Re: Trying to wrap my head around it

["Robosama" <robosama@xxxxxxxxx>]

Like a W3-ADT smoke is really a 5808 rf smoke...dunno why they think we are
incapable of figuring out this stuff.

Still wish I had the ADT personality files for Compass though.

:-)



"JoeRaisin" <joeraisin2001@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> On 10/22/2011 5:17 PM, mleuck wrote:
>> On Oct 21, 3:23 am, G. Morgan<G_Mor...@xxxxxxxx>  wrote:
>>> mleuck Wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Oct 20, 7:14 am, G. Morgan<G_Mor...@xxxxxxxx>  wrote:
>>>>> Jim Rojas Wrote:
>>>
>>>>>> ADT has their own variation of CID codes in these panels. It sounds
>>>>>> like
>>>>>> a bug.
>>>
>>>>> And who are they to redefine CID for proprietary panels?  What a joke.
>>>
>>>> It would be a joke if they did it which they don't
>>>
>>> Not the last time I looked.  I know they have "extended" codes for
>>> proprietary use on new-gen panels, but not on a SW/3000 over a dozen
>>> years old.
>>
>> Extended codes yes but redefining old codes no, besides the 3000 is a
>> Vista-20P and one can go into the configurable zone section and
>> reprogram zones to send anything
>
> This one wasn't programmed as a configurable zone - simple entry/exit.
>
> Mark, been meaning to ask you something but I'm not sure if I remember
> something right.  I think I have seen posts in the past indicating you may
> have some knowledge of ADT systems.
>
> I can't figure out what point type a motion detector should be on a Focus
> panel.  There is no "interior follower" or anything that seems like one.
> The ADT techs I have asked say they just make them either delayed or
> instant perimeter types based on where they are.
>
> Why do they have to rename stuff?