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Hello and welcome to my Youtube channel. THis is a review of the Simon XT by Protect America
and GE. Protect America is an alarm company out of Texas. And the Simon XT is - this particular
model I have had for about 4 years. And I'm upgrading to the new touchscreen version of
the Simon XT and it's on the way to me right now I just ordered it [today is Thursday so
I ordered it on Tuesday] so it should be here anytime now. Once I get that I will make a
review for it. But you know this is your basic alarm system. As you see right now it's disarmed
and it's got the time on it. If you can see that there. Let me just get that in the picture
- okay. So this is the screen on it. To arm your system you're going to push this once
if you want your door and window sensors on. You're going to push it twice if you want
the door and window sensors on with a no entry delay. The windows automatically have a no
entry delay but the doors don't so you're going to want to put it on the no entry delay
feature which means pushing this button twice if you are home at night, in the evening,
or whenever. So That means whenever the front door or back door or any thing in the system
that is deemed a door opens it will automatically set off the alarm. There will be no delay
to get in and turn it off. Which is a good feature for at night or when no one is out
of the home. The motion feature you only have to push that once and that turns on all your
motion detectors. Here is the disarm button. And the status button. Right now if I push
the status button on my alarm it's going to say there is a low battery. They have sent
me one but I have not installed it yet. And the front door is open right now so I'm just
going to walk you through arming and disarming, no entry delay, entry delay and all that.
So first of all to arm your system you're just going to press this once, twice and to
bypass that so there you've just bypassed the front door but the alarm will still turn on. Let
me turn that off so that doesn't beep. Let me zoom out for you. These buttons you may
have been wondering what I pushed right here the silent button makes it so it does not
beep this is useful again if you're not setting it when your home. It's useful when your are
home. And the bypass means a door is open but that's okay you don't care you want it
to bypass that door or window will not be secured but it's good for during the summer
when you want to have a window or door open for some ventilation. So it should beep here
in a minute. Even when you put it on silent there will be a final beep telling you that
the alarm is on and any other doors or windows that open will set the alarm off. So I'm going
to put in my code here. SO we can watch it - there you go. So um motions oh but also
the bypass as soon as you disarm it forgets that that door or window is bypassed again
so it's back to normal. Motions - you are just going to press the button once to turn
it on. To do both doors and windows and motions you're going to push this button and this
button. So to do doors and windows no entry delay push that twice. To do doors and windows no entry delay
and motions you're just going to double tap and push once. So that's how that is. To check
the status to see what doors and/or windows are open just push status. Like I said mine
says low battery but yours shouldn't. This is how you get in to menu [over here] and
you can flip through the features. Whenever you call in for service they're going to tell
you push the enter button. This is your enter button - this center button right there. That
is the enter button. And there we
have learned.