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Yes (for the external connections) and it was wired correctly, but still not working. Would have been nice to spend the time to work out why, but just happy to have it replaced and working again!

Quick update - I replaced the capacitor, but this did not fix it. In the end, I replaced the whole thing like for like (this makes it a very easy drop in replacement without disturbing the pipework) and it's all working again.

Almost unrelated to your question, but it's worth checking which EV (or EVs) you plan to use with your new charger as relatively few actually support 22kW charging these days. By no means all of them support it and a surprising number are limited to 7kW single phase or 11kW single phase. Over...

Yes, absolutely no resistance at all

Hi all, Wet day, so time to sort that bathroom extractor fan that hasn't been working for...errr, 5 years! It's a Vortice Lineo 100T V0, 4" timer model. Electrically, everything looks ok (and certainly hasn't changed since it was installed originally around 15 years ago) but when switched on...

More info here: https://github.com/dchesterton/texecom2mqtt-hassio ...and a long discussion thread here: https://community.home-assistant.io/t/texecom2mqtt-texecom-alarm-panel-and-mqtt-integration-with-ha-support/ Pretty quick and easy to set up and is mostly stable (although there is a...

Hi both, sorry for not replying - I missed the notifications. It looked to clear itself up later that day so I'm not 100% sure if this was a problem of my parents' making (likely!) or some other issue going on. Either way, it's been working ok since then...well, until today when it all fell...

FYI, Texecom are having a bad day today, so if your connected panel is throwing errors, or the app isn't working, this is probably why: https://texecom.trust.pagerduty.com/

My (as a similar competent amateur) recommendation from limited experience would be Texecom Premier Elite appropriately spec'ed for your needs. Easy enough to install and the programming, while a little fiddly, isn't so hard once you get your head around it (and is much easier with their Wintex...

Just enquiring in case anyone else saw anything - my parents reported getting no app notifications for an alarm activation overnight, nor were they getting other notifications. They set the alarm off again this morning and again did not receive notifications, but they've just tried again and it...

Thanks guys. Sounds like 5 years on a decent battery is comfortable so I shall do what almost every single homeowner in the country does - I shall continue to neglect the problem ;-)

Just coming around to the third anniversary of installing the Texecom alarm and am pondering battery replacement. The old Honeywell system was pretty dumb when it came to batteries, but I see that the Texecom should perform regular backup battery checks to ensure they're not dead. What is...

My panel is "Elite 48 V5.04.01 LS1", SmartCom is v3.03.00. I've previously updated using Texecom Cloud, but I'm not desperate to do so now as it might break more than it fixes (thinking specifically Home Assistant integration via ComIP!) Is that permanently turned off - i.e. cannot re-enable...

Well, I spent a pile of time diagnosing this to try to work out what was causing this and, in the end, I just rebooted the SmartCom (i.e. panel open, disconnect the two com ports and reconnect them again). This has cleared the fault. I guess that the version I'm running (v3.03.00) has a few...

Looks like it might be a known issue when you get an internet glitch, the smartcom latches into fault: https://texecom.websitetoolbox.com/post/ats-path-fault-9661313 They said a new firmware would come to fix it, but there was no follow-up so it's hard to know which version was affected, but I...