch Screen User Guide Widgets Touch screen applications are called widgets . Widgets are self-contained "glanceable" applications that allow you to quickly view information that is important to you at the moment, such as getting the latest local weather before you leave the house or watching live video from one of your security cameras.

  • Page 34: System Widgets

    ADT Pulse Interactive Solutions Touch Screen User Guide System Widgets System widgets provide functionality that is tightly integrated with the security system and with site monitoring and automation technology. Page 27...

  • Page 35: Cameras

    ADT Pulse Interactive Solutions Touch Screen User Guide Cameras Touch the Cameras icon to display the live video from the last camera viewed. After a few seconds, the controls disappear, and only the video is displayed. You can touch the screen at any time to redisplay the controls, which allow you to: Touch the arrows to switch to live video from the previous or next camera on the list.

  • Page 36: Lights

    ADT Pulse Interactive Solutions Touch Screen User Guide Lights Touch the Lights icon to display a list of the lighting modules installed at your site and the current status of each. The list includes any appliance with a Z-Wave lighting module installed.
  • Page 37 ADT Pulse Interactive Solutions Touch Screen User Guide On this screen, you can: Touch the name of the lamp to change the status (On or Off) Touch the dim light icon (left) or the brighten light icon (right) to change the light's brightness level by 10% increments.

  • Page 38: Thermostats

    ADT Pulse Interactive Solutions Touch Screen User Guide Thermostats Touch the Thermostats icon to display a list of the thermostats installed at your site and the current temperature of each. (If you have only one thermostat, it bypasses the thermostat list and displays the settings for that thermostat.) If you have a thermostat that is battery powered, when the battery charge...
  • Page 39 ADT Pulse Interactive Solutions Touch Screen User Guide The thermostat screen indicates the current temperature, the system mode and the fan mode. If the system mode is set to Cool or Heat, the cool or heat setpoint appears next to the current temperature. If the system mode is set to Auto, both the cool and heat setpoints appear next to the current temperature.

  • Page 40: Locks

    ADT Pulse Interactive Solutions Touch Screen User Guide Locks Touch the Locks icon to display a list of the door locks installed at your site and the current setting (locked or unlocked) of each. On the Locks screen, you can touch Lock or Unlock to change the setting of any lock on the list.

  • Page 41: Energy Monitors

    ADT Pulse Interactive Solutions Touch Screen User Guide Energy Monitors Touch the Energy icon to display a list of the energy monitoring devices installed at your site and the current energy usage for each, measured in watt-hours (or kilowatt-hours, if greater than 999 watts).

  • Page 42: Night Mode

    ADT Pulse Interactive Solutions Touch Screen User Guide Night Mode Touch Night Mode to darken the touch screen display. This feature allows you to eliminate the light from the touch screen when someone in the room is sleeping. While the touch screen is in night mode, you can touch anywhere on the screen or press the Home button when you are ready to wake it up.

  • Page 43: Clock

    ADT Pulse Interactive Solutions Touch Screen User Guide Clock This widget allows you to use the touch screen as a clock when you are not using its other features. Touch the Clock icon on the Home screen to display a full-screen clock in analog format.

  • Page 44: Internet Widgets

    ADT Pulse Interactive Solutions Touch Screen User Guide Internet Widgets The Internet widgets provide access to interactive content using your broadband Internet connection. This section contains descriptions of common widgets, but your system configuration determines which specific widgets are available to you. (If you are configured for cellular backup for alarm reporting, the Internet widgets might be disabled.)

  • Page 45: News

    ADT Pulse Interactive Solutions Touch Screen User Guide News The News widget allows you to display news stories in a slideshow format. Touch the screen while the slideshow is playing to display the News controls: The controls for this screen are: Display the previous news category.
  • Page 46 ADT Pulse Interactive Solutions Touch Screen User Guide Display the next news category. Pause the news. Restart the news. When you touch Settings, the News widget displays the list of news categories. A check mark next to a category indicates that the category is included in the news slideshow. No check mark indicates that it is not included.

  • Page 47: Photos

    ADT Pulse Interactive Solutions Touch Screen User Guide Photos The Photos widget allows you to play a slideshow from a standard set of photos or from your Yahoo! Flickr account. The widget loads up to 25 photos, and cycles through those photos for an hour. After an hour, the widget loads the next 25 photos in the album and repeats the process.
  • Page 48 ADT Pulse Interactive Solutions Touch Screen User Guide The controls for this screen are: Display the previous photo. Display the next photo. Pause the slideshow. Restart the slideshow. To display your own pictures from your Yahoo! Flickr account: Note: To personalize the Photos widget, you need a Yahoo! Flickr account with at least one photo set (album).
  • Page 49 ADT Pulse Interactive Solutions Touch Screen User Guide 2. Touch Yahoo!/Flickr Account. The Flickr login screen appears. 3. Touch Flickr Account ID. The alpha keyboard prompts you for your Flickr Account ID. The default Flickr ID (ictrl) appears in the entry field.
  • Page 50 ADT Pulse Interactive Solutions Touch Screen User Guide 4. Touch and hold Delete to delete the default entry. 5. Enter your account ID (which is your screen name), and touch OK. You return to the Flickr login screen. Then: If you want to display only your public photos, skip the next two steps.
  • Page 51 ADT Pulse Interactive Solutions Touch Screen User Guide 9. Select the set you want to display. The Photos widget begins playing a slideshow of the photos in the selected set. Page 44...

  • Page 52: Sports

    ADT Pulse Interactive Solutions Touch Screen User Guide Sports The Sports widget allows you to display sports headlines, pictures, and brief stories in a slideshow format. Touch the screen while the slideshow is playing to display the Sports controls: Display the previous sports story.
  • Page 53 ADT Pulse Interactive Solutions Touch Screen User Guide Pause the sports stories. Restart the sports stories. When you touch Settings, the Sports widget displays the list of sports categories. A check mark next to a category indicates that the category is included in the sports slideshow. No check mark indicates that it is not included.

  • Page 54: Traffic

    ADT Pulse Interactive Solutions Touch Screen User Guide Traffic The Traffic widget allows you to check traffic in your area. It uses Google Maps to display a map of your area with live traffic data. You can add multiple locations, such as office, airport, school, and home.
  • Page 55 ADT Pulse Interactive Solutions Touch Screen User Guide The controls for this screen are: Add a location. – Remove the currently displayed location. Display the previous stored location. Display the next stored location. Scroll left. Scroll right. Scroll up. Scroll down.

  • Page 56: Weather

    ADT Pulse Interactive Solutions Touch Screen User Guide Weather The Weather widget displays the current weather conditions and the five-day forecast. You can add multiple locations, such as office, airport, school, and home. When you touch Weather, the Weather widget displays the weather in the area you last viewed.
  • Page 57 ADT Pulse Interactive Solutions Touch Screen User Guide The controls for this screen are: Display the current weather for the previous stored location. Display the current weather for the next stored location. Add a location. – Remove the currently displayed location.

  • Page 58: Daily Word

    ADT Pulse Interactive Solutions Touch Screen User Guide Daily Word The Daily Word widget displays the word of the day and its definition brought to you by Wiktionary. Page 51...

  • Page 59: Settings

    Settings ADT Pulse Interactive Solutions Touch Screen User Guide Settings The Settings button on the Home screen allows you to modify various settings on the touch screen. When you touch Settings on the Home screen, a list appears with types of settings you can view and, in some cases, change about how the touch screen is configured.

  • Page 60: Security

    ADT Pulse Interactive Solutions Touch Screen User Guide Security When you touch Security on the Settings screen, the Security screen appears. Note: For some security panels, the Key Fobs & Remotes button is not available. This screen allows you to access any of the following security settings: Security Panel History: This option allows you to view a list of security system events, such as...

  • Page 61: Access Codes

    ADT Pulse Interactive Solutions Touch Screen User Guide Access Codes An access code is a sequence of numbers that is required to arm or disarm the security system, and to access advanced security system functions like bypassing zones. If desired, a unique access code can be created for each person who will use the security system, so that history and alerts will indicate which access code was used to arm or disarm the system.
  • Page 62 ADT Pulse Interactive Solutions Touch Screen User Guide Managing Access Codes When you touch Access Codes on the Security screen, the numeric keypad appears, and you must enter the master access code. When you touch OK, the Access Codes screen appears.
  • Page 63 ADT Pulse Interactive Solutions Touch Screen User Guide 2. To change the name, touch Touch to Enter Name, enter a unique name for the access code on the alpha keyboard, and touch OK. 3. Touch Touch to Enter Code, enter a unique sequence of digits for the access code on the numeric keypad, and touch OK.
  • Page 64 ADT Pulse Interactive Solutions Touch Screen User Guide 2. To change the name, touch the current name, then enter a unique name for the access code on the alpha keyboard, and touch OK. 3. To change the code, touch Touch to Enter Code, enter a new four-digit code, and touch OK. Then touch Touch to Verify Code, enter the new code again, and touch OK.

  • Page 65: Advanced

    ADT Pulse Interactive Solutions Touch Screen User Guide Advanced When you touch Advanced on the Security screen, the Security Panel screen appears. Note: For some security panels, the Clear Alarm Events and Installer buttons are not available. This screen allows you to change any of the following settings: Update Security Panel Time: The touch screen obtains the correct time from your network.

  • Page 66: Key Fobs And Remotes

    ADT Pulse Interactive Solutions Touch Screen User Guide Key Fobs and Remotes When you touch Key Fobs & Remotes on the Security screen, the Key Fobs & Remotes screen displays a list of remote control devices installed at your site.

  • Page 67: Screen

    ADT Pulse Interactive Solutions Touch Screen User Guide Screen When you touch Screen on the Settings screen, the Screen settings screen appears. Note: The Screen Calibration button is not available for all security panels. On this screen, you can adjust: Brightness: Touch the brightness level you want for the touch screen display.

  • Page 68: Background Image

    ADT Pulse Interactive Solutions Touch Screen User Guide Background Image When you touch Background, thumbnails of the available background images appear. To change the background image on the touch screen: 1. Touch the thumbnail for the background image you want to use.

  • Page 69: Screen Saver

    ADT Pulse Interactive Solutions Touch Screen User Guide Screen Saver The Screen Saver feature allows you to automatically play one or more widgets or other touch screen features when the touch screen is not in use. When the Screen Saver feature is about to start, a count-down timer appears at the top of the screen above the time, indicating how much time is left before the Screen Saver starts.
  • Page 70 ADT Pulse Interactive Solutions Touch Screen User Guide Touch Test Screen Saver to try out your settings. If you do not change any of the default settings, the Screen Saver feature starts after 10 minutes of idle time and plays the Photos widget continuously.
  • Page 71 ADT Pulse Interactive Solutions Touch Screen User Guide 4. Touch the add icon (+) at the top of the screen to add a widget. The Choose Screen Saver list appears. 5. Touch the widget you want to add to the list.
  • Page 72 ADT Pulse Interactive Solutions Touch Screen User Guide The Play Widget For screen (with the actual name of the widget instead of the word "Widget") displays the playing time options, and a check mark appears next to the selected playing time.
  • Page 73 ADT Pulse Interactive Solutions Touch Screen User Guide 2. Touch DELETE next to each widget you want to remove from the list. 3. When you finish deleting widgets, touch Done. To specify when you want the screen saver to start: 1.

  • Page 74: Clean Screen

    ADT Pulse Interactive Solutions Touch Screen User Guide Clean Screen Touching the touch screen often leaves fingerprints and smudges. You can use this feature to turn the screen black, so any smudges are easier to see. This feature also allows you to clean the screen without inadvertently changing any settings.

  • Page 75: Screen Calibration

    ADT Pulse Interactive Solutions Touch Screen User Guide Screen Calibration Note: This feature is not available on all touch screens. The touch sensor on the touch screen is separate from the display screen that it overlays. As a result, there is no built-in relationship between the coordinates of a spot on the display screen and the coordinates it senses when someone touches directly over that spot.
  • Page 76 ADT Pulse Interactive Solutions Touch Screen User Guide Sounds When you touch Sounds on the Settings screen, the Sounds screen appears. On this screen, you can adjust: Volume: Touch the volume level you want for the touch screen audio. Touch Screen Sounds: Touch OFF to mute the touch screen sounds. Touch ON to turn the touch screen sounds on.
  • Page 77 ADT Pulse Interactive Solutions Touch Screen User Guide Information When you touch Information on the Settings screen, the Information screen appears. On this screen, you can view information about: Touch Screen Wi-Fi Signal Strength: Indicates the touch screen's Wi-Fi signal strength. The more lines shown, the stronger the signal is.
  • Page 78 ADT Pulse Interactive Solutions Touch Screen User Guide Gateway Connect: Indicates the gateway's remote connection status. If this icon is white, it indi- cates that the gateway is communicating with the server. If it is red, it indicates that the gateway is not communicating with the server.
  • Page 79 ADT Pulse Interactive Solutions Touch Screen User Guide Regional Settings When you touch Regional Settings on the Information screen, the Regional Settings screen appears. On this screen, you can view the current settings for your location. These settings determine how information is displayed and the types of options available to you on certain screens throughout the system.

  • Page 80: Troubleshooting

    Troubleshooting ADT Pulse Interactive Solutions Touch Screen User Guide Troubleshooting The following table lists some common issues and their resolutions. Symptoms Reasons Resolutions The screen is The touch screen is set to Touch the screen to wake it up. blank (dark).
  • Page 81 Troubleshooting ADT Pulse Interactive Solutions Touch Screen User Guide Symptoms Reasons Resolutions Cameras appear 1. The camera is off- 1. Sign in to the web portal and make sure the cam- on the Cameras line. era is not offline. If it is, power cycle it (unplug it for screen, but live 15 seconds and plug it back in).

  • Page 82: Settings 52

    Index ADT Pulse Interactive Solutions Touch Screen User Guide Index daily word widget 51 delay entry 18 Disarm button 19 123 11 Emergency button 5, 22 ABC 11 entry delay 18 access exit codes 8 quick 20 adding 55 sounds 19...
  • Page 83 Index ADT Pulse Interactive Solutions Touch Screen User Guide modes 5, 23-24 remotes 59 night 35 screen 60 cleaner 67 saver 62 security 53 news widget 38 sounds 69 night mode widget 35 sounds numbers exit 19 entering 9-10 setting 69...

  • Page 84: Index

    Index ADT Pulse Interactive Solutions Touch Screen User Guide weather 49 word, daily 51 Yahoo! Flickr 40 Z-Wave devices 29 Page 77...

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