Re: Help with Ademco Vista 50P

["Crash Gordon" <webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

you're not stupid, Compass's upload/download seems backwards to me as well.

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**Crash Gordon**






"TDM" <rpuffd@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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| "Mark Leuck" <m..leuck@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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| > "Robert L Bass" <RobertLBass@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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| >> > DIYers take note:  this is an example of why untrained people
| >> > shouldn't be playing with dealer software.  Compass is not meant
| >> > for end users.
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| >> Oh, nonsense!  Compass is easy to learn.
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| > Sure looks like it doesn't it?
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| Well, against my better judgment, I will chime in here.
| I did not find Compass that hard to use, except for my
| stupidity in what download and upload mean, at least
| when using Compass. It is farily simple and striaght forward
| to use, but a bit quirky when editing alpha values. I am a DIY
| and I set up my Vista 50P initially from an alpha keypad. As I look
| back on that task(14 years ago), I wonder how I ever
| accomplished that on my own, but I did. I first got Compass
| to be able to program the panel for X10 devices. I did an
| initial upload of the customer data back in 97 or so,
| then never went any further until yesterday.
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| My version is 1.5.8.44, and I am sure that it is way out of date. I notice
| it is written in Visual Basic, and the 16bit version as well which is very
| old. It locked up on me several times, to the point where I had to use
| the power switch to get my PC back to life. So, is  there still a place
| where a DIY can get the latest version of this software ? I see that
Ademco
| is now Honeywell, and the support link for obtaining Compass from Ademco
| is no longer valid.
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| And for the record, I did graduate from high shcool.
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| TDM
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