Chiron Iris 850 - Any Good?

[stubs]

Does anyone on here have any experience with the Chiron Iris 850?

I've currently got a Texecom dialler installed at home, but it doesn't do SMS so I started to look around for an alternative.

I happened to hear about the Chiron Iris, just as I spotted one advertised on a popular auction site, brand new for a very low price.

If it is a good product, could anyone also reccomend a good SIM deal that I could use. I only want it to alert myself by SMS of any alarms, and accept incoming SMS requests. Is PAYG the best option, or are there any deals with free SMS to an opted number?

Many thanks,

Stu

[james.wilson]

I dont think you can run them stand alone. It needs to poll an ARC, isnt it an IP GPRS communicator?

[stubs]

Really?

The installation manual says that it has GSM backup for sending & recieving text messages. Will this not work if the unit isn't configured to poll an ARC?

What about if I were to setup one of the server at my office to recieve the polls via IP?

It's no great loss if it can't be used, it didn't costmuch at all

[james.wilson]

well id of thought it can do that, but needs an active contract to work. Dont know though dont know the unit.

[stubs]

Damn

Oh well.

[stubs]

It turned up yesterday... turns out it's brand new and boxed, and it only cost me 99p plus postage, so little loss if I can't get it to work.

If I'm not too hung over on Sunday I'll have a play with it and report back on my findings.

From having a read on the Chiron website, I can't see anything about needing to pay them to use the device. I think you may need to pay for the ARC recieving software, but I can live without this.

I've already got a Texecom dialler, but it's not the SMS version. I was going to buy the text & speech model but for 99p I thought I'd take the chance with the Chiron. If it works, I get the added benefit that I have dual path.