Hello,

I recently had a nice installation of an ADT system and Nest cameras. I have two questions about ADT control panels that I haven’t been able to find in searches.

Q1 – Main panel (ADT calls this the “Command 7″ TouchScreen” on my app

If the volume is set low for arming and disarming the system (to avoid late-night teenagers from waking up some early sleepers), then the control panel’s sound when an actual alarm is triggered is also very low. I thought there should be a way to have the control panel volume blaring loudly if an alarm is triggered in stay or away mode without having a super-loud volume for routine arming/disarming and chimes.

Am I missing something, or am I stuck with an inaudible alarm that won’t wake any sleepers unless I have the regular day-to-day volume annoyingly loud?

Is there another solution to have something loud enough to wake people up if an alarm is triggered? I have an outdoor siren but that is set on a 30 second delay (not sure if I can configure that delay).

Q2 – Second panel (ADT calls it the “Secondary Wireless Touchscreen” on my app)

Should this thing have a good battery life as long as the screen is kept off? I had a power outage at 11 PM and was receiving dead battery notifications for the plugged in/fully charged unit by 5:30 AM. Is this a bad unit or is it expected that it can’t even run for a day on its battery?

Thanks for any help.