Temperature Monitoring With The PG9905 On The IQ Pro

How's it going, guys? Hayden, here from Alarm system store again, and today I got a 9905 power G temperature sensor in. So I thought we would go over how to enroll these on the IQ Pro and how to set up the different temperature sensing options with it. So I have the app connected here. Should be up on the screen there for you, and basically, we'll just walk through the whole process of how you would enroll this. Just a little bit of info about this unit. This is the temperature sensor itself. By default, this unit can detect temperatures down to -four degrees Fahrenheit up to. I believe it's a 120 or so on its own. However, there is a probe that you can attach to it, which basically wires into some terminals that you'll see in a minute, and that probe extends the actual temperature detection range of the unit. 

But anyway, once you're ready to get this enrolled, you're just going to pop it open, just like you would the 9945 or any of the other similarly designed contacts. And once you get it open, you're gonna want to put a battery in. Obviously, this one already has it. But as you can see, the inside looks very much like the 9945. These are the terminals where the probe is going to attach to. You'll notice that there is a jumper here, which basically shorts out that connection whenever you're not using the probe. So, as for the app, basically, you're just going to go to your standard auto-enroll section. So go to config, installation, devices, security sensors, and then click the plus button. And then we're just going to go to Auto Learn. And these enroll just like the 9945 as well. They have a little button right here. You're going to hold that down until you see the yellow LED and then release the button. It's a bit of an orange LED, but it's meant to be yellow.

You can actually turn the auto-learn on. That's my bad. All right. We'll try again. All right. Yellow led. Learning didn't work the first time. Let's move it a little bit away from the unit. All right. There we go. So as soon as you see it pop up here, the ID is on a label on these units. So just double check that it's the same click and. Give it a minute to do its thing. You want to go ahead and put the cover back on here.

All right. So now we got to go into configuring the device. So these sensors can be used like I mentioned, for high or low temperatures. Now, on the DSC neo, these units could only report either high or low temperature. So you would have to decide if you wanted a high-temperature detection zone definition or a low-temperature detection one. On the IQ Pro, you actually have the option of setting both a high and a low threshold. So you can basically monitor both directions with one sensor. So that is a big benefit for the IQ Pro itself. But as normal, you're just going to kind of go through the same procedure you do with most detectors. So you can put in a name if you want to. I'm just going to leave it as the default that it gave me. Under the sensor group, though. You're going to have four different options. 

So for the sensor group, I decided to jump over to the actual manual so you guys can see all the different definitions. Just because there are more than what it shows for this sensor. And that's just because there are other temp sensors you can use with the IQ Pro. So however, whatever type you connect to the system, it's going to give you the options applicable to that sensor. Now, one thing I noticed is the sensor group 50, which is the temp reporting CMS. It seems, for some reason, that isn't showing up in the manual. So I'll do a little research on that before I put this video out and put, like a little note down there at the bottom. So you guys know what that one is. However, the other ones that are applicable to the 9905 are going to be these three here at the bottom basically. Temp non-reporting freeze and then temp reporting.

So if we zoom in on those just a little bit, you can see the temp non-reporting basically only for use with this 9905. It does not report to the central station. It allows for actual temperature monitoring with customizable high and low settings. So basically this reports to the system, and you'll get a basically a temperature readout on your keypad that will tell you what the temperature this unit is sensing. For the freeze option, it triggers an alarm when the sensor detects low temperature. And for the regular temp reporting, it triggers whenever it detects a high temperature. So if we go back to our options here, I'm just going to leave it on temp non-reporting just because this is just a demo. But essentially, once you go, once you select that, and you get to do your chime type, you can leave voice prompts on or off. Select the partition it's going to be applicable to if you have partitions set up on your system. And then down here at the bottom, you have your threshold. For the temperatures. So you can basically manually set these to whatever you want. If I wanted to do 48 degrees for the low temperature, I can do that. If I wanted to set something for the high, you know, let's say 85, I can do that.

Basically, like I said, it is going to give you a readout of what the temperature is. However, it will also give you like a trouble condition if it reaches one of these thresholds. So the threshold kind of determines like what the max is before it warns you. By default, as long as you're within those ranges, though, it will just relay the temperature to you. So set those as needed. Just as an example, I'll change it to the freeze type. And if we set it to freeze, basically, you just have the one low threshold. So it takes away the high threshold because it's not watching for high temps. So you just set the low, and then you go about your day. So let me go back to the non-reporting. Select save. 

And then everything else is just going to proceed as normal just like enrolling a regular wireless sensor. Those are the basics for using this device. Now, one thing to be aware of when you're setting these up, the system does not know whether or not you have the probe connected to your sensor. So whenever you're setting up your temperature thresholds for this unit, make sure that your thresholds are within the actual spec of the device. So like I said, with this by itself, it can go down to, I believe, negative for an up to around 120 ish. Double-check the manual whenever you get it. But, the probe extends that, you know, in both directions so you can go lower and higher than what this sensor by itself can read. Now, if you set the threshold for this unit by itself, below the threshold that it can read, it will never reach that threshold. And it will basically, you'll never get a trouble or an indication that it's, you know, been triggered or that the temperature has dropped below that threshold or whatever the case is. So in the manual for this, you'll find a little spec section for these. And it'll tell you what the temperature thresholds for this unit are. As well as what the threshold for the probe is. So, you know, if you're using some of these in some of these with a probe, just make sure that you set the temperatures. So that they are within the range applicable to the sensor that you're using. Anyway, that's going to do it for this video. Hopefully, that was informative. If you guys have any questions by all means leave it down below. Otherwise, though, please leave a like and subscribe, and I will catch you guys on the next one.