Re: Area Code Change: Ademco Vista 50

["Roland Moore" <nospam@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Ask your service provider if he or she has a copy of Compass for Windows. If
they don't, or don't know what you're talking about, it would be a good
indication it's time to switch providers. What the company might want to do
is upgrade the chip inside your Vista 50 panel, especially if it is a really
old version. Newer keypads like the 6160 reportedly have trouble with early
version of the Vista 50 without the chip upgrade. That means the whole
program has to be rewritten within Compass for the upgrade.
That would be the only reason to have to send a technician to the site.
However simply making a change in the dialer and not testing the system
thoroughly afterwards is certainly not a good idea.


<dbahde at comcast net> wrote in message
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> We recently had an area code change and my monitored system is no
> longer calling out.
>
> My monitoring company sent me a certified letter (after 3 weeks)
> offering to send someone at an excessive (to me) cost for a call that
> is basically to program in an area code.
>
> Does someone have step by step instructions I can follow off the key
> pad to reprogram the number myself?
>
> Thanks.
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