Re: Alarm system suggestions?

["Patrick Lidstone" <patrick@xxxxxxx>]

--- In ukha_d@y..., "Robert Welsh" <bob-ukha@s...>
wrote:
> I was having exactly the same though the other night, Ant.
> 
> I've already got a wired alarm system which I'd simply like to 
replace
> the main box of - i.e. leave the PIRs (and if possible, the 
keypads).

When I was having issues with my Comfort, I looked around for 
something like this -- a simple serial output, nothing complicated -- 
and had no real luck. I did come across the Genesis system 
manufactured in Aus -- I think the owner is a mate of Franks? - very 
reasonable costs (although I don't know how much shipping would add). 
Fortunately Comfort finally got their act together and the 
replacement wasn't required.

In the previous place I lived I had a standard alarm panel (suppled 
by Henrys) and wired an input/output board in parallel with the PIR 
sensors. Worked quite well, I imagine you could do something similar 
with a VIOM, PIC, rabbit or whatever, if you want to go the homebrew 
route. You won't get it certified for connection to a central 
monitoring station with mods like that of course...

Patrick



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