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Looking for a wifi door bell with an intercom and preferably a camera as well. Any ideas?

Hi guys looking for advise on a cctv install i need 2 cams to view around 20m and 2 around 10m also nvr ,ive been told 2 bullet and 2 dome 3-10 varifocal ip cams brands that have been suggested are hikvision and videcon,i want to be able to read a numberplate at 20m and face recognition if poss also there will be some security lighting fitted thanks any help appreciated

Hi Team, I got this box from ebay and then got the keypad from a different person again off ebay. i managed to get the manual but having problems to connect the pir. Can anyone advise pls. I

Hi everyone just wondering if you can help me out i fitted a gardtec 490 x on my house a few months ago all will eol resistors which all worked perfectly and systems is really good, my sister.wanted me to do a system on her house but i ordered the 480 as she did not require the telephone connection , on this panel it does not accept eol so everything has to be wired as 2x power 2x alarm 2x tamper but the global tamper is really confusing me there is a diagram in the manual of how to do it and i have followed it but i still keep getting tamper fault when i take all the tamper wires and connect them together ie all greens together and all whites together and put them in th…

A few years back I installed two systems in two different houses, one has 2 external sounders the other has one... I can't remember exactly but I think they are Elmdene. These boxes are looking old and tatty now and although they still work and their comfort LEDs flash nicely I think more deterent effect would be gained by refreshing them. Originally I marked the boxes with a Logo, contact number etc. to make them look bona-fide. I did this by hand using a stencil and the effect was OK but not good and with time looks a bit unconvincing. Silkscreen printing is probably prohibitive due to the low volume i.e. 3. Any idea how to get a convincing effect that la…

I am trying to install a risk Iwise RK815DTG3 sensor onto a honeywell galaxy flex panel. The anitmasking mentions 12K resistor, which is selectable on the risco sensor, but this seems to be a combined fault and antimask. The wiring diagram in the flex manual shows the as separate switches - one for the fault (3K resistor) and one for the anti-mask (12K). Any ideas of how I wire this.

Hi, First of all hello! I have a regent alarm panel and scantronic 9427. I want to replace panel and keypad. I have 5 pir's two door contacts, also two door contacts in garage and another key pad in the garage. What panel and keypads do you suggest? I was think accenta g4 metal case one? Can anyone suggest a good panel and keypad that is reliable and I could diy fit? Also I am thinking about the dialler option which I can see if you add the informa will do on the accenta.

I have an Avanti XP with the LCD panel. It's been working fine for years My problem is that the LCD control panel seems to have crashed, it shows a message but none of the keys do anything. What I need to do is reboot it, just like a Ctrl-Alt-Del on a PC. Is there a key sequence that does this or is my only option to turn off the power to the main control box, open it and remove the backup battery for a few seconds? Obviously the alarm will be set off by this process

Hello all, I have a texecom veritas excel connected to a texecom speech dialler. I have a pir in each main area of the house. The garage has its own PIR on its own zone. I would like the garage zone to have its own trigger to the phone dialler. So I would be able to distinguish a garage break in from a whole house break in. The only way I can see of doing this is by making the garage zone a Fire zone but of course this won't work as this will mean its armed all the time and if I go in to the garage I would always set it off. Is there another way of having the garage zone trigger a different message? Thanks all Vincent

Need a bit of help, I purchased a hd-sdi camera to see what is quality was like, I did get a hd-sdi to hdmi converter but it didn't work so I purchased a dvr to check the camera but it only displays a load of coloured lines across the channel 1 box, I have spoke to the shop who I bought the dvr from and he said I have to adjust the camera settings on the little joystick attached to the camera but how can I do this if I cant see what it says on the screen. I don't know if the dvr is **** or the camera is playing up, any help would be much appreciated? thanks Dan

Hi all, We are looking to move into a new property soon and I am researching the options with regards alarming the property. I think I have narrowed it down to either a Galaxy Dimension or G2 OR Texecom Premier. I will be DIY'ing it - I am a network engineer by trade and have previously been a telecoms engineer and electrical engineer. I need it to protect numerous house zones (which isn't an issue) but also a detached workshop and an additional outbuilding. Getting cabling to the outbuildings isn't a problem (underground ducting is in place). In a normal disarm situation the outbuildings will need to remain armed and protected but with an option of disa…

Hi, can someone help? I have an Accord XPC panel. The internal alarm went off on Sunday while I was out. My neighbour told me when I got home and I noticed that it was zone 5, the CO detector. I thought it was a one off but then it went off again Sunday night when we were all asleep. Then again about 5 times yesterday evening so I ended up sleeping on the sofa in case it went off again during the night - which it didn't . I came home tonight and it was going off again! I have the manual and know the engineer code but can't work out how to turn the system off completely until I can get someone round to look at it. At first I thought I could turn off zone 5 bu…

Has anyone installed a Smoke Cloak 4000 series horizontally (say in a ceiling void)? They are bug-ugly bits of kit and want to hide it as much as possible. Will obviously provide a cutout in the ceiling to let the 'fog' out..... Can the fluid still be seated upright in the device (when horizontal - to stop spillage), or should I opt for one of the 45 degree filler cap ones? Vangellis

Wanted to add some external active beams. The Risco ones seemed to be cheap - so was wondering if they are any good?

hi all just replaced the pannel at my perants. all good apart from my internal speaker, no sound at all from it at all, it's a 16 ohm unit, Iv double checked all wireing and I'm in the speaker connections on th board, I have tested the speaker and it good, I have also checked the vol pot on the board and still no joy any one got any ideas ?