Re: Unlocking Vista 15P3 (Monitronics Boards)

["Crash Gordon" <webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

no sheet? cool dood!



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Crash Gordon
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<I feel like I'm diagonally parked in a parallel universe>
"Jim Rojas" <jrojas+tech-man.com> wrote in message
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| All you have to do is swap the firmware chip.
| Press *97 will reset all to Ademco factory defaults
| Then swap chips again
| Press *97 will reset Monitronics defaults.
| By default, Monitronics has no phone numbers in fields 41 & 42.
| Check field 94 and make sure it has no number
| Check field 95 and make sure it is set to 0
| You now have a usable local only system.
|
| Jim Rojas
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| Crash Gordon wrote:
| > You can't buy a chip...well maybe maybe you could if you were a
dealer...but
| > it ain't easy.
| > You have to have a garage full of pulled panels that my have other
problems
| > besides the chip, and  you pull one from one of them.
| >
| > You should be able to get into programming. But if you cannot remove the
| > dialer # and account number the panel will alway try to dial when it has
| > something to send, and since you will unplug it from the telco line...it
| > will fail to communicate. This will display FC on the keypad - everyday
if
| > they have it set to test daily (I doubt it) but when ever you want to
clear
| > the FC you may have to go into programming then exit again. This will be
a
| > PITA.
| >
| > In the long run you will end up buying a new Vista 15P :-) --- they're
not
| > all that expensive. In fact you probably could step down to a 10P -
| > depending on what all is in the system.
| >
| >
| >