Re: Stuff alarm installers notice

[Jim <alarminex@xxxxxxx>]

On Sunday, September 15, 2013 2:18:35 PM UTC-4, JoeRaisin wrote:
> In the latest episode of "Longmire" at about 12min 30sec in there is a=20
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> scene in a hospital room.
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> I have to wonder why there is an alarm keypad in a hospital room.
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> I have done work in hospitals - fire alarms, nurse call and access=20
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> control.  Never have I seen a keypad in a patient room.
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> The door/wall backdrop must have been recycled - maybe it was an office=
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> door once before.
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> Nothing about nothing - I know.
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> Do you guys notice keypads, motions and other alarm components in TV=20
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> shows?  Are they ever inappropriate (like one scene (and I can't=20
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> remember the show) that has the characters looking around a home while=20
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> the ademco keypad by the door has a red "armed" light on...)
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> Maybe it's just me...

Of course we notice.

Like ....... keypads on the outside of homes. When the alarm goes off the p=
olice come in minutes, 2 or three cars with lights and sirens. When nobody =
is home and someone crashes through the front door, where the keypad is ...=
. the alarm goes of instantly. Double hung windows with the magnet on the b=
ottom of the top sash and the contact on the top of the bottom sash and no =
window lock. People moving around in a room and the motion detector lights =
never come on   in every movie!. LCD keypads on the wall with blank display=
s.