sixwheeledbeast

I hope you have PSU's on the system too and it's not all running off the panel. If all the zones are closed i see no reason why the system shouldn't set. Parts set are pretty straight forward you need to get the system arming first.

Anything that is connected to the internet has a risk. As engineers we do our best to keep things secure and hope that the manufacturers have made secure ways to deploy them. People expect to be able to plug anything in with no care for if it will be exploited down the line, no software updates or maintenance. I would actually agree with Logan and say that I wouldn't want a security system connected to the internet. Especially considering what people call "smart" at the moment, isn't what it's cracked up to be.

Unless it's one of those cheap 1 way ones with supervision switched off.

Yep and cranking the sensitivity to maximum would just create false alarms.

Security systems need bespoke design, there is so much to think about it's an important part of the job when you get someone in to assess the risk of the property. There is only so much advice you can give without seeing the site. General rule of thumb from what you have said above, you need to protect all rooms on the ground floor plus any higher risk upstairs rooms. If you have pets, any room they are in while you need the alarm set would be best to have perimeter protection over motion detection, this makes appropriate coverage more expensive. Contacts will only operate if the fixture it's mounted to is opened as intended.

Similar they mostly sell as kit's anyway.

Made no sense to have so many products that do the same thing. 64W made sense IMO.

I'd use an Elite 64-W LIVE with either prox tags or smartkeys myself but I imagine everyone has there own preferred equipment.

Wrong on so many levels

Considering the mix up just with just your speaker, I would think twice about DIY. Unless your willing to take the risk of many hours/weeks learning on the job and no guarantee of a working alarm at the end of it. Words of caution if you do DIY:- External bell strobe unit has very high voltage, this and having to disconnect a sounding box on the wall up a ladder is not the most pleasant experience when you have no idea what you are doing. Be careful. Obviously the control box has mains voltage in best to isolate if your not good with electrics.

Yep common misconception that power cuts should make the external alarm activate. It actually means the system hasn't been serviced and isn't working correctly.

No knowledge on positioning, images are poor. Interesting how the image is inverted, I'd say that's intentional. As for the others it's a shame people seem proud of poor workmanship.

The fixed root password has been leaked on Sannce kit, give it a month or so and it will fuel the botnets.

The cost of basic CCTV is:- Your privacy - basic systems are likely to be hacked or have known exploits, have no maintenance or software updates going forward. Your internet - hacked systems generally become part of a botnet where they use all your bandwidth and grind your internet speed to nothing. Your electricity - Fancy mining bitcoins for someone else? Even if your system isn't exploited to mine bitcoins, what use is basic when you need to use it in evidence. Your time - it's likely DIY or basic CCTV will fail and have no support. Your money - you could have put that towards something that would be useful in an event. Many people have gone basic and regretted it after an event. I'd expect 4 cameras to be at least 1k if it's anything upto a spec worth fitting.

Metal Grade 3 edition, not what I was expecting from thread above...

The government website there is just a summary, nothing is vague it's all in the legislation.

Non illuminated bells are fine as they are small enough to be permitted under the town and planning act. Illuminated bells have no permission like this they are all included no matter the size.

You do realise that you will need to apply for planning permission if you have a signwritten illuminated box. Unless your in some sort of closed private communal area where it is not in public viewing. https://www.gov.uk/guidance/advertisements If you are not planning on having a company maintain your system and will DIY going forward I would suggest you either:- Leave it blank as it's not worth the hassle and offers no extra security in this instance. Apply for planning permission for your lightbox sign, before looking around for second hand boxes or just inserts on selling sites.

If you don't mind the terminal strip floating around yer.

There's not much to it, you either send it back and have to wait and pay again or... a) remove all the electronics from both cases and swap them over b) snip all the black wires on the new unit close to the PCB, remove PCB fit and wire the terminal blocks like in the original.

It will not work using a sounder where you need a speaker and the casing is the same. On that one you could even reuse the speaker as they are the same impedance.

If you want you can reuse the old electronics in the new casing, it's likely not worth the cost to send back and replace for the right model. Just be careful you don't break anything when swapping the insides over.

You have a Soint loudspeaker and have purchased a Soint sounder. It there a reason for replacing it?

I agree but maybe handy if you service UPS's

Sounds like the tamper switch has gone faulty in the bell. I think you need to consider bringing this new system forward if you can. You will most likely end up disconnecting it from the panel and breaking it off the wall. Just disconnecting it from the panel will trigger it, best case 15 minutes of sounding worse case until the battery dies.