Can I have only the strobe light and not siren? (FortrezZ Alarm)

Devices & Integrations
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I have the FortrezZ Siren Strobe Alarm with my Smartthings system. Just wondering if I can have it only trigger the strobe light without the siren when certain things happen…

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According to the IDE documentation, the alarm capability does have separate strobe and siren commands

Alarm capability.alarm
alarm — [“off”, “on”]
off()
strobe()
siren()
both()

https://graph.api.smartthings.com/ide/doc/capabilities

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Hmm. Just trying to do it through the app and I don’t see how. Anyone have this set? Any step-by-step instructions would be awesome.

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You may want to check out our IFTTT integration which allows you to trigger a siren strobe based on a variety of events.

Our Smart Security SmartApp has a silent alarm functionality that will strobe the siren but it’s reliant on specific series of events to trigger. You’ll have more flexibility if you go the IFTTT route for now.

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Thanks Tyler. Just wondering how I can set up this recipe? I’ll muck around with it…

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Did you get this working ? And if so how?

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Any advice here? Would love to be able to do this through the Smart Home Monitor app.

Thanks

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There’s an app called ‘Smart Security’ that allows you to choose silent alarm. It works. In fact, because of some glitches with the new built-in security I’m using it now and used it for quite some time prior to switching to v2 hub.

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Brian, Is it possible to have siren give one or two beeps when a door opens while in the ARM (stay) mode but to continuously sound in the ARM(away) mode?
Bill

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