Re: Trying to wrap my head around it

[JoeRaisin <joeraisin2001@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 11/3/2011 9:53 PM, Jim wrote:
> On Nov 3, 6:46 pm, JoeRaisin<joeraisin2...@xxxxxxxxx>  wrote:
>> On 11/3/2011 2:27 AM, Robosama wrote:
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>>> Like a W3-ADT smoke is really a 5808 rf smoke...dunno why they think we
>>> are incapable of figuring out this stuff.
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>>> Still wish I had the ADT personality files for Compass though.
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>>> :-)
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>>> "JoeRaisin"<joeraisin2...@xxxxxxxxx>  wrote in message
>>> news:j7vq9g$csj$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>> On 10/22/2011 5:17 PM, mleuck wrote:
>>>>> On Oct 21, 3:23 am, G. Morgan<G_Mor...@xxxxxxxx>  wrote:
>>>>>> mleuck Wrote:
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>>>>>>> On Oct 20, 7:14 am, G. Morgan<G_Mor...@xxxxxxxx>  wrote:
>>>>>>>> Jim Rojas Wrote:
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>>>>>>>>> ADT has their own variation of CID codes in these panels. It
>>>>>>>>> sounds like
>>>>>>>>> a bug.
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>>>>>>>> And who are they to redefine CID for proprietary panels? What a joke.
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>>>>>>> It would be a joke if they did it which they don't
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>>>>>> 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.
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>>>>> 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
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>>>> This one wasn't programmed as a configurable zone - simple entry/exit.
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>>>> 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.
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>>>> 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.
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>>>> Why do they have to rename stuff?
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>> Just installed a focus panel with a new zone added - "Movable Instant
>> PIR".  Unless of course the motion covers an entry path, then you have
>> to make it "Movable Delay".
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>> What was wrong with the good old, "Interior Follower"?-
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> I can't imagine what that might indicate ....."movable instant PIR" ?
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> Is it just a follower zone or something different?

Took me a while to figure it out.

If a zone responds the same way whether the system is armed or not, it
is "Fixed".  If it responds differently it is "movable".

A 24 hr point, even if it is just a trouble by day, is "fixed". A
regular burg zone that doesn't alarm when the system is disarmed, is
"movable".  For some reason adt did away with the follower zone on the
Focus panel.  Motions either have a delay, or they don't.

Quite a few of the adt techs say they program everything with a delay.