RE: Anyone used "Home Wireless Monitoring System Alarm VP1000"

["Dean Barrett" <dean@xxxxxxxxx>]

hmm... was obviously mistaken too, as i did not believe they are the
same
bit of kit.

Certainly Visonic claim it is not a Powermax Plus (i just ripped into our
rep)

Powermax Plus does not an RS232 adaptor to enable X10.

Hopefully the adaptor and config file arent to expensive :)

Perhaps is an old version as i guess it wont have the latest firmware (B or
D - cant remember) which supports fully wireless bells, camera and
broadband
interface


Dean.




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From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
David Ward
Sent: 06 July 2006 15:08
To: 'ukha_d@xxxxxxx'
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Anyone used "Home Wireless Monitoring System
Alarm
VP1000"



Craig,

This sounds really interesting!

I was under the mistaken impression that the VP1000 was a rebadged
Powermax,
not Powermax+

Do you have any further details of the config file, how it is applied, and
the supplier you got it from?

Many thanks

Dave



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From: Craig [mailto:craigc.lists@ <mailto:craigc.lists%40googlemail.com>
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Sent: 06 July 2006 14:38
To: ukha_d@yahoogroups. <mailto:ukha_d%40yahoogroups.com>
com
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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