Simon XTi—Bypass a Sensor

Force Bypassing: while arming your system, if a perimeter sensor is in an open or not ready status, this will allow your system to ignore that sensor.


  1. Open doors or windows you wish to bypass, then press Arm (the lock icon).
  2. a picture of an open door a picture of the simon XTi home screen with a circle around the press to arm button


  3. Press Arm All. The panel will beep your opened sensors will display.
  4. a picture of the Simon XTi arming screen with a circle around the arm away button a picture of the Simon XTi arming screen showing a sensor is open and will need to be bypassed


  5. Press Bypass. This will bypass all open sensors.
  6. a picture of the Simon XTi arming screen with a circle around the bypass button a picture of the Simon XTi arming screen showing the system is arming


Direct Bypassing: this is an alternate way of selecting sensors to bypass directly through your panel without opening them first.

  1. Press Setting (the gear on the bottom right), then press Select next to Direct Bypass.
  2. a picture of the Simon XTi home screen with a circle around the settings button a picture of the Simon XTi settings screen with a circle around the select button for direct bypass


  3. Press Not Bypassed by the sensor you want to bypass. This will change the button to say Bypassed. When done selecting sensors to bypass, press Close.
  4. a picture of the Simon XTi direct bypass screen with a circle around the not bypassed button for the master window a picture of the Simon XTi direct bypass screen with a circle around the close button


  5. Press Close again to exit.
  6. a picture of the Simon XTi settings screen with a circle around the exit button


  7. Press Arm (the lock icon), then press either Arm All or Doors & Windows Only (Stay).

    a picture of the Simon XTi home screen with a circle around the press to arm button a picture of the Simon XTi arming screen with a circle around the arm away and arm stay buttons