Temporary disable M1 alarm, but keep lighting controls?

[RobNJ]

Hello -
 
Going to get interior of house painted, so I need to remove the keypads and smokes, speakers, etc.  Plan is about 3 days of work. If I turn off the sytem entirely I lose my lighting controls for this time as well.  Is there a way through ElkRP to make the M1 still control lighting, but not go crazy with missing components?

 

[tmbrown97]

Depending on your mounting method, you can often just remove the face of the system and turn it sideways, wrap it in plastic, and leave it connected.  This works for speakers, keypads, etc. 
 
You could remove the keypads or relocate them (if they're on a DBH that's a little easier) but that's a ton of effort; or you could un-enroll them.  
 
The painters I've used have never let anything get in their way or slow them down - they'd wrap your components in plastic and paint right up to them.  I too prefer to remove things so they paint all the surfaces but you don't have to go overboard - just getting them off the wall, suspended so they're not in the way, and wrapped should be sufficient.
 
Then again, I think as long as you keep one keypad on - you can acknowledge all the errors with the * key to shut the thing up and it'd be fine too.  Oddly enough, this doesn't work through a remote like eKeypad or M1toGo for whatever reason - you have to do it from a real keypad.

 

[RobNJ]

Depending on your mounting method, you can often just remove the face of the system and turn it sideways, wrap it in plastic, and leave it connected.  This works for speakers, keypads, etc. 
 
You could remove the keypads or relocate them (if they're on a DBH that's a little easier) but that's a ton of effort; or you could un-enroll them.  
 
The painters I've used have never let anything get in their way or slow them down - they'd wrap your components in plastic and paint right up to them.  I too prefer to remove things so they paint all the surfaces but you don't have to go overboard - just getting them off the wall, suspended so they're not in the way, and wrapped should be sufficient.
 
Then again, I think as long as you keep one keypad on - you can acknowledge all the errors with the * key to shut the thing up and it'd be fine too.  Oddly enough, this doesn't work through a remote like eKeypad or M1toGo for whatever reason - you have to do it from a real keypad.

Since I have 2 M1KPs and 1 M1KPAS, maybe I will leave the M1KPAS in place with the trim removed and they can mask around it, like a regular electrical outlet.  The other M1KPs come off pretty quick by unclipping the harness on the back.  Then I can just acknowledge the trouble.
I hate masking around stuff when painting, much prefer to remove.

 

[Del91574]

Since we're guessing the topology, it may be possible to pull the data bus connection off the panel and then pull the keypads. The system can run without keypads.

 

[RobNJ]

Since we're guessing the topology, it may be possible to pull the data bus connection off the panel and then pull the keypads. The system can run without keypads.

I may have to do this.  After reading your post I realized that my wireless transmitter is also on the data bus and is the closest device to the panel.   Once I remove it the keypads wont work anyway.

 

[Del91574]

If you maintained proper 485 topology without a bus, then you can remove the pads and leave the receiver with the system up and running.