Recent content by nauticus25

Well shoot. My laptop died. It was 10 years old, so I'm not shocked. I should be able to connect everything to my media PC, but haven't gotten a chance to do that yet. :angry: Before it died, I monitored the panel, partition, and zone status pages while tripping a zone and I didn't notice...

Add me to the list! I'm trying to troubleshoot a Caddx panel and it would be extreeeeemely helpful to see what the built-in driver is doing versus starting over from scratch.

Aaaaaand we're back! Tim, before I move forward, can you check two things for me? First, what is your panel firmware? Mine was showing "2.00", but for some reason it isn't right now. I wonder if a different panel firmware sends different length zone status messages. Second, when you...

I monitored the "Triggered" field in several Zones' properties during my walkaround testing and it remained unchecked (False). The laptop is in the basement next to the panel, so I'm doing most of my testing via VNC on an iPad. I thought that there might be a slow display refresh issue due to...

Yup, in Port Spy the first Ack is brown (waiting to send) and the second is green (sent). Strange that my panel sends a 10 byte Zone Status and Timoh's sends 8 bytes. When I click on "NX8e_Panel" in the Device list in Premise, in the Properties window under PanelEx, mine shows a Firmware of...

Eureka. That right there is my own little Rosetta stone. Cool. First I tried messing with the 584's jumpers. They currently match the configuration in Premise's 584 setup instructions. Other configurations resulted in no communication with the port. Then I tried turning off Zone Status...

Aha. This was a source of much confusion. Uh oh. It makes sense! So I assume that byte 2 shifts up the zone numbers by factors of 16. If it was 01h, then I can assume that the next 8 bytes refer to zones 17-32? Ok, here's another place where I'm getting confused. The serial protocol...

Premise's Port Spy does show 4 messages from the panel (black text) interspersed with acknowledge messages from Premise (brown and green text) every time a zone is tripped. Not sure what it's saying, though. Quick question before I head downstairs to check the panel... When you trip a zone...

No worries. I appreciate you even offering to try it out. My son still takes afternoon naps, so that's usually my time to "play". My next troubleshooting step is to try to translate some of the serial communication using Premise's Port Spy. There's definitely lots of chatter when I trip a...

Well that's pretty spiffy. Here I thought I was special because I was using the only panel listed in the help file. Heh heh. I'm having fun figuring out Premise, and while Homeseer does work with the Caddx, it's price is waaaay out of my budget. So, I'm sticking here. More troubleshooting...

I installed the trial version of Homeseer last night to see what would happen. In my brief testing, it seemed to work pretty well. All zones showed up, and although status wasn't pushed live to the IE browser, upon refresh, tripped zones showed up as such. And they were individually...

Awesome. I had a sneaky suspicion something like Group Bypass would be the answer, and there it is. Thanks for that! I have gone over steps 4 and 5 for the NX584 a few times just to make sure I have the settings right. Perhaps because I have the NX-8E, it's not expecting to have to deal with...

I misread your first post... Thought you meant you knew that DL900 showed zone status, but were asking what mine showed. Sorry about that. I'm not sure I understand your question... I don't think I want to reconfigure zone types based on what I'm bypassing, but I'll be the first to admit that...

Ok, did some testing. I don't see anywhere in the DL900 software to see individual zone status. Can you point me in the right direction? If I open up the Diagnostics window in DL900, I do see all sorts of The Matrix-y text go scrolling by as I trip different zones. So it seems that data is...

First I just wanted to say that the increased activity on the forums here has been great to see and it has motivated me to pick up Premise again.  Keep up the great work, everyone! I have a Caddx NX-8E, but the on-boad serial port failed after a lightning storm, so it's hooked up with the...