Re: Roll-your-Own

["Crash Gordon" <webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

How do you propose to control a contact of any kind? They're not
"controllable" devices.

Protection One locks they're panels so unless you get lucky by power down,
power up, press the * & # at the same time if keypad displays 20 then you're
in luck you can reprogram it. If it doesn't either toss it or see if one of
the magicians here will unlock if for you. And you'll need a keypad that can
program...a 6139 or 6160 (I think it's a 6160)...the programming sheets are
easy enough to come by...if you get the 20 display then come back and ask.

As far as your other wishes...you may be able to do some of it if you're an
engineer.

Good luck


"Capt. James. T. Kirk" <james.t.kirk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
message news:0HdOe.61$A%1.32@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Gee whiz... I've GOOGLE'd Hi and I've GOOGLE'd low...
>
> Is there a hobbyist/experimenter community that I can get in touch with
> so I can leverage my embedded PowerPC board to controlling all those
> hardwire and wireless contacts?
>
> I've bought a house and got a Vista 15P in which I can't seem to find
> its master/installer code.  Protection One was the provider.
>
> I'm tempting to rip it apart and find out what makes it tick so that I
> can do the following:
>
>   1.  Leverage my home's existing hardwire and wireless infrastructure
>   2.  Provide a secured Web page
>   3.  Leverage my own GSM transceiver to contact my
> blackberry/handheld/phone (very locally)
>   4.  Overload it with home automaton
>
> The key is which Alarm provider is accomodating to this bleeding edge
> approach?  I do want a monitoring station as well.
>
> Capt. Kirk
>