Alarm Mode
Alarm Mode gives you a streamlined, full-picture view of what is happening at your home or business during an alarm. With Alarm Mode, you can quickly assess the situation and take action by viewing video clip thumbnails, accessing live camera feeds, and reviewing recent system activity—all in one place.
Benefits & Features
- Provides you with digestible, actionable information when a potential emergency is taking place at your home or business.
- Empowers you with the insights needed to swiftly assess and alarm situation in real-time, determine the validity of the alarm, and take action quickly.
- Helps you to remain calm during alarm events with an easy-to-use interface that can help reduce costly false alarm dispatches.
- View recently captured video clip thumbnails and easily access live video feeds from cameras throughout the property to see what's happening in real-time.
- Quickly review recent system events, such as sensor and lock activity, detected persons, and more.
- For accounts with integrated monitoring services, view your verbal passcode, or cancel a false alarm directly within the interface.
How to View Alarm Mode:
- Log into your Brinks Home app.
- Tap Alarm Mode. Note the Alarm Mode card will only display when an alarm event occurs.
- View the video thumbnail and recent alarm events.
- Cancel, verify, or disarm to clear the alarm.
- Tap Cancel Alarm to cancel the alarm and send a disarm signal to the panel.
- Tap Verify Alarm to verify the alarm and send a signal to the monitoring station while the system remains in the alarm state.
- The system will go into the alarm state after 2 minutes. Tap Disarm to Clear to clear the alarm.
- After an alarm is resolved and the system is disarmed, the Alarm Mode card disappears and the regular dashboard returns.