Having looked at various forums I figured to post here as there seems to be a lot of worthwhile experience without some of the attitude I have seen on some of the 'professional forums'.
So greetings everyone - first post.
I bought a new Galaxy Dimension G520 off ebay. Although I don't work in the alarm industry I have some experience of these units while working for a previous employer when I wrote a Crestron module to control these.
I have a pretty good understanding of the SIA protocol as a result, hence the reason for going with a Galaxy.
I have set the unit up on my workbench for the time being and I'm using a double light switch to simulate the door contacts.
These are currently wired to zones 1 & 2 which I have configured as FINAL.
The contacts are wired double balanced with 1K across the switch contacts and 1K EOL, no tampers and no Anti-mask.
Zone states are indicated correctly in Menu 21=DISPLAY ZONES as open or closed depending on the light switches.
All other zones are 'SPARE'
Unit is fitted with:
1 x CP038-01 Keyprox (currently)
1 x E080-04 Ethernet
1 x AG8 External siren
Currently 1 X 7Ah battery but plan on adding second at a later stage.
I also have a P026 RIO expander which will be fitted in some outbuildings once I have set up the main house & installed the alarm.
No plans at this stage to link the system to a monitoring service by may do at a later stage.
So I have a few questions for you guys if you could help me out with a few teething problems:
1.
I currently have two zones setup as FINAL. I can set the alarm using a PIN on the keyprox, fob, Crestron and Gx RemoteControl App and all works as expected.
Un-setting however is proving to be a bit troublesome. I can unset using the fob, Crestron and the Gx RemoteControl app but not the Keyprox keypad.
When I attempt to type in a PIN on the keyprox it does nothing - won't take input.
The alarm will trip and then I can then enter a PIN successfully. It's like the keypad is locked out when the final zone is entered.
Q: What have I missed here?
2.
Although new, the unit thinks it's an ADT system. This was reflected by the fact that when powered up and the card removed from the battery for the first time it only gave me some ADT options. (Can't remember what they were offhand but I had no choice but to use them)
No big deal and I can live with that as I assume that is built into the ADT Galaxy firmware.
Q: What I'd like to know is does the system dial out to ADT? I can't see anything in the engineer mode that lists any phone numbers.
Q: If it does where do I disable this function?
3.
When a fault is detected I get a message on the Keyprox stating to ring the Alarm Co. and quote code XXXXX.
Q: Any way to disable those messages?
Q: Also is there a list of what those codes are? (I assume they are specific to ADT panels)
4.
As stated previously I am using the Gx RemoteControl App.
I have set this up as follows:
Menu: 56=COMMUNICATIONS>04=ETHERNET>03=REMOTE ACCESS>01=ACCESS PERIOD>4=ANY TIME
This worked for a bit then stopped. I think there is a built-in 40 minute time-out.
However just tried it again and now I get a connection time-out on the app despite going back into Engineer and setting it again.
Ethernet card is connected and online and I can ping it too.
Q: What settings do I need to make the app persistent?
5.
I'd like to add a second battery and have read that for Grade 3 you can't wire them in parallel.
Q: Is it worth my while fitting the second battery at all, along with an A079 a Dual Battery Monitor?
6.
Q: For magnetic window contacts - am I best leaving these zones as TAMPER?
7.
One final question - in the AG8 install manual it states that TR- (neg tamper return) is wired to connector T on the Galaxy PCB.
Q: Where is connector T? I can't see it anywhere.
Apologies for the rather long post.
Thanks in advance
-slip
So greetings everyone - first post.
I bought a new Galaxy Dimension G520 off ebay. Although I don't work in the alarm industry I have some experience of these units while working for a previous employer when I wrote a Crestron module to control these.
I have a pretty good understanding of the SIA protocol as a result, hence the reason for going with a Galaxy.
I have set the unit up on my workbench for the time being and I'm using a double light switch to simulate the door contacts.
These are currently wired to zones 1 & 2 which I have configured as FINAL.
The contacts are wired double balanced with 1K across the switch contacts and 1K EOL, no tampers and no Anti-mask.
Zone states are indicated correctly in Menu 21=DISPLAY ZONES as open or closed depending on the light switches.
All other zones are 'SPARE'
Unit is fitted with:
1 x CP038-01 Keyprox (currently)
1 x E080-04 Ethernet
1 x AG8 External siren
Currently 1 X 7Ah battery but plan on adding second at a later stage.
I also have a P026 RIO expander which will be fitted in some outbuildings once I have set up the main house & installed the alarm.
No plans at this stage to link the system to a monitoring service by may do at a later stage.
So I have a few questions for you guys if you could help me out with a few teething problems:
1.
I currently have two zones setup as FINAL. I can set the alarm using a PIN on the keyprox, fob, Crestron and Gx RemoteControl App and all works as expected.
Un-setting however is proving to be a bit troublesome. I can unset using the fob, Crestron and the Gx RemoteControl app but not the Keyprox keypad.
When I attempt to type in a PIN on the keyprox it does nothing - won't take input.
The alarm will trip and then I can then enter a PIN successfully. It's like the keypad is locked out when the final zone is entered.
Q: What have I missed here?
2.
Although new, the unit thinks it's an ADT system. This was reflected by the fact that when powered up and the card removed from the battery for the first time it only gave me some ADT options. (Can't remember what they were offhand but I had no choice but to use them)
No big deal and I can live with that as I assume that is built into the ADT Galaxy firmware.
Q: What I'd like to know is does the system dial out to ADT? I can't see anything in the engineer mode that lists any phone numbers.
Q: If it does where do I disable this function?
3.
When a fault is detected I get a message on the Keyprox stating to ring the Alarm Co. and quote code XXXXX.
Q: Any way to disable those messages?
Q: Also is there a list of what those codes are? (I assume they are specific to ADT panels)
4.
As stated previously I am using the Gx RemoteControl App.
I have set this up as follows:
Menu: 56=COMMUNICATIONS>04=ETHERNET>03=REMOTE ACCESS>01=ACCESS PERIOD>4=ANY TIME
This worked for a bit then stopped. I think there is a built-in 40 minute time-out.
However just tried it again and now I get a connection time-out on the app despite going back into Engineer and setting it again.
Ethernet card is connected and online and I can ping it too.
Q: What settings do I need to make the app persistent?
5.
I'd like to add a second battery and have read that for Grade 3 you can't wire them in parallel.
Q: Is it worth my while fitting the second battery at all, along with an A079 a Dual Battery Monitor?
6.
Q: For magnetic window contacts - am I best leaving these zones as TAMPER?
7.
One final question - in the AG8 install manual it states that TR- (neg tamper return) is wired to connector T on the Galaxy PCB.
Q: Where is connector T? I can't see it anywhere.
Apologies for the rather long post.
Thanks in advance
-slip
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