Re: online DMP dealers?

["Russell Brill" <russwbrill@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"blueman" <NOSPAM@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "Mark Leuck" <m..leuck@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>> "blueman" <NOSPAM@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> > "Barney" <spam@xxxxxx> writes:
>> > > "blueman" <NOSPAM@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> > > > Well, the installer/service company recommended the system. Also,
>> > > > when
>> I
>> > > > did a sanity check by googling for other peoples' experiences and
>> > > > even
>> > > > posting the proposal here on this newsgroup, the general response
>> > > > was
>> > > > that DMP was high end and one of the best...
>> > > >
>> > > > Nobody, however, mentioned the restrictive dealer situation...
>> > >
>> > > if you want to diy you picked the wrong system..  why not go through
>> your
>> > > dealer?  are you having problems with them?
>> >
>> > No. My dealer is actually very high quality and high service (and high
>> > price) -- in fact, they primarily target the high end/high income
>> > segment. Their ideal customer is one who would rather pay them to come
>> > change the battery in a smoke detector.
>> >
>> > They will certainly sell me a new keypad as long as I pay for them to
>> > install it. However, that would take all the fun out of it since I get
>> > a lot of pleasure of learning things and doing them myself. The money
>> > saved by diy is only secondary and relatively small.
>>
>> How much money will be saved if you screw something up working on your
>> monitored system? Have you bothered to let them know you want to work on
>> the
>> system?
>
> I'm not doing it for the money saved -- I'm doing it for the
> self-satisfaction. I have been building/repairing/designing with
> electronics and computers for more than 30 years so I'm not too
> worried about causing major damage -- if I do, I can almost always fix
> it and if I can't, I am willing to assume the risk of paying for my
> screw up.
>
> I have a good relationship with the alarm company (which again is high
> quality/high service) and several of their techies. In fact, they are
> the ones who gave me all the codes to the system and set me up with
> Remote Link which allows me to access and program every corner of my
> DMP panel. In fact, their techs like working with me because I tend to
> be more leading edge then most of their clients -- for example, I was
> one of the first "guinea" pigs to try out the ICOM module for the DMP
> system and we learned together how to use it. That doesn't mean that
> they know every little thing I do to the system but they certainly are
> not oblivious to the fact that I have the keys to do so...
>
> Again, I repeat -- I am not anti-installers or dealers. I like my
> dealer and they deliver great service. However, I still prefer the
> pleasure of diy with the savings being only a secondary reward -- in
> fact, if I valued my time appropriately there wouldn't be any savings
> :)

Then you should have installed the whole system yourself if you wanted total
control over it........ I see a Honeywell panel in your future :-))