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  1. Its love island bronze actually"
  2. If the battery hasnt been replaced in 22 years its probably cooked. It will normally say "alarm" on the keypad when you switch it off press yes (or it might be press no) and it should tell you what activated it. If the battery has cooked, the charging circuit will be pulled down which may have knackered the non volatile memory. So when you had the powercut the panel forgot everything. So when you part set the alarm it didnt know what zones where supposed to be omitted and didnt omit any so if its the bedroom or landing detectors that activated, its time for a new panel
  3. Tasmota it and stick it on HA it will be fine !
  4. Circa £40.00 on ali express https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005003735491158.html?spm=a2g0o.productlist.main.3.51066d580Wdc1y&algo_pvid=fcafbac2-a0ed-4224-836c-9961699468fa&algo_exp_id=fcafbac2-a0ed-4224-836c-9961699468fa-1&pdp_ext_f={"sku_id"%3A"12000026979349599"}&pdp_npi=2%40dis!GBP!85.76!43.74!!!!!%40211bda9b16714881671228733d0750!12000026979349599!sea&curPageLogUid=A1vO9z52cUt1 Though you need a sonoff relay to swich the heating on and off another £10.00. they also need live and neg to work. Ive tasmota'd mine and run them in Home Assistant but you can use the welink app
  5. I am using my light switch's https://ewelinkstore.com/product/sonoff-nspanel-2-gang-smart-wifi-wall-switch-with-led-panel-thermostat-and-smart-scene-switch-feature/?v=fa868488740a
  6. Mostly locksmiths and photo copiers shops installing it round these parts. I understand why people would use their local locksmith to install alarm tat, but photocopying shops selling alarms and CCTV on the side just seems bizarre
  7. A broke clock is right twice a day, but you cant rely on it to be right when you need it to be
  8. You never nissan we keep giving you advice and you no nissan!
  9. What makes you think its the keypad?
  10. Its cus you no nissan!
  11. It seems to take forever to get it transfered and it cost about £20k Ive been waiting months for my £10 million and Ive paid out £5k a time to try and speed things up but it doesnt seem to work, just a few more days and Ill be a millionsaire
  12. One year I was photographed for an advert the yellow pages for two different alarm companies, the co I used to work for had pics taken not long before I left, and then the co I currently worked for did the same. Nobody asked if I worked for both co's or if the co's were affiliated, though a surprising amount of customers commented to me about it at the time. Risco and Pyronix are two completely different alarm companies, they may have used the same images in their literature but that is as far as it goes
  13. External keypad is your problem, they are not IP rated and are supposed to be mounted internally not externally
  14. probably pressed the panic button, put the key in and turn it till the little window goes green. Just a note, if your selling your house its likely that the buyers solicitor will ask about service history, and certificates for the alarm. Its probably not a deal breaker but anything that cam put your buyers off in this climate is not good
  15. Not sure that you have seen or used all the apps, I accept that the free ones will work most of the time, after all a stopped clock is right twice a day Define planned, most that I see have some planning, ie they know when the the kids are being picked up from school, or when the occupants are away. I have been to too many houses that were burgled while the owners were having their two weeks in the sun, tell me thats not planned. Opportunist burglaries are usually due to something like a window left open or seeing someone leaving the house. GSM dialer cant tell you when its not working, a dualcom is polled every hour or every 20 min depending on the grade, the arC will call keyholders when it fails to pole, if you have a gsm dialler you are blissfully unaware. I have had customers that regularly forgot to top up their PAYG sim in their dialer. You are beginning to turn into Arfur, Logan
  16. Fixed! According to the FB security forums most of the free ones have been down at one time or another. Many of them are now charging for their apps, to fund their costs. Bear in mind in order for someone to get something for nothing, someone is getting nothing for something. A business cannot afford to continue to spend money on servers and electricity to run them for nothing in return, and all the while they are supplying this service for free they have no motivation to fix it quickly when it goes wrong.
  17. Only if its working when you need it to. People come here for advice, if we just said yeah that'l do and then they were burgled because the system failed then we would not be providing good advice would we. If something is unreliable, we should say so, and we all know that the free apps have been very unreliable.
  18. Removing two external sounders diy what could possibly go wrong..... Take mr H's advice, or have the pointing done around them if you really cant afford an engineer. It would just save you falling out with your neighbours.
  19. Hi and welcome to the forum. There are a number of ways you could do this using ir beams. or ground loops. But I think most decent CCTV manufacturers would have this covered with something like vehicle counting vehicle detection and ANPR. Ground loops would probably be the most reliable method of detection
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  22. It not your fuse box doing it. The siren is not supposed to sound when the power is tripped, could you imagine the chaos if this happened to every alarm in your street in a power cut. There is a battery in the bell that is designed to make the external sounder sound when there is no connection from the control panel. The panel is constantly supplying voltage to the external sounder, if it loses the voltage like when someone cuts the wire going to the sounder the battery then takes over and the sounder sounds. The panel also has a battery inside, this battery keeps the panel powered in a powercut, this also means that the panel is able to keep the voltage going to the external sounder thus preventing it from sounding in a powercut. The fault you describe, your external sounder sounding in a powercut, there is something wrong, as above probably battery or battery fuse or charging circuit. The sounder intermittently sounding is a symptom of the fault, not the fault, to test if the sounder is good, with the power on set the alarm off by aring it and walking into the armed area. If the sounder sounds as it should, then you need to get someone that knows what they are doing to take a proper look and make a proper diagnosis of what is actually wrong.
  23. I reckon he is another Aaron, starts of like he has and builds himself a nice little empire, I agree working for someone else is how you learn the trade and earn some cash, thats how most of us started our empires, and our bosses before us.
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