Guest RJBsec Posted February 19, 2009 Posted February 19, 2009 I prefer a local installer, rather than a National one like ADT. But even then, how can you be sure?! You can never be sure, but ask for some customer references or speak with neighbours or friends about service they've had from approved companies. I'm going to say that in general terms a smaller company will have greater accountability, with large companies you may never see the same engineer twice! Could either of these panels be locked out by the installer? Both panels can be set to 'Engineer Reset' and they would be for a police response system - perfectly normal. Gardtec have a lockout facility that the engineer can use, Galaxy G2 does not - IMO a lockout facility is dubious but others would disagree with me.
alterEGO Posted February 19, 2009 Posted February 19, 2009 The panel choice is down to the installer, they are the ones who have to support it. Although the Gardtec can be locked, it can also be unlocked. For what its worth both panels are good, and both would do the job with ease. For what its worth our choice would be the Gardtec, although we would probabbly use the 595 or 816 for more room in the panel.
the-oneil Posted February 19, 2009 Author Posted February 19, 2009 Galaxy will allow text messaging as well as full monitoring option. Am i right to assume that for this to work, i need to provide a SIM card to be placed somewhere inside the panel? If so, would any Network do? Can I replace the SIM card myself later on, if I need to?
whistle Posted February 19, 2009 Posted February 19, 2009 No you dont need a sim card. The panel is connected to your phone line and dials your service provider and sends a text.
Guest old-hand Posted February 19, 2009 Posted February 19, 2009 No you dont need a sim card. The panel is connected to your phone line and dials your service provider and sends a text. It dials any service provider you want, well as long as it it the T-Mobile or Orange message centre. Anyone use other centre numbers?
the-oneil Posted February 19, 2009 Author Posted February 19, 2009 No you dont need a sim card. The panel is connected to your phone line and dials your service provider and sends a text. Hold on!! I thought the advantage of the text message was, that if the phone line is cut or dead, you'd still be notified by text message. If the text is sent using the phone line, then it is effectively a speech dialer? Is it true, that the text received would indicate which zone was triggered or if the smoke alarm is connected to the system, would the text message indicate this?
james.wilson Posted February 19, 2009 Posted February 19, 2009 hang on here forget the gsm for a moment and especially texting. IMO its a poor signalling method and texts do get lost / delayed. if you tralking about dual pathc signalling (ie dualcom or redcare gsm) then these will use gsm to send messgaes to the arc in the event of a line cut. Nothing to do with texting a normal handset. This is a monitored and polled path. but thats doing it properly the g2-20 has a built in modem that is caperble with the correct programming of sending a text to a consumer mobile phone (usually for the benefit of sending additional info to the keyholder as well as the normal arc signal) via the std tel line. The g2-44 can do thisa also but can also have a gsm module to send this signal over gsm rather than land line. However if your using proper dual path signalling then you dont need the gsm module as its a cost (ie sim contract in addition to yout dual path communicator) you dont need. James securitywarehouse Security Supplies from Security Warehouse Trade Members please contact us for your TSI vetted trade discount.
the-oneil Posted February 19, 2009 Author Posted February 19, 2009 hang on hereforget the gsm for a moment and especially texting. IMO its a poor signalling method and texts do get lost / delayed. if you tralking about dual pathc signalling (ie dualcom or redcare gsm) then these will use gsm to send messgaes to the arc in the event of a line cut. Nothing to do with texting a normal handset. This is a monitored and polled path. but thats doing it properly the g2-20 has a built in modem that is caperble with the correct programming of sending a text to a consumer mobile phone (usually for the benefit of sending additional info to the keyholder as well as the normal arc signal) via the std tel line. The g2-44 can do thisa also but can also have a gsm module to send this signal over gsm rather than land line. However if your using proper dual path signalling then you dont need the gsm module as its a cost (ie sim contract in addition to yout dual path communicator) you dont need. James Let's see if i got this right Both G2-20 & G2-44 come with a built in modem that can send texts using the BT Landline. These texts contains additional information pertaining to the reason for the Alarm (I am assuming something like which zone was triggered). These texts are unreliable as they are sent using a landline. Only the G2-44 can have a GSM module (I am assuming as an optional extra) that would send a signal over GSM; which means it will require a SIM card to be placed inside the panel. Correct? Sorry, I am just a layman
james.wilson Posted February 19, 2009 Posted February 19, 2009 yes you are correct, but they are both as reliable as each other ie landline/gsm its the message centre and network that causes the delay, loss of message or expiry of message. just dont use it as your primary signalling means is all im saying securitywarehouse Security Supplies from Security Warehouse Trade Members please contact us for your TSI vetted trade discount.
the-oneil Posted February 19, 2009 Author Posted February 19, 2009 yes you are correct, but they are both as reliable as each other ie landline/gsmits the message centre and network that causes the delay, loss of message or expiry of message. just dont use it as your primary signalling means is all im saying Thank you very much for clarifying this. Could this feature be used alongside a speechdialer? Meaning, in case of an activation,the system calls 3 numbers and send texts?
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