Using Both The PG9945 Reed Switch And AUX Input On The IQ Pro

Hayden here again from Alarm System Store, and today I'm doing a quick video on the PG9945 and using a secondary wired contact with it on the IQ Pro system. So, whenever you're looking at, you know, any situation where you might need two sensors close to each other, and you're doing a mainly wireless system. A lot of times, it is simpler and cheaper to do a setup like this. The PG9945 is basically a wireless door contact, but it has this auxiliary input in it right here, which allows you to connect a wired sensor. And a lot of you might know that, however, when you go to hook it up, it's not immediately clear in the IQ Pro or Qolsys systems in general how to set up both, you know, the reed switch for the wireless sensor itself, and the actual wired contact. Doing one or the other isn't too bad. However, it doesn't really tell you what you're supposed to do to add the other one. And basically, what you have to do is you have to add the sensor twice. So today I thought I'd just kind of do an overview of that.

I have it already open. I have the sensor connected. So I'm going to make this as quick as I can, but essentially just to cover this real quick, like I said, inside the 9945, you'll find this terminal set right here, just two terminals, and you just take a wire or two wires, I guess, connect it up there and then run those over to your wired contact. Like this. This is particularly handy for double hung windows or, you know, two doors that are right next to each other, multiple situations where you could utilize this setup. However, whenever it comes to, like, mounting and things like that, you guys just kind of have to, you know, figure out the best position for it. Or if you have the sensor open, you can see where the reed switch is inside here. So this little glass tube right here is your reed switch. So when the magnet gets close to that glass tube and that's when it actually triggers the sensor like that. So anytime you are, you know, setting this up, mounting it, or whatever, just try and remember that wherever you place this sensor, the magnet has to go essentially as close to that reed switch as possible. And then from there, you can just run the wire as needed to the other location. And these wired contacts are even simpler. It's just a rectangle you put next to the other rectangle. One thing to remember, there are plenty of difficult windows and situations where you know it's going to be hard to mount these. You can use spacers and things like that, you know, to like either prop one or the other up or whatever the case might be. Just get the magnets as close to the reed switch as you can, and you'll be good to go. 

Once you have it installed, though, that's when you'll want to enroll it. I guess you could do it before, but either way, it doesn't matter a whole lot. And with the IQ Pro, we're going to go into the app, which I already have pulled up here, as you'll see. And basically, we just need to enroll the wireless contact. So we're going to put the panel in auto learn mode. And once it gets started, it'll have that circle there. And you'll hold the enrollment button on the 9945 until it turns yellow, or the LED flashes yellow. And then it'll pop up once you select the end, you'll basically go through and just set it up as a normal sensor. So the first thing you're going to do, you know, so like the name, you can select the sensor group. So, whether it's going to be a delayed instant or whatever the case may be, the chime, voice, prompts, cross zone, bypass. Leave that all as normal unless you specifically need to change it for something. And then when you get down to the sensor input, that's the part you need to pay attention to. So by default, it's going to pop up with reed switch. So reed switch is indicating the reed switch that is inside the contact itself. The 9945. So basically, this enrollment or this sensor is going to be the reed switch input for this device. So we're going to leave that as is because we do want to basically use, you know, both this reed switch and that contact. So set this one up as needed. I'm not going to do anything on it but set it up as needed. Leave that as reed switch and then click save. So once you're done, just click cancel auto learn. Make sure it shows configured, back out, check, and make sure that that shows up. 

And then moving on to the wired portion of the contract. You're basically just going to add another sensor. And you're going to do this one manually this time. So you're going to enter the manual ID for this sensor. Where is the sticker on this one here? This. So 101-5829. So, since we're manually enrolling at this time, like the auto-enroll basically, you know, helps the sensor make that initial contact with the panel when we go to manually enroll, it's already talking to the sensor. So we're basically just setting this up as a second sensor. So you type in whatever you need. I'm just going to select back door to make it simple and quick. So once you have a name, you'll select the sensor group just like you did with the original sensor. You can have these different groups if you want to. You can have one delayed and one instant. I'm just going to leave it as entry exit, just like we did before, except for down here. I'm going to, instead of having reed switch under the sensor input, I'm going to select normally closed. So these three options right here are basically options that pertain to the auxiliary contact. So normally closed is what you would normally select for a door contact. When the door is closed the magnet is close to the reed switch, so it is closed. If you need normally open, that basically means that this magnet is going to be away all the time, and whenever it closes, that's when you want it to trigger. Now you can use end-of-line resistors with this, which is why there's an end-of-line option there. It would just be a 5.6K resistor, just like you would use for the rest of the panel. But once you've selected the sensor input for the wired contact, you'll just click save. And basically, it just pops up as a second contact here. 

So now one thing to keep in mind is the tamper here basically is indicating the cover is off of the actual 9945 itself. That shows for both of the contacts because they are both tied to this one wireless sensor. However, we'll get that dealt with. That will clear on both. And you'll see here in a second. When I move the magnets away from these that they will individually report. So if I open this contact, you'll see it pop up here. That was the back door that we put in. So this one is now showing open. So if we put that back, that'll clear. And then if I pull this magnet away, it shows the door window two is the one that's open. So both of these will read individually. And like I said, you can have separate definitions for them. Whatever you want to do. However, if you do have a tamper condition and you notice that it's showing on both of those, it's always indicating the wireless sensor.

But essentially, that's all you have to do. So once you auto-enroll your actual PG9945, get it set up the way you want it. You don't even have to use the read switch if you want. You could essentially just use it as a wireless contact connected to the wired one, and you basically just wouldn't add that first device there. You basically would just enroll it, select how you wanted the auxiliary input to act, and that would be all you did. If you do want both to be active, though, you just do exactly what we did here. Auto-enroll the 9945, set it up with the reed switch, and then manually enroll this sensor a second time, with the focus on the actual auxiliary contact. So hopefully that was informative for you guys. If you do have any questions. By all means, leave them down below. If you don't mind, leave a like and subscribe, and I will catch you guys on the next one.