Re: xmitting SIA codes

[chasbo@xxxxxxxxx]

On Wed, 20 Aug 2014 04:56:09 -0700 (PDT), NickMark
<nmarkowitz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>On Tuesday, August 19, 2014 1:20:24 PM UTC-4, cha...@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
>> To all:
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>> It's getting to a point where customers are abandoning their land
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>> lines in favor of a cell phone.  When this occurs in a home that
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>> contains an alarm system and that system sends SIA signals to a
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>> central station - the transmissions to the CO end.
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>> Rather than reconfigure the system for VOIP, router, computer, WIFI,
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>> etc. I have been on the lookout for a cell phone with a built-in phone
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>> jack, thereby enabling a connection from the alarm system via standard
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>> two/four wire cable.
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>> This type of cell phone (with built-in jack) would solve the
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>> no-land-line issue.
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>> The closest answer that I have found to meet this configuration is an
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>> extra device that works with smart phones and bluetooth.  An example
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>> is:
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>> URL=http://www.myxlink.com/demo.aspx
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>> There are several other manufacturers making similar devices that
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>> allow landline or cordless phone connections to their device in
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>> conjunction with bluetooth and cell phones.
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>> The devices allow calls to be made from standard landline phones or
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>> cordless base-station-type phones, and calls to the cell phone will
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>> ring the landline phones as well as the cell phone simultaneously.
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>> Has anyone experimented with these devices to see if the signals can
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>> be transmitted to the central station receivers, and that the
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>> acknowledgement and kissoff tones are recognized?
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>> Charlie
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>Only works when cell phone is in house  there is no way around not paying for a cell communicator  uplink has communicator you plug phone line into and power with 12 vdc


Nick,

I forgot about the customer removiing the cell phone for use away from
home; hence the device that talks via bluetooth to the cell phone
can't find the ceell phone.

I use Interlogic NX8E panels with a GSM module to communicate cellular
as well as land line.