Recent content by brokencircuit85

It has been a long, grueling process these past couple of months. But, I finally have the Vista 20P working like it should. It definitely feels good, having gone through all the trial, error, correction, and successes. I am completely new to this, and now I feel that I have learned so much. I...

Wow.... Sorry I missed that. Y'all are exactly right, the EOLR is parallel. So basic. Thank you for pointing that out! I will swap that later on today.

My Vista 20P has a Honeywell Aurora motion sensor hard wired. It's on zone 1. It's backwards. Lack of motion creates a fault. Motion makes no fault. Since zone 1 on this panel is EOLR only, I have an EOLR on the zone 1 panel terminals directly. I've set the zone type to 4 (interior follow)...

Fantastic. The Ad2usb worked! I've finally got the panel programmed the way I want it.

I recently bought the Edimax IC-3015Wn. No pan or tilt, but does have digital zoom I think. $59.99 a piece. Good value, may or may not meet all your needs though. It has a pretty decent web interface natively, suitable for building your own monitoring page. For what it's worth, I use iCam on Mac...

I've done much searching. It seems that unless you know exactly what alpha prompt *should* be displayed, there's no way to know what you're doing when pushing buttons on the 6150RF. "flying blind" is the word. So I've gone ahead and gotten an AD2USB. I need one anyway, and should be able to...

Well yeah. I have no trouble reading the current settings. But how do I change them? The zone type, specifically? Change zone 3's zone type from 03 to 01, for example? Scrolling down, each zone has its zone number displayed twice In a row, and the third field is the zone type. (so what I see...

I have successfully figured out how to review data fields in *56 mode. However, I can't figure out how to change fields. What I'm trying to do is change a zone's entry type from 03 to 01. When I enter *56, and keep hitting * til I see what I need, I tried entering 01*, but it reverts back to...

Ok. So is programming with the 6150RF impossible? That's the feeling I'm getting. I wanted to get the thing running before investing in more keypads but I guess I may have to. That being said, can I program this using an ADB2USB and Indigo plugins?

to answer: 1.) Zone 1 is factory set up for smoke. That makes sense. My motion sensor must have been triggering that alarm. Yes, I have an EOLR resistor directly across the zone 1 terminals, only because I thought it was required. 2.) When you say "4112+800", does the "+" indicate a button...

I just installed an Ademco Vista 20p. I'm having a hard time getting started with programming. It's brand spanking new, out of the box, first power on. As of right now, when I apply power, the siren goes off reporting a "Fire" condition, after about 1 to 2 minutes. The manual states that to...

I will probably straddle the stud when installing the panel. What's gonna be tricky is loosening the present wire from its loom and fishing it through down behind the power outlet. It may be more feasible to just run it on surface. Will running it on surface with plastic conduit violate any kind...

Sorry for the crap quality. A 100k image size results in this: Anyway there's a stud between the home run bundle and the power outlet. I don't want to mess with high voltage wiring if I can help it. I.E. I don't want to add another high voltage receptacle or anything like that. So if I were...

What's the proper way to install an alarm panel transformer? My home run bundle and power receptacle are separated by a stud, so it's gonna be pretty difficult to run the wire behind the wall. Is it OK to just run a plastic conduit down the surface of the wall from the panel to the...

Yeah. I am eventually going to just get a WiMax ISP, and hook up my router to a UPS. I have used WiMax here before and it's fantastic.