Re: Help with Ademco Vista 50P

["Roland Moore" <nospam@xxxxxxxxxx>]

If you suck it up first and then blow it down later you don't get confused.

"Crash Gordon" <webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> you're not stupid, Compass's upload/download seems backwards to me as
well.
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> "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 | My version is 1.5.8.44, and I am sure that it is way out of date.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 | is no longer valid.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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