Alarm PIN
On alarm devices, a PIN CODE card above the objects (expand the device to see it) lets you require a PIN before the alarm accepts commands from the app:
- Set Protected commands to Arming, Disarming, or Arming and disarming. Arming covers both the Arm and the Partial commands. None switches the protection off and erases the stored code.
- Type a code of 4 to 8 digits in PIN code and again in Confirm. When a code is already stored, the first field reads New PIN code (optional): leave both fields empty to keep the current code.
- Click Save. The card shows PIN SET.
The protection works as soon as you save. You do not need Apply changes, even though its counter goes up.
In the app, a protected command opens a keypad; the command is sent when the last digit is in. After a correct code, the phone or tablet that entered it can send Arm, Partial or Disarm to this alarm without the keypad for 120 seconds. The period is fixed: a further command does not extend it. It ends early when the app loses its connection or when you change the PIN settings.
To remove protection, click Remove the PIN and confirm with Delete — the commands are no longer protected.
⚠️ Warning: The PIN protects the alarm buttons of the HyperVisu app and the web app only. A scenario, an automation, Node-RED or a webhook call that arms or disarms the alarm does so without a code: review them before you rely on the PIN. Users who can reach the admin panel can change or remove it — keep alarm devices in rooms with an appropriate permission level (see “Building Structure & Categories”).
📘 Note: The number of wrong codes is not limited: a wrong code is refused and nothing is sent, but the keypad never locks.
Global-command exclusion
Lights and shutters offer Exclude from global commands in Edit Device (and in Add Device). The switch exists on these types only, because a global command reaches nothing else. Switch it on and click Save Device.
An excluded device ignores the room, category and building commands (the "all lights off" style buttons, see “Global Commands”), including a Global Command action in an automation. It can still be controlled directly, and by scenarios and automations that name it. A command sent to a device group still reaches an excluded member of that group.
The device row shows the NO GLOBAL chip. The exclusion works as soon as you save: you do not need Apply changes, even though its counter goes up.
💡 Tip: Typical candidates: the aquarium light, the freezer socket, a shutter that must never close automatically.