I put in a M1G a couple years ago, mostly wired, but I added a wireless controller (M1XRF2H) so we could have key fobs, and then did use two wireless transmitters, one a smoke detector in a garage, one a door contact. Mostly did this to be a bit lazy and see how they work.
They worked fine.
Then recently the door contact just stopped working. Not sure why, not the battery (replaced), just no signal, even when taken to the wireless receiver. While debugging, found one of the key fobs with the battery completely dead (replaced, works).
So I bought a new one (these were honeywell 5816's by the way). It worked fine, enrolled, door is working again.
But all this got me thinking - where's my supervision? Nothing showed up (except a continually open door) when it failed. It took about a week to get a replacement, no errors (the time was set to 24 hours, and normal supervision).
And the keyfobs never gave a low battery -- they are set to no supervision (so they don't show missing), but shouldn't they still give low battery? (I don't have their part number handy so this may not be an obvious question).
But the contact is the troubling one -- shouldn't it have given a trouble of some sort when it failed? Showed up as missing at least? As opposed to open?
I saw no message in the logs, and nothing was voiced (it is set to speak all troubles) and nothing was sent to the monitoring company. It's set to enabled, type=02 (burglar/exit 2), supervised=1=normal, loop 2, type=0=eol/wireless.
Worries me as now I don't know if I trust it will notice if the battery runs low. Or the smoke fails.
I like wired; I did the wireless for a bit of education, and maybe that's what I'm getting. But.... any idea what I did wrong? Or do I have incorrect expectations?
They worked fine.
Then recently the door contact just stopped working. Not sure why, not the battery (replaced), just no signal, even when taken to the wireless receiver. While debugging, found one of the key fobs with the battery completely dead (replaced, works).
So I bought a new one (these were honeywell 5816's by the way). It worked fine, enrolled, door is working again.
But all this got me thinking - where's my supervision? Nothing showed up (except a continually open door) when it failed. It took about a week to get a replacement, no errors (the time was set to 24 hours, and normal supervision).
And the keyfobs never gave a low battery -- they are set to no supervision (so they don't show missing), but shouldn't they still give low battery? (I don't have their part number handy so this may not be an obvious question).
But the contact is the troubling one -- shouldn't it have given a trouble of some sort when it failed? Showed up as missing at least? As opposed to open?
I saw no message in the logs, and nothing was voiced (it is set to speak all troubles) and nothing was sent to the monitoring company. It's set to enabled, type=02 (burglar/exit 2), supervised=1=normal, loop 2, type=0=eol/wireless.
Worries me as now I don't know if I trust it will notice if the battery runs low. Or the smoke fails.
I like wired; I did the wireless for a bit of education, and maybe that's what I'm getting. But.... any idea what I did wrong? Or do I have incorrect expectations?