Re: Help with Ademco Vista 50P

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"Mark Leuck" <m..leuck@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:47899973$0$31775$4c368faf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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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.

My version is 1.5.8.44, and I am sure that it is way out of date.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is no longer valid.

And for the record, I did graduate from high shcool.


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