Re: Locked Out by Vendor

["Crash Gordon" <webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

No there's no hardware/software reset on the 4112 - ask the original company
to unlock it for you. If they still have remote programming software (it's
very old) they should be able to do it from their office.





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**Crash Gordon**







<scantrell113@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:3879dab3-161a-40dc-b9dc-e3aeb19093e8@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> After many many years of sticking with the monitoring service offered
> by my initial home alarm installer, due to constant compounding price
> increases I decided to get service from another company.  I come to
> find that my trusted provider has locked the new monitoring company
> out the controller.  When they sold me the system, they sat at my
> kitchen table and told me that I was under no obligation to continue
> with their service and that I owned the equipment.  What they did not
> disclose was on small line in a wordy and lengthy contract that
> stipulates that they own the communicator.  We?ve probably all signed
> documents relying on anticipated fair business practices without
> parsing words (?I did not have sexual relations with that woman?).
> Two questions, is this common practice and is there a hardware reset
> on a Radionics 4112?