Re: Unlocking Vista 15P3 (Monitronics Boards)

["Roland Moore" <nospam@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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
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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.
> >
> >
> >