Re: Vista 20P not allowing program re-entry

[RTS <gafa@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 4/4/2021 7:37 PM, Jim Davis wrote:
> On Sunday, April 4, 2021 at 1:29:55 PM UTC-4, Bob La Londe wrote:
>> On 4/3/2021 2:59 PM, Airdorn wrote:
>>> On Thu Apr 1 09:52:35 2021 RTS wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> but, We have had your problem also,
>>>> What we found was if your panel is set for partitions,
>>>> and your on the wrong keypad, you'll get that behavior...
>>>>
>>>> (program only from the partition 1 keypad...)
>>>>
>>>> We also had a panel that would not revert back to *99
>>>> even when remotely changed to *99 in programming..
>>>>
>>>> Never did figure out what was it's problem....
>>>> (trash canned that one...)
>>>>
>>>> Les, tech support isn't what it use to be back in the day....
>>>>
>>>> Last time I had to call them, I went through their whole
>>>> stable of reps, and not 1 could figure out what was happening..
>>>> Just luck I guess, after a nights sleep I saw immediately
>>>> what was wrong...
>>>>
>>>> RTS
>>>> --
>>>>
>>>> *Rocky T. Squirrel, esq.*
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Ahh, yes.. that's one of the "rules" I didn't mention about getting into the program mode using installer code. Both partitions must be disarmed.
>>>
>>> I'm pretty sure a keypad homed to partition 2 can access programming, but not 100% sure on that. In any case, these are not relevant issues because in every case I have had this apparent bug crop up, it was a single partition system and there was no schedule in use or even ever programmed.
>>>
>>> This really isn't a big enough problem to torture myself with Honeywell Tech Support -- it's perfect to muse about on this newsgroup, though. And to answer the very first reply, I have installed and programmed hundreds of Vista 20 systems over the years, beginning with the very terrible Vista 20SE back in the very early 2000's. I pretty much know the program by heart; I can see its structure when I close my eyes and stare at the back of my eye lids at night. :) Since the majority of our installed base use the Vista 20P, I work with the program multiple times a day.
>>>
>>> I'm just going to chalk it up to a bug in a rare number of systems.
>>>
>>>
>> I programmed a fair number of panels during nearly 26+ years as a tech
>> and 23 years as an owner operator, but I never dreamed about programming
>> alarm panels. However... In college I put off all my COBOL74
>> programming assignments until the last few days before finals. I spent
>> a long weekend cranking out code and testing it (on a couple different
>> machines to make sure it was stable.) After day two I needed some
>> sleep, and I dreamed I was having normal conversations with people about
>> ordinary everyday things, and we were all speaking COBOL. When I woke
>> up the code just flowed from my fingertips like water from a pitcher. I
>> did more trouble free (tested on all platforms perfect first try) coding
>> in the next 3 hrs than I did in the previous two days.
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   auhh.  come on  man,    auhh,  you know,  auuh,  the thing....



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