Don't disagree arf but as I keep getting told. Remember the golden rules, the one with the gold writes the rules and as compliance is mandatory to get a urn even if I think they are bollox I adhere to them to get what I need.
Hang tight, there are a few galaxy fans here who have probably used them. I'm presuming the process is the same as the door, pir, dt and flood which is out the panel into learn and then tamper it so i presume the vibrios the same but I don't want to misguide you as I've not personally done it myself.
Only having 8 portals maximum on a system proved a real problem for us for commercial stuff. We installed about 100 portals and then moved away from galaxy. The stuff we have out there such as rf floods and dt's seem to work ok but had a few radio polling fails over very short distance beaten portal and device and in open air.
Yes, just wire it as a standard rio and when you exit engineers it will say x modules added. Rf portal can take up to 3 rio addresses depending how you set it up in the programming.
It's easy enough on a GD. Each RF portal is seen as RIO's and you can tell it how many rio addresses you want to take up.
It's a case of putting the panel into learn and tampering the device and all is well. Program everything else as a normal zone.
You can't choose the code you quote to the arc, the remote reset unit decides that but most seasoned end users are clued up on the things to say to get a remote reset so you could generate some alarms, call the arc and get the resets for 'valid' reasons and you would have enough code and anticodes to do your maths.
I was referring to the list of manufacturers cg that you did where texecom was on the top end. What I found interesting is the order you put the manufacturers in based on the tests you had done is the same order thereabouts that I'd have expected most experienced engineers to write without any of your knowledge just based on gut feel from having to support the products in the wild.