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What is arming and disarming, and how to use it?
What is arming and disarming, and how to use it?
Pavel Kuba avatar
Written by Pavel Kuba
Updated over a week ago

Imagine traveling out of your home for a vacation, to a concert or theater, or commuting to your place of work. Nobody is left at home, and you would like to know when anybody enters your property. Or you are the last person to exit the office or store.

Perfect situation for the ARMED state.

ARMED state = In case of a security incident, your phone will receive critical notifications and trigger a loud acoustic alarm tone. If you share the incidents with your friends or a central monitoring station, they will receive them only in an ARMED state.

But when returning from a vacation, from a concert, theater, or work, you no longer need to Deter the thieves with a speaker or fog cannon.

Perfect situation for the DISARMED state.

DISARMED state = no incidents are sent to you, your friends, or central monitoring stations.

Most cameras can already detect motion. Sign up, connect your camera(s) securely with AngelBox, then connect the motion events to Angelcam, turn on critical notifications, and you can start using the ARMING and DISARMING features.

Why is it important?

ARMED state triggers most critical actions such as:

  • AI-based filtering feature that will filter false alarms (included in the RTS plan)

  • push notifications to your mobile app

  • shared push notification to contact customers with whom they want to share incidents with

  • audio warning message via Angelbox's audio input or Axis speakers

  • an email with a unique link (that will expire in 1 hour) to a web-based Video Verification screen, which is used by the central monitoring stations. In case of an incident, you'd receive this email with a link to see all the customers' cameras in a web matrix view. You can see live-view and recordings for the last hour.

How to arm manually?

In Angelcam's mobile app, click on the arm button.

In the Incidents settings tab at the Angelcam's web app, just click on the arm button.

How to disarm manually?

In Angelcam's mobile app, simply click on the disarm button.

In the Incidents settings tab using Angelcam's web app, simply click on the disarm button.

Arming is included in our security plan - RTS. Happy arming!


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