RevolvingSteve Posted February 19, 2019 Share Posted February 19, 2019 Some free time again so back onto the Alarm. I seem to have everything working on the main panel now and have been setting the alarm for a week or so, no issue! Now I want to add the RIO expander to put the extra door contacts in. I have fitted it and wired the RIO back to the Lfex on the same terminals as the KeyPad, I have a flashing green light on the RIO now, but cannot see anything that it has recognised the RIO or any extra zones in the zones menu? Any ideas? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
al-yeti Posted February 19, 2019 Share Posted February 19, 2019 List zones showing in menu When you added the Rio did you address it enter engineer mode then exit , I assume adding a Rio hasn't changed on the flex then when exiting it says new mod added Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GalaxyGuy Posted February 19, 2019 Share Posted February 19, 2019 Which firmware version flex? I seem to remember some issues trying to mix fx20 with portal and RIO. Never had the problem on fx50 or fx100. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RevolvingSteve Posted February 20, 2019 Author Share Posted February 20, 2019 Would that be 3.5? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RevolvingSteve Posted February 20, 2019 Author Share Posted February 20, 2019 12 hours ago, al-yeti said: List zones showing in menu When you added the Rio did you address it enter engineer mode then exit , I assume adding a Rio hasn't changed on the flex then when exiting it says new mod added Yep, I didn't the enter/exit Eng mode, didn't show anything new (was 12, now 12.. I think from memory) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
al-yeti Posted February 20, 2019 Share Posted February 20, 2019 Did you address correctly Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RevolvingSteve Posted February 24, 2019 Author Share Posted February 24, 2019 On 20/02/2019 at 13:08, al-yeti said: Did you address correctly I have the addresses set as follows: KeyProx 1 : 0 KeyProx 2 : 1 RF Module : 5 (no idea why I set it to 5?) RIO Unit : 3 As always, thanks for the time and help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nova-Security Posted February 24, 2019 Share Posted February 24, 2019 Not sure on the flex but 12 zones on the panel ? add an RF module doesn't that take 8 up making 20 and your panel is a flex 20 Quote www.nova-security.co.uk www.nsiapproved.co.uk No PMs please unless i know you or you are using this board with your proper name. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RevolvingSteve Posted February 24, 2019 Author Share Posted February 24, 2019 1 minute ago, Nova-Security said: Not sure on the flex but 12 zones on the panel ? add an RF module doesn't that take 8 up making 20 and your panel is a flex 20 I thought the RF Zones were not included in the '20'? But I'm not 100% Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nova-Security Posted February 24, 2019 Share Posted February 24, 2019 so what are you RF zones numbers 1021 to 1028 ? Quote www.nova-security.co.uk www.nsiapproved.co.uk No PMs please unless i know you or you are using this board with your proper name. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
al-yeti Posted February 24, 2019 Share Posted February 24, 2019 1 hour ago, Nova-Security said: Not sure on the flex but 12 zones on the panel ? add an RF module doesn't that take 8 up making 20 and your panel is a flex 20 I thought you could do RF on all the zones like the g2 , your thinking dimension? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RevolvingSteve Posted February 24, 2019 Author Share Posted February 24, 2019 (edited) 1 hour ago, Nova-Security said: so what are you RF zones numbers 1021 to 1028 ? I can see these zones in the display zones menu (Menu 21): 1001 > 1004 1011 > 1018 1021 > 1028 I know 1001 through 1018 are the Main board, can't see if the 1021> Zones are the RF or the RIO, I expected the address of the RIO & RF to dictate the zones like this: RF Module (Address 5) : 105x RIO Unit (Address 3) : 103x But its more likely I have misunderstood the manual. Edited February 24, 2019 by RevolvingSteve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RevolvingSteve Posted February 24, 2019 Author Share Posted February 24, 2019 OK, so further info: If I use menu 52.1 (Program Zones > Zones) I see: 1001 > 1004 1011 > 1018 1021 > 1028 If I go into 52.2 (Program Zones > RF Zones) I see: 1021 > 1028 Not sure if there is a better menu to view this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nova-Security Posted February 25, 2019 Share Posted February 25, 2019 11 hours ago, al-yeti said: I thought you could do RF on all the zones like the g2 , your thinking dimension? Only installed one flex, use G3 all the time Quote www.nova-security.co.uk www.nsiapproved.co.uk No PMs please unless i know you or you are using this board with your proper name. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GalaxyGuy Posted February 25, 2019 Share Posted February 25, 2019 The RF portal can have up to three virtual Rio addresses. They are not the same as the physical bus address of the portal. The virtual Rio addresses are in menu 56.60.1 The last time I looked at this, the Flex would not allow the portal to coexist with the Rio on an fx20 in the way that was allowed on the older g2-20 panels. The panel responded differently depending on which module was added first (Rio or portal). IfI get a minute, I will test that this is still the case at the latest Flex version 3.50. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
al-yeti Posted February 25, 2019 Share Posted February 25, 2019 1 hour ago, GalaxyGuy said: The last time I looked at this, the Flex would not allow the portal to coexist with the Rio on an fx20 in the way that was allowed on the older g2-20 panels. The panel responded differently depending on which module was added first (Rio or portal). Wonder why they called it flex , not very flexible then Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RevolvingSteve Posted February 25, 2019 Author Share Posted February 25, 2019 5 hours ago, GalaxyGuy said: The RF portal can have up to three virtual Rio addresses. They are not the same as the physical bus address of the portal. The virtual Rio addresses are in menu 56.60.1 The last time I looked at this, the Flex would not allow the portal to coexist with the Rio on an fx20 in the way that was allowed on the older g2-20 panels. The panel responded differently depending on which module was added first (Rio or portal). IfI get a minute, I will test that this is still the case at the latest Flex version 3.50. No surprise I have managed to end up with the complicated version LOL OK, very grateful if you do get time. I don't actually need the RF portal yet (although I will) so is there a way to remove the RF Portal to allow the RIO to be picked up whilst sorting out if there is a solution? 3 hours ago, al-yeti said: Wonder why they called it flex , not very flexible then Agreed! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GalaxyGuy Posted February 25, 2019 Share Posted February 25, 2019 Just remove the portal and scan devices in menu 72 - * to delete. Then scan again to find the RIO. I think the intent is to stop zone expansion beyond the 20 zone limit of the panel, but you should be able to expand to 20 zones max and have any of the 20 hardwired or wireless. It seems that this may not be an option with the FX20 and you can only have 12 hardwired and a possible 20 wireless. If you upgrade to an FX50 or FX100, you can have a number of RIO's fitted. As I said, I thought that this was a bug in the early Flex and I never went back to see if it was fixed in the newer models, as I only use the FX100+ now anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RevolvingSteve Posted February 26, 2019 Author Share Posted February 26, 2019 8 hours ago, GalaxyGuy said: Just remove the portal and scan devices in menu 72 - * to delete. Then scan again to find the RIO. Is then, 72, then *? doesn't seem to do anything. 8 hours ago, GalaxyGuy said: I think the intent is to stop zone expansion beyond the 20 zone limit of the panel, but you should be able to expand to 20 zones max and have any of the 20 hardwired or wireless. It seems that this may not be an option with the FX20 and you can only have 12 hardwired and a possible 20 wireless. If you upgrade to an FX50 or FX100, you can have a number of RIO's fitted. Does the FX50 fit in the same housing? 8 hours ago, GalaxyGuy said: As I said, I thought that this was a bug in the early Flex and I never went back to see if it was fixed in the newer models, as I only use the FX100+ now anyway. Is it just the zone qty that's different between the models? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GalaxyGuy Posted February 26, 2019 Share Posted February 26, 2019 59 minutes ago, RevolvingSteve said: Is then, 72, then *? doesn't seem to do anything. The process is: Start the Auto-learn mode in menu 72. Remove the device from the data bus (for example disconnect the module). Exit from the Auto-learn mode and confirm the address of the device removed (using *). Enter Auto-learn mode once more. 59 minutes ago, RevolvingSteve said: Does the FX50 fit in the same housing? Is it just the zone qty that's different between the models? Yes, the boards across the range are the same form. Only different between the metal case and plastic case boards. The Flex+ supports grade 3. The 50 and 100 series panels support more users, zones, outputs, bigger event and access logs, schedules, keypads and links. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nova-Security Posted February 26, 2019 Share Posted February 26, 2019 4 hours ago, GalaxyGuy said: The Flex+ supports grade 3. Oh dear, sounds like a dimension replacement. Quote www.nova-security.co.uk www.nsiapproved.co.uk No PMs please unless i know you or you are using this board with your proper name. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GalaxyGuy Posted February 27, 2019 Share Posted February 27, 2019 Okay, checked this out on the Flex with a RIO. So what you need to do is configure the virtual RIO in the RF portal so that it doesn't take any addresses up. Ie. No virtual RIO enabled. Then you can configure any of the 20 hardwired zones as either wireless or hardwired. The easiest way to do this is to: 1. Enter engineering mode and remove both portal and rio from the system. 2. Exit engineering mode and remove the devices from the config when prompted. 3. Set the RIO address to 2 and add back to the bus. 4. Enter eng mode and menu 72 to detect the device. 5. Add the portal and then menu 72 to detect it. Now the portal should show on its bus, but with no virtual RIO's addressed (menu 51.60.1 shows the virtual RIO - note my typo earlier when I said it was 56). If you want to do this without removing devices, you need to use 51.60.1 to diable the virtual rio, then the hard wired RIO can be enumerated onto the bus. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
al-yeti Posted February 28, 2019 Share Posted February 28, 2019 34 minutes ago, GalaxyGuy said: Okay, checked this out on the Flex with a RIO. So what you need to do is configure the virtual RIO in the RF portal so that it doesn't take any addresses up. Ie. No virtual RIO enabled. Then you can configure any of the 20 hardwired zones as either wireless or hardwired. The easiest way to do this is to: 1. Enter engineering mode and remove both portal and rio from the system. 2. Exit engineering mode and remove the devices from the config when prompted. 3. Set the RIO address to 2 and add back to the bus. 4. Enter eng mode and menu 72 to detect the device. 5. Add the portal and then menu 72 to detect it. Now the portal should show on its bus, but with no virtual RIO's addressed (menu 51.60.1 shows the virtual RIO - note my typo earlier when I said it was 56). If you want to do this without removing devices, you need to use 51.60.1 to diable the virtual rio, then the hard wired RIO can be enumerated onto the bus. As simple as that ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Pilotech Posted August 1, 2019 Share Posted August 1, 2019 On 27/02/2019 at 23:45, GalaxyGuy said: Okay, checked this out on the Flex with a RIO. So what you need to do is configure the virtual RIO in the RF portal so that it doesn't take any addresses up. Ie. No virtual RIO enabled. Then you can configure any of the 20 hardwired zones as either wireless or hardwired. The easiest way to do this is to: 1. Enter engineering mode and remove both portal and rio from the system. 2. Exit engineering mode and remove the devices from the config when prompted. 3. Set the RIO address to 2 and add back to the bus. 4. Enter eng mode and menu 72 to detect the device. 5. Add the portal and then menu 72 to detect it. Now the portal should show on its bus, but with no virtual RIO's addressed (menu 51.60.1 shows the virtual RIO - note my typo earlier when I said it was 56). If you want to do this without removing devices, you need to use 51.60.1 to diable the virtual rio, then the hard wired RIO can be enumerated onto the bus. I had exactly the same issue. Thank you so much for sharing. Now I just need to work out how to use the Ethernet module to connect to the app... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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