Recent content by thill

Might you have the Exit1 Time Restart option enabled.  Read the bottom of page 26 in the M1 Manual about Exit Error.      

I think there are two questions that have never been sufficiently answered.   1. What Windows version is running on the PC that is unable to connect using ELKRP?   2. What firmware version is in the M1XEP where this troubling PC is not able to connect using secure port 2601?   It might be...

On the Area 1 programming you need enable the "Stay" option under STAY Key Scrolling.   I just installed an Elk M1 panel, and I am having trouble arming directly to "Stay" mode via the keypads (M1KPNAV & M1KP). I hope I have overlooked something very simple. Here goes. I only have one area...

You say the wireless zones all operate correctly. That's good.  So the goal is to get RP to agree that the group is wireless and not hardwired. This happened to me and the advice I got worked.  I fixed it doing the following very carefully. 1. Open RP and turn off the check for conflicts option...

You say the wireless zones all operate correctly. That's good.  So the goal is to get RP to agree that the group is wireless and not hardwired. This happened to me and the advice I got worked.  I fixed it doing the following very carefully. 1. Open RP and turn off the check for conflicts option...

Here is a hunch.  If there's nothing in the event log then it might not be your control that is reporting to the CS. Is your control using the phone line for communicating with the CS?  if so then you could try unplugging from the phone line for just a short while and ask the CS is signals are...

Do not use the PIR auto restore option for a door/window sensor.  You want them to send their own restore only after the door or window closes.   I suspect the tamper switch is not closed on the offending sensor(s) which will cause all loops to remain violated.  But setting the PIR auto restore...

You might be confusing what the M1XRF2H install document is saying. It's saying that on this particular sensor (5817 which has externally wired inputs) that the sensor expects you to be wiring/connecting N/C contacts (a N/C contact provides a closure or short when the door is closed and opens...

What about going ahead and making it a live zone so that it will be active when you are armed, but set it to be Silent so the siren won't sound and deactivate the alarm reporting code so that it doesn't report.  This way it should still log if it happens to false.  In reality I'd think you only...

Good point DEL, I missed the word recessed in the initial post.  So that rules out tamper.   And as you say, unless chime is on or someone is constantly watching the keypad, how can the OP be certain the contact isn't false opening while the system is disarmed.     I'd suggest it's time to put...

What's the model number of the GE contact?   The problem might be an unstable or intermittent internal tamper switch.  GE had some issues with that in their TX1010 super thin sensors.  Even if it's not a TX1010, the problem could still be a tamper issue.  You stated there are not phantom...

  That version of M1 doesn't support the M1KPNAV syncronize function.  Take a look at the M1KPNAV installation manual.     NOTE: M1 firmware v5.2.8 or later is required in order for Navigator to synchronize and display the names of Areas, F Keys, Lights, Outputs, and Tasks. ElkRP software...

Adding to what Lou has said, as long as a rule doesn't involve an email then the test button works fine. It is not useless, it's just that rules involving emails being sent out cannot be tested only because the network is tied up. There are lots of other uses for the rule test button.

1. The industry norm for siren sounds is reverse of what you stated. It's yelp (whoop - whoop) for Burglary and steady for Fire. It also common for the steady of the fire sound to be temporal coded, that is, 3 timed sounds broken by a short silence time and then repeated. 2. When set to produce...

Check the alarm cutoff timers.  If these get accidentally programmed to 0 seconds the audible alarm output will never sound.  Even a setting of 1 second will cause the same result cause its not enough on time to sound. ound.