Re: Programming First Alert Pro FA168CPS Alarm Panel

["Crash Gordon" <webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Gonna be cheaper for you to buy a keypad to program with than trying to get
Compass to work locally...cause you'll need the proper modem (hard to find)
and a dial tone emulator...programming keypad's cheaper.

Then it's just a simple matter of reading and understanding the
install/programming manual to make the changes you want.



<neilmgunn@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1185581204.771981.141550@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
|I recently bought a house with an alarm system and I want to change
| some of the zone programming.
|
| The alarm panel is a First Alert Pro FA-168CPS and I have the
| programming manual and can get into programming mode and change
| things. Unfortunately, my keypad is not an alpha-numberic one and so I
| can't program the zones.
|
| The programming manual mentions the Compass software so I was hoping
| that I could do the zone programming using this. I downloaded Compass
| 1.5.8.54 and the First Alert Pro Canadian Personality disk (I live in
| Canada). The problem is that when I start up Compass, the First Alert
| Panels do not appear in the list of panels.
|
| Do I need any other software to get Compass to work with my panel?
| Can I connect Compass up to my panel directly without using a
| telephone line?
| Is there any special programming I need to do to the panel to get it
| to work with Compass?
| Is there any other way to do the zone programming without an alpha-
| numeric keypad?
|
| I asked First Alert these questions and they simply referred me to a
| local dealer. I asked the local dealer and he only wanted to sell me
| alarm monitoring service. Can anybody help?
|