datadiffusion

'yer we can put yous a movement detector in the new conservatory no problem, I'll get the bits next time we're down wickes...'

Throw in a can of Quatro and I'm there...

I only just noticed it wasn't just the links. Bet the phone bits as bodges after the original installation...

Walk Test function (button 5 after code)

Nah, Unset

As above keep it separate, and whats wrong with a few cans in the morning?

I thought that real boxes were polycarb, only dummy boxes should have been polyprop? Or were a lot of DIY sh1ite all polyprop anyway?

Hi, and get ready for the most thrilling, exciting security forum you've EVER experienced! (We'll let you know when we find it)

Plenty do though, esp. pubs etc...

This is a really valid point but good that the changes in V4 are being made, as I was wondering today how long it will be before WPA/WPA2 is compromised just like WEP was, especially on consumer grade routers (i.e the easiest route onto said network). However, whilst a home / domestic network is possibly the easiest to bust, it's probably the least likely to be of interest to serious tealeaves I suppose. What would be interesting are sites with poorly setup guest access via wifi, commercial type places, that use such IoT products. Once access to the network is gained via friendly means (i.e daytime) it would be no trouble to return at night with wifi access from outside the premises...

Bad example TBH as many models are as cheaply made as the rest. Miele I believe have a true vertical factory and only make their own stuff. Mines Panasonic right now, Chinese tat - but with a 7 year free warranty! Good spot, probably half the issue Isn't this Chinese stuff 433 mainly as well though?

Depends, 20 years ago I bought lots of cheap hifi stuff, endlessly upgrading and replacing, if only I'd bought the half decent stuff I still have now I'd have spent a lot less in total. It's a bit like buying 5 £199 Argos washing machines over 10 years vs. £600 for a Bosch that might last 12.

Afraid that siren alone is the giveaway sign of generic Chinese tat. Decent beams are never cheap, though to be honest the pictures of the insides are better than I'd imagined. Usually though, with equipment not designed for the UK, it will be the lack of sufficient sun hours and rain that will kill solar / outdoor stuff like this.

If accidentally 'zoom through', you get to see a nightclub where 'half man half biscuit' were playing! https://goo.gl/maps/BjZ9s7JYj7y

My parents old house still has my 'Casa' bell on, which I only put up a year before they moved, but bet you 100% the system is dissed, as it was a Scanny 816 in the house the the (old) 9800 fitted in the garage with 2 sheds on DTs My first bell with 'my' name on is still up, forgot that, that was actually a gardtec 300 but I moved on to a firm after very few, then worked for MOD, and didn't install my own stuff again until early 2000s https://goo.gl/maps/pzm1dttZzsq No. 5, inbetween PRW at No. 4 and DIY tat. at No. 6, shite pic thou. Was called 'FSEC' then as well. Circa 1995/6.

Bump.... R40 flag cell from CPC, had no idea they sold them. http://cpc.farnell.com/univercell/db8014/battery-flag-alkaline-1-5v/dp/BT05682 My first DIY install was an Advantage A1 (tat) My first takeover / service was a Scanny 9800 My first proper installation for an electrical firm was a Gardtec 816, with the old square (but seemed so ahead of it's time) LCD keypad...

Hope it was a really worthy charity... Or wait at least 2 hours for the firs false alarm if you're using the PIRs in outbuildings?

Good luck with that, since you have to go back 12 years just to get a sniff of the original website... OP, it's tat, I'd bin it. I've unwittingly taken about 5 of these out over the years, tellingly only the 2-wire sirens were ever left, I never knew the make since, for some strange reason, the control panel bits were long gone... :hmm: https://web.archive.org/web/20040401064807/http://www.tdbm.com/

Personally on a domestic, I would stick to simple. I have a 4 zone Fike Twinflex at home and even that is total overkill (although we do have a few outbuildings and an annexe).

Only the most intrepid, knowledgeable, and cunning may be trade... http://lmgtfy.com/?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thesecurityinstaller.co.uk%2Fcommunity%2Ftopic%2F40034-forum-trade-application%2F

Arf?

Like that but I remember finding the website at the time and def. wasn't BSB...

Right, fair enough. 2nd guess then; 'British DigiLock Ltd.'

As I say I'm going to guess. So, I'm going to start off by guessing 'Surrey Digital Lock Systems (1978) Ltd.' Quizmaster, am I right or wrong.

I think I can guess who it was - the same people who made the one I took out of an old BaE systems place a few years back I suspect. I posted about it at the time, and was amazed to find the company apparently still trading with a very 1990s looking website. Their products also seemed to be rebadged by Chubb at one time, and the website had the same ones I remember from banks back then including the 5 digit ones that were like 5 typewriter keys in a row, no numbers, in a folded metal case to hide your finger movements.