Re: DSC-Cross Zone Police Code Alarm PROBLEM

[rwies@xxxxxxxx]

Contact ID is a format that sends an event code, area (partition) and a
zone.  For example a fire alarm in area 1 on zone 10 would come to the
central station as E11001010.

The E indicates this signal is an event, not a restore.  The next 3 digits
are the event code, 110 = Fire Alarm.  The next 2 digits are the area, 01.
The last 3 digits are the zone, 010.

No text is sent other than the E or the R.  The zone description has to
reside in the automation system.

Contact ID has hundreds of standard events and most automation systems are
able to translate the event even if an exact zone description does not
exist.  For example, if the fire alarm above was ?Smoke Detectors on Second
Floor? the automation system would display Fire Alarm Smoke Detectors on
Second Floor.  If the automation system did not have the zone description it
would display Fire Alarm Invalid or just Fire Alarm.

I hope this helps.

Ron Wies
Monitoring America Alarm Co-Op
www.monitoringamerica.com