datadiffusion

Mostly... Welcome Ron, what makes of systems have you fitted so far?

It is, but not a new thing, most systems wont let you in until unset, right? I know this would still stop PAs etc... so still not great.

If it's a significant cost that makes sense, and I certainly wouldn't consider DC on a new installation myself.

Would depend on the cost of the module I suppose...

Yeah deffo looks like it.

Not in the sense there is no dial capture, and no way to add by the seems of it, unlike other models. I know Jim said the cost of such ICs, now becoming outdated, forced it to be an optional extra at the time on the main range, but assume CSL must be picking them up relatively cheap. I grant you Dial Capture is rather outdated but would have been nice for those with existing estates that don't support direct serial connections.

So targeted at 'UDL only' users as much as actual monitoring? I'd have to say this could be a step in the right direction - sadly, in a way, for domestic. Where they won't pay for monitoring but you don't want to have to call round when they decide the entry timer isn't long enough etc...

You've saved me the bother of actually looking up the customer record, despite me being sat at my actual work PC with all the files open

Its the plastic one with LCD rkp on board, from memory there is the main PCB that sits right out front, then a secondary PCB behind with PSU stuff on?? Either way it seems to be getting hot, hot, hot, although most of the dmaage was probably done in the 7 or so years before I first started servicing it when it had a shonky 'POWERBAND' dead chinoise battery in it.

I don't know for sure - I was just making an assumption the metal version would be much better at dealing with heat, I suspect things aren't packed in as much. Everyone that used to install them holds them in good regard As above the best advice is to make sure the system is well serviced particularly wrt to the battery. And, measuring the voltage on the battery isn't a good test of it's state, unfortunately, you will need to do a load test, eithe rmanually or with a proprietary device such as a ACT IBT.

There was some bloke with a business in London on the radio who does wooden windows etc... saying how he'd had to move 3 times in 5 years as every time he rents a unit it gets sold off and turned into housing sooner or later. Saying he is getting pushed so far out of London he can't be arsed to serve London if he gets pushed any further out...

I would, its an alert you want not an alarm, and certainly better to have one you can rename to make more sense, I.e a zone.

Yes, now I remeber the zone splitting pirs from the RS catalogue too!

I missed the bit about battery disconnected! No wonder...

peardrops - what they? Amusing, to a point, that after Bosch hoovered up DA they now don't market a single intruder system in the UK.

That reminds me, as a contractor we had this dickhead, who was the owners mate, wanting us to put a cam on the telegraph pole outside his single story furniture workshop. It was almost touching the front corner so would have been good, but I knew it wasn't a goer. He kept insisting that any minute his mate would be over, who worked for BT (as was) and would say it was all alright. I kept telling him it would be unheard of for that to be allowed and even if his 'mate' said it would be OK I would be uneasy doing it. 5 hours into the job (there were other cameras to fit) his mate turns up and says he must have misunderstood, and no way could we fit a camera to the pole (surprise surprise). He then fecks off early in a huff, with his lads laughing behind his back, ha ha!

On the Elmdene the G3 'extra checking' has been a PIA regards seemingly false alerts. All disabled now as site is only G2.

Metal cased or all-in-one plastic jobbie? The ones I look after have a separate 'DC' board and that's what's getting hot. It's really tightly packed in, I imagine the metal case version (which I've never seen in real life) doesn't suffer in the same way. They do seem otherwise very well made. Couldn't you double each zone or something with a 'splitter'? Remember them on RS. Or was it just a glorified junction box which turned CC + Tamp into two DEOL zones with resistors in the box rather than on the device???

I am confused about the '5 hours' significance?

Get this all the time with BT tat - lucky all local sites other than Webways which obv don't suffer. They just seem to 'forget' the settings over time, poss after automatic fw upgrades.

Plus the fact that I look after a couple of these and the PSUs are looking decidedly 'hot'. They won't last much longer, owners have been warned last 2 years running. I can just imagine a 2nd keypad pushing it over the edge...

I'm confused I thought the 'Auxilliary Tamper' on a Texecom was just a pair of terminals for a NC, non EOL circuit used for comms housings etc... Isn't there usually a wire link in those terminals from the factory - has it come loose? I forget if it can be disabled via programming (I'm sure it can).

Used free pbx which is a complete ready to run build. Tried compiling it myself but 2h in hit the wall when asterisk would start due to some missing pid file, another known issue apparently but the given fix didn't work.

It just redirects to Rs or Farnell. All the boxes are marked Farnell or RS anyway, I don't think they get any more or less cash regardless. Pi2 is now powerful enough to run W10 though - 4 times faster than the old one... Admittedly an odd / cumbersome form factor though.

Ah yes Polycom seems highly regarded... It is but more price fixed than apple. Amazon have tons in stock and most likely at a regional warehouse near you for immediate dispatch If its £29 its the right one! You have 29 minutes to order for tomorrow (but that might be as were close to the cardiff depot) http://www.amazon.co.uk/Raspberry-Model-Desktop-Quad-Linux/dp/B00T2U7R7I/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1433699319&sr=8-1&keywords=raspberry+pi+2 Also get a 8gb / 16gb micro sd card, although 4gb will do for playing about. As you're not attatching silly things a PC USB A to micro cable might just do for a PSU, although any decent micro usb wall job will do.