johnnynine
Active Member
I currently have a GE Concord alarm system installed and have a monitoring system agreement that I can not break.
I plan to remove the GE Concord system and replace it with the Elk M1. The monitoring company has agreed to help me with this process but doing so voids my warranty on all the sensor wiring (which likely is no big deal). But in any case I would like to know if it will be possible for me to make the switch without the monitoring company knowing.
The monitoring company has given me the following information:
-My account number
-The monitoring phone number
-The reporting format
1. My current alarm system only has 5 or 6 zones set up with several sensors on each zone. When I install the Elk M1 I will have many more zones with only one sensor per zone. Does the monitoring company have any information on what each of my current zones are. If so then I would be confusing them by not notifying them of the new zones.
2. Is there a way to test the dialer in the Elk M1 after I set it up so that it communicates with the monitoring company but does not indicate that there has been an alarm, but just a test?
3. Does the Elk M1 identify it's brand or any other information that would be inconsistent with their data on file?
4. Is there any other information that I would need to plug into the ElkRP software besides the above? I see the Communicator section has things related to Pulse, Contact-IS, and SIA FSK... can I use the defaults or do these values need altering?
Please keep this thread related to the above questions, and not the details of my monitoring system agreement or the warranty agreement. Thank you.
Thanks,
Johnny
PS: I just reread my post and it sounds a bit suspicious
, but I think it's fairly harmless. They were most concerned that I would void the warranty on the GE Concord components... but they will being going to ebay anyways so I don't mind.
I plan to remove the GE Concord system and replace it with the Elk M1. The monitoring company has agreed to help me with this process but doing so voids my warranty on all the sensor wiring (which likely is no big deal). But in any case I would like to know if it will be possible for me to make the switch without the monitoring company knowing.
The monitoring company has given me the following information:
-My account number
-The monitoring phone number
-The reporting format
1. My current alarm system only has 5 or 6 zones set up with several sensors on each zone. When I install the Elk M1 I will have many more zones with only one sensor per zone. Does the monitoring company have any information on what each of my current zones are. If so then I would be confusing them by not notifying them of the new zones.
2. Is there a way to test the dialer in the Elk M1 after I set it up so that it communicates with the monitoring company but does not indicate that there has been an alarm, but just a test?
3. Does the Elk M1 identify it's brand or any other information that would be inconsistent with their data on file?
4. Is there any other information that I would need to plug into the ElkRP software besides the above? I see the Communicator section has things related to Pulse, Contact-IS, and SIA FSK... can I use the defaults or do these values need altering?
Please keep this thread related to the above questions, and not the details of my monitoring system agreement or the warranty agreement. Thank you.
Thanks,
Johnny
PS: I just reread my post and it sounds a bit suspicious
