[Use ADT alarm as stand alone system]

ADT are asking for £180, which is a lot  for switching to stand alone which will probably take a few minutes. And difficult to pay this amount anyway as we have limited income due to the current covid situation, like a lot of persons. So we thought we 'll give a try to modify the alarm system ourselves. If anyone has any guidance or advise on how to switch an ADT alarm to stand alone mode, it would be very appreciated.

We dont want to add any devices, just stop the alarm trying to reach ADT to keep the system as bell only.

Thank you

Ben 

 

[Use ADT alarm as stand alone system]

Good morning  all,

We bought an ADT alarm (monitored system ) a few years ago and were told at the time by the salesman that it would be free to use our equipments as bell only alarm once the 18 months monitoring contract expires... Since we discovered that ADT are advising that they need to send an engineer (and charge quite a fortune for it!) to modify the system to be use as stand alone . I guess it just need to tell the alarm to stop trying to reach ADT network...

Would any of you please know how to modify an ADT alarm to be used as a stand alone system ? 

Currently we can see the error message " not ready trbl. gsm net fail" and we are unable to set up the alarm.

Thank you

Ben 

 

[jimmyhunt]

On 16/07/2020 at 12:53, jimmyhunt said:

Hi, an update for the forum.. I did some further research and decided to try something. I removed the GSM module from the unit and connected via Alarm Install app and confirmed GSM module had been removed when the system identified it was, Currently all the system errors have been cleared and the system sets and unsets as expected. 

Pretty pleased to be honest, I have learnt so much trying to solve this one

Changed Batteries

Discovered Alarm install and accessed control panel

Cleared Tampers troubles 

Removed GSM unit and cleared GSM Net Fail.

 

Found this whole experience quite frustrating in regards to industry support for these units, but also really interesting solving each step myself. 

 

Hope this helps someone else going forward 

 

Hello,

Thank you for sharing your experience, we are in the same situation... we were told by an ADT salesman that we could use our alarm system as bell only for free after the end of our monitoring contract... now we discovered that ADT are charging quite a fortune to modify the system to work as stand alone ! 

Could you please give us further details on how you achieve to modify your alarm? What is "alarm install", an app? Hiw did you clear the error message on the alarm ? (We also have gsm net fail) ? What did the gsm unit look like?

Thank you a lot in advance

Ben