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Pipe and slippers?

That's fine you'll just have to pop yourself onto the floor for a bit then.

Right.. still looking down.

Whereas I look down at him....

Yeah yeah

As above I am no massive fan of the current Risco kit, despite being brought up on the company they took over's kit . But if you've got a good installer I agree see it as a service and the brand should be almost irrelevant. Let's put it this way, there is kit that people don't tend to go a bundle on, for various reasons, and terrible kit to always totally avoid, and Risco definately isn't in the terrible bin.

"Oh my god, it's full of stars...."

Oh you didn't return yours?

And, sadly, scum won't care if they injure or kill your dog either. Its not what they nick that is usually the most unplesant thing about a break-in, especially if you aren't in.

Lots of tealeaves round these parts

I'm using the (now frankly ancient, based on some old Intel Atom based ITX board intended for POS applications) Fibaro Home Center 2 (HC 3 must surely be pending, esp. since the Italian takeover) as I found that the HC Lite was bobbins, although I intend to reuse that as a secondary gateway once the annexe is finished. I have about 40 Fibaro brand devices, mostly dimmers and relays, with a few Qubino where there was no Fibaro equivalent e.g some LED downlights that only supported 0-10v dimming, and a couple of window openers. For door contacts (kept separate from alarm) I've used the flush Aeotec ones, but I do also have a few sensors where the Fibaro 'universal contact', a tiny PCB with flywires, sits neatly hidden behind, it piggybacks on the sensor and emulates the state of it's contacts via a tiny relay on the board. It's easier to do this on sensors because there is the 12v supply and the space, of course. I've a few fibaro fobs, but find we hardly ever use them. TBF given my experiences with the system, though it is much more stable now, I'd never trust it with smoke alarms let alone intruder! I've learnt now that if you can do anything with direct association, e.g PIR sensor for hallway lights, do it that way in case the HC blows up. It's also less load on the HC and switching is instant, not the sometimes 1s delay. A lot of the scenes need doing properly, e.g. in code not blocks, but that can wait. Heres a shot of the HC2 homepage, showing abot half the devices.

Sounds like Pete has a Floureon system at home

On the average UK house (what is it, 250k now?) I have literally no idea why anyone would think anything under a grand was 'too dear'. As norm says, it's a fraction of the house value and peanuts compared to all the frivolous (and ironically desirable to burglar) stuff most people hapilly fritter their hard earned cash on. Most, not all, agreed, for various reasons.

Yep, hurry, only 997 downloads left!

Bloody hell. An item from the paper catalogues of yore that somehow, even if it has long since been discontinued, made it to the interwebs. I remember the first ever RS CD-ROM catalogue (1994?) which had all the manuals and pictures for the white, metal cased, keyswitch 1 and 2 zone alarm panels they still just about sold under the 'RS' own brand. It was so far ahead of it's time it pretty much was the ONLY thing ever consistantly in the CD-ROM slot! No, he paid 99p for it from a seller called 'YaLeti' on eBay.

Yep, don't discount it. The number of 'tested no fault' Amazon Warehouse items I buy that come with a full detailed list of the (irrepairable) fault still inside!

Yeah same panel returned to CTS, barely tested beyond powering up, and sold as working I expect!

I also had this once except this was an 'engineer' early VDSL BB install (I don't think they do these now for VDSL). In anticipation of VDSL I had privately obtained the latest type of official OpenReach filter. I wired the customers modem/router directly via the unfiltered block in the NTE and the then-PTSN Webway and phone to the filtered part. F**kwit engineer comes along, disconnects all wiring punched down at NTE, tells customer they need to move phone and DSL to lobby. Webway PTSN goes down, I get called out to find the above Reverted to how it was and never had an issue since. Well, WW PTSN long gone now but broadband is fine

It sounds wired but I wasn't sure if it was perhaps wireless and unable to communicate with detectors prior to setting. However, I guess it would have plainly said that on the RKP...

Confession time, no! The property I go to is right on the edge, to be honest perhaps Tunley would be more accurate, but I do go right through the main part of Timsbury and out the other side again. Am I being blatently ignorant* Red is my route in from WsM, is it A, B or neither? *TSI regulars find themselves sadly ineligible to contribute towards answering this There are a few similarities but unfortunately when stumped you can't just swap spare parts over from the ambulance 'just to see if it makes things better' Although I suppose the only exception to this I've ever experienced would be a tracheal stoma!! Oddly most surgeries we get called to at 5.45 on a Friday for the P1 IMMEDIATE LIFE THREAT patient (always to be found sat in waiting room, letter in hand) aren't having real emergencies either Statistically insignificant

They're like that up North

All wired, no wireless detectors?

I think it depends as I am certain you could just about still buy them with the newer white 'no flap' keypad and optional 16 zone board (9800+) in 2000, but probably not long after that. Either way, 20 yrs+, at best. Am I right in thinking the above Abacus supported wireless natively?

This is it, I was reminded this morning I've been an Amazon customer for 20 years, it's probably older than you/the poster think truth kills man

Agreed, I suppose it's one of the better / more advanced old ones, I'm not saying it's binworthy regardless but most of the plastic versions of Abacus really are on their last legs PSU-wise, the ones I see anyway.