PeterJames

Bonjour

Is anyone else using their alarm to control their lights and stuff? In my last house I automated stuff and controlled it using Galaxy gold, but everytime I wanted to switch something on or off remotely I had to find an internet connection for my laptop or connect my lappy to my mobile. No suh thing as apps and 3g back then. This house is far better my wife doesnt like all the tech but I being an techy idiot luv it, I love saying to Alexa movie night and watch the TV come on on the Netlfliks channel the curtains close the lights go out and the room goes purple, and my surround sound amm changes to TV mode. I have always connected my hall lights up to my alarm, I remember the first time I saw this on an old Castle 1250, it had a mains relay wired to an output when the alarm went off the lights came on. It struck me as a really good idea, if you had just broken in and the lights came on you would think that someone is in and has heard you and are on their way to catch you. Before I had hard wire lights up now its just a case of swapping the light switch and using a txer. More recently (now my kids are teenage) I have come down in the morning and have found that the kids have left the kitchen or lounge lights on all night, and so I wired an wireless txer to the alarm so that whenever it is part set or full set it switch's all the lights off in the house. When I was at James house the other month he was using smartlights on his alarm to switch on the external lights when he opened the back door, I quite liked that idea.

Hi just for clarity a pir works using passive infra red to detect movement of heat, if the ambient temp is high then it will struggle to detect. A dual technology detector is two different types of detection in one Microwave which uses radar dopler to detect, and passive infra red, both radar doplar and the passive infra red have to detect before the detector activates. Which means you will still have the same problem with it not detecting. Not familiar with the Pyronix tat so I could be wrong but surely all new kit is two way technology, therefore the detector wont be working while the alarm is unset anyway? HKC is the only manufacturer that makes a wireless DT not that it would work in your situ

Yeah I think it might be you

In order to fix your issues you first have to understand that you have them. Many people think that its everyone else who has the problem, I employed someone like that once

No we know who he is, he is well off

Sadly people like him think that everyone else is like themselves, he apparently is actually quite well off. But its about how it got to be well off that defines his personality. If you made your fortune by ripping people off, you think that is what everyone else is doing it. As opposed to people that have worked hard all their lives to make their money who do understand, what goes into quality workmanship, and understand the value of hard work. He thinks that everyone else is like him and trying to rip him off, but nobody is forcing him to buy from us or take our advice. I got a quote on Friday to get my Merc ceramic coated and valeted, I asked the guy if the car needed machine polishing first(an extra £150.00 worth of work) the chap said no once I have gone over it with the clay bar I will hand polish out any minor scratches. He could have easily said yes I would have not known any difference but that is an example of the sort of advice you get from someone that works for a living. I like to think that I would always give the same sort of advice when it comes to security, I never sell detection where its not required.

The thought of him not being able to even find this forum again, combined with the frustration of knowing its sill hear should give you that warm fuzzy feeling that you get when an angel cries

Guess who pressed the ban button

You seem to have some sort of dyslexia where you read what Ive said and interpret it a different way.

Speak for yourself, Im here for the free beer and the abuse.

No I quite enjoy making idiots like you look even more like an idiot, if I was annoyed I would have just pressed the ban button.

I didn't say I had £2k in my wallet I just said it would fit, as opposed to your idea of £2k filling a suitcase which it wouldnt (unless it was a very small suitcase) Your the only numb nut round here that's compensating for the lack of something.

What do the batteries say on them? number wise

Well its you that living in the 90's pal either that or your suitcases are vey small, because I can get £2k in my wallet

Im sorry to have to tell you this Paul, but those old £1.00 notes are no longer legal tender.

Yeah I dont know anyone with a 30 year old TV or a 5 year old mobile phone, yet people moan when their alarm is obsolete after 15 years

Goldfish rights perhaps

Grr Im not 75 or anywhere near it !! 55 and semi retired

If you have no code for it, and you dont know what your doing then my advice would be to leave it alone and get someone that does. They are good little panels if they have been regularly serviced but if they havent been touched for a few years then the charging circuit gets knackered by the dead battery, then the panel becomes useless

Hi and welcome, dont worry about the 2 years experience at age 35, we love late bloomers here

Hi and welcome

Which is weird because alarm cable was cheaper than BT back then

Call me old fashioned, but if it says low battery in the hallway then surely its the battery in the detector in the hallway

You dont mind strangers looking at your ring?