Issues Disabling Auto-Stay Arming for a Vista-128BPT

In this video, Joe from Alarm Grid covers issues that you may experience when you go to disable Auto-Stay Arming for a VISTA-128BPT. These issues usually occur because the VISTA-128BPT Panel is running Firmware 10.0. This version made it impossible to disable Auto-Stay Arming from Total Connect 2.0.

Auto-Stay Arming is a feature that has a system automatically revert to Arm Stay after Arming Away if no Entry/Exit Zones are faulted during the Exit Delay countdown period. If Auto-Stay Arming is enabled on your VISTA System, then you must fault an Entry/Exit Zone during the Exit Delay countdown. If you don't, then the system will revert to Arm Stay mode instead. You must disable the Auto-Stay Arming feature if you want your VISTA-128BPT System to Arm Away even if you do not fault an Entry/Exit Zone.

On a VISTA TURBO System like the VISTA-128BPT, the Auto-Stay Arming feature is enabled on individual system zones rather than for the entire system or partitions. If you want to disable Auto-Stay Arming for the entire system, you must do so for each and every system zone. Typically, Total Connect 2.0 would automatically ignore any Auto-Stay Arming setting, as you might be arming your system remotely and not be around to fault an Entry/Exit Zone.

But Firmware Version 10.0 of the VISTA-128BPT has an error when it comes to ignoring the Auto-Stay Arming Setting when Total Connect 2.0 is used. If you have Firmware Version 10.0, and Auto-Stay Arming is enabled for a zone, then the Auto-Stay Arming feature will go into effect when you Arm Away from Total Connect 2.0. This can cause a real problem if you go to Arm Away from TC2 while you are off-site. And it can be very inconvenient to have to disable the Auto-Stay Arming feature for each and every system zone. With that in mind, the best solution if you have Firmware Version 10.0 for a VISTA-128BPT is to upgrade to Firmware Version 10.4 instead.

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