Re: Unlocking Vista 15P3 (Monitronics Boards)

[Jim Rojas <jrojas+tech-man.com>]

If the panel has been remotely locked or shutdown, my suggestions won't
work at all. That is one secret I will never reveal.

Jim Rojas



Roland Moore wrote:
> You're telling folks how to defeat the trade secrets of Monitronics, and
> then you're going to a courtroom in the city where they're headquartered?
> You are BRAVE!  I know some lawyers that might try for a 'twofer' on this.
> With two clients link Brinks and Monitronics he could do the work only once
> and get to bill twice. You're a fortune maker for lawyers. By the way, when
> in Dallas stay out of  basement parking areas, a guy named Lee had some bad
> luck there after getting accused of some awful stuff.
>
> "Jim Rojas" <jrojas+tech-man.com> wrote in message
> news:4710d94b$0$25721$4c368faf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> 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
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>>
>>>
>>>
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