Hi All,
So my TP2 is getting a bit long in the tooth. The touch screen has some dead spots and it has to be re-flashed every quarter or so as it just gets flakey. As my provider has a windows phone or win7 phone available I checked with Elk to see if RMS will run on the updated platform and was advised that it won't. Now from what I gather the newer platform uses silverlight which actually still runs on top of the latest netcf, and if I understand correctly it would be possible to port the existing program to the new platform. I hoped that Elk would be ahead of this curve, but whether they update the software in the near future is unclear, and win8 is already on the horizon. So I am looking for alternatives.
Frankly I'm just not an apple kinda guy so the iphone is unlikely which leaves android, unless someone knows of another windows based app.
That said I have seen the elkdroid and mykeypad apps and I am concerned that it appears that in both of those, it is possible to disarm the system without being forced to enter a user code as you need to do with RMS. I have been very careful about programming my wireless FOBs so that if one were to be in the wrong hands the best you could do is gain entry to the garage. After two minutes if you have not continued to the keypad and disarmed the system, the garage closes and re-arms to away, and additional presses of the FOB unlock will not function. So to have a phone that can disarm the system without requiring a valid user code is a non-starter for me. I'd love to say that no one in our household has ever left their phone in their car but the reality is that just isn't true.
So can anyone enlighten me as to whether either of these apps allow you to force the use of a user code to disarm, or if there are any other software options out there? You can include iphone stuff as I am only aware of ekeypad, but I would have to be enamored to move in that direction. Windows would be my preferred platform but hoping elk will update RMS in the future isn't going to work for me right now.
Thanks for your input!
So my TP2 is getting a bit long in the tooth. The touch screen has some dead spots and it has to be re-flashed every quarter or so as it just gets flakey. As my provider has a windows phone or win7 phone available I checked with Elk to see if RMS will run on the updated platform and was advised that it won't. Now from what I gather the newer platform uses silverlight which actually still runs on top of the latest netcf, and if I understand correctly it would be possible to port the existing program to the new platform. I hoped that Elk would be ahead of this curve, but whether they update the software in the near future is unclear, and win8 is already on the horizon. So I am looking for alternatives.
Frankly I'm just not an apple kinda guy so the iphone is unlikely which leaves android, unless someone knows of another windows based app.
That said I have seen the elkdroid and mykeypad apps and I am concerned that it appears that in both of those, it is possible to disarm the system without being forced to enter a user code as you need to do with RMS. I have been very careful about programming my wireless FOBs so that if one were to be in the wrong hands the best you could do is gain entry to the garage. After two minutes if you have not continued to the keypad and disarmed the system, the garage closes and re-arms to away, and additional presses of the FOB unlock will not function. So to have a phone that can disarm the system without requiring a valid user code is a non-starter for me. I'd love to say that no one in our household has ever left their phone in their car but the reality is that just isn't true.
So can anyone enlighten me as to whether either of these apps allow you to force the use of a user code to disarm, or if there are any other software options out there? You can include iphone stuff as I am only aware of ekeypad, but I would have to be enamored to move in that direction. Windows would be my preferred platform but hoping elk will update RMS in the future isn't going to work for me right now.
Thanks for your input!