Hi Guys,

I run a small company which has several small premises in the UK. We have a number of panels installed (Galaxy and Menvier) which we installed and maintain ourselves; I also have a Galaxy16 at home. We're all engineers so this is not a huge problem for us. This forum was very helpful a while ago in answering some setup issues on the Galaxy16.

The systems have all proved very reliable and we'd like to continue working this way, rather than have the systems remotely monitored by an ARC. Currently, we can remotely manage the alarms, monitor our CCTV, door access systems etc. We have Galaxy Gold, the version is 5.8.? , I think.

I recently added a new Galaxy G2 panel (with serial interface), and have unfortunately learnt that Galaxy Gold can no longer be used to manage this panel

Can anyone suggest a low-cost way for us to monitor this panel? Is there a cheaper alternative to RSS? Alternatively, is the protocol information in the public domain? We have our own software guys so this could be an option. We only need fairly basic remote capabilitities, but we want to have something more than just a simple speech-dialer.

thanks in advance,

Ian

to be honest ARC digi monitoring is the way to go for signalling alarms, if you did and used sia3 for example you could then request logs from the arc and this would show, arm disarm times, user names, individual circuits that alarmed etc, everything that is logged basically.

I think you mean your wanting to use the alarm recieving software wich is different (but part of the rss suite)

rss only allows remote diagnostic and programming /logs etc not recieving alarms.

But in answer to your question

No Rss is the only way to go, there is an older version for the original G2 but wont work with the current ones. (ie v1.4+)

and you right you dont want a speech dialler (yuk)

Honeywell wont release the protocol for the alarm, I asked for the rs485 protocol so I could write some custom code. They reply they will only release it (under a nda, which is fair enough) only if it has a business benefit to *them*

So, they are not a manu suitable for smaller scale one off custom work really.

Thanks for the fast replies,

We currently have a custom system that reads the live RS232 log out of our existing panels in order to generate alerts externally via phone,sms and email etc.

Ideally I'd like a way to be able to remotely set and unset the G2. Is this possible?

Ian

not without the software

You can set up the bigger gals to output 232 text and write your app to intercept this, but the G2's wont

You could add a CQR GD06

this will allow you to text it to arm/disarm with the relevant passwords, just wire one of the outputs into a relay and program a zone as keyswitch.