[ukha_d] Anyone used "Home Wireless Monitoring System Alarm VP1000"

[Marcus Warrington <marcusw@xxxxxxxxx>]

I've always used ;

http://www.battery-force.co.uk/

found them to be cheap and quick :)

Marcus


-----Original Message-----
From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Craig
Sent: 06 July 2006 14:38
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Anyone used "Home Wireless Monitoring
System Alarm VP1000"



> to be notified of an alarm condition, obviously you do. Very
> easy to set up, and there is an X10 interface that you can
> get for it, but I have yet to explore that route (sorry Craig
;)).

The VP1000 is actually rebadged PowerMax+ hardware, as the
internal pcb is
labelled 'Visonic PowerMax+'.

To 'enable' the X10 on the VP1000 you will need a 'PowerMax+
rs232 adapter'
and a special VP1000 config file to load onto the VP1000. I
purchased this
as a 'kit' from a previous SmartHome show a year or so ago.

The VP1000 will then need to be connected to a XM10U (not
CM12U), my current
setup is:

VP1000 -> XM10U -> CM12U -> Homeseer

BTW- I was pleasantly surprised at the wireless range of the
PIRs to the
panel (better than the WiFi range in my house).

However, the one thing Im not looking forward to is replacing
all the CR-2
batteries in the PIRs when they fail, could work out quite
expensive. If
anyone knows a good bulk source of these batteries please let me
know.







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