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Hi, My first time at trying to render. I am building an outdoor kitchen. Contractor built the rear and side walls in block and rendered in sand and cement. I am building front walls in block that will have doors in them to create cupboards either side of the bbq. Plan is to render in same...

What I thought would be a simple search for an external keypad turns up that they don't seem to exist for alarm panels So I'm looking for some advice. I have a side gate with an electronic lock controlled by my texecom elite which is connected to the Panel output that I control by the phone...

Hi, I have just upgraded my Elite 24 metal to v4 and installed the Smartcom and got the mobile app all running. However my home automation system that used to connect via the ComIP cannot connect via the SmartCom IP address and port. I am guessing that it doesnt allow other connections. I had...

Hi I got 2 new micro contacts recently. One learnt with no problems at all. Learn Ricochet mode on keypad, held button on contact, flashed purple, then green. All good. The system refuses to recognise the other one though. I do the same steps, the contact flashes purple then solid green...

Hi, I have now got my panel upgraded to 3.02 and was checking through the rest of the setup, and realised that the panel info on the ios app is showing between 650 and 850mamps and flashing yellow. Downloading the ENCalculator it does appear that I am at the limit of the power on the panel...

Hi, I see on Texecom's website they have some new products. although still no release date for Connect! Has anyone used the carbon monoxide sensor or the new mini wireless one? I have been looking for a zwave CO sensor for a while, but having it on the more reliable alarm would be better, and...

Hi, I am fitting an electric gate lock to a wooden side gate that I will power the release from a Texecom output and as I am running a cable from alarm to the gate, I am going to also add an external door contact, probably using the same cable. When installing my external PIR I could drill...

Hi, Pretty much as the title says. I have an Elite 24 which I think only has the digicom outputs (although would consider upgrading to the 48 if needed) and I would like to use the outputs to trigger an electric gate lock to open, most frequently by the Texecom iOS app so I can allow people...

Hi, I have fitted a number of zwave light relays to various circuits in my house, as below. http://www.vesternet.com/resources/application-notes/apnt-52 The wiring has been tight adding these into the back boxes, despite having told my electrician when it was rewired 12 months ago that I...

Our builder has just finished a refurbishment project and in one of the rooms an old door way in a brick wall was filled in with stud work, insulated and plasterboarded. The whole wall was then skimmed and painted. We now have a darker stripe in the paint where the join is. The decorator has...

I am having some issues with my part sets on my texecom elite. I have 2 Areas, A is the house and B is an external sensor on the driveway. Both RKPs and all users are set to both Areas. Evening Arm should just do the external door sensors in A and the PIR in B so on Evening Arm I omit all...

Hi, Is there a way to turn down the brightness on one of these keypads? We have one in our bedroom for setting, panic, seeing reason for night time alerts etc but its very bright. I have found some references to an elite RKP on how to do it, but doesnt seem to work. Also I have played with...

As part of a major refurbishment we had the whole house rewired for electrics and cat6/coax in every room. It was based on architects plans 4xcat6 in each room all wired back to utility room as central hub. I got a patch panel for all this to go into the expectation that wiring cables would...

Hi We just had new carpets laid and I had a cat 6 patch cable run under it to the desk which I have fitted sockets to myself. I am now told we need a wired phone on the desk too. Short of pulling the carpet up again can I run telephone down any of the spare cores? The wall plate that the cat6...

I am considering getting a z wave how automation hub to do lights, house wide sound and heating for starters and looking at how I could use it with my texecom panel. One option is to use the Fibaro universal sensors in the PIRs, either inside them if room or in the cable junction box most of...

Happy to see texecom have updated their apps yesterday to a much better design and now have push notifications. And seem to have included the log in the keypad app rather than the engineer app. Also much great to be able to use the finger print to log in,making it quick more secure than the...

Hi, I am hoping someone can offer assume pointers that can hero me get my comip working. When I was testing the alarm before install I got it connected to wintex with a fixed ip address. I have now installed it and changed router. On the router I have set the comp to have a fixed ip...

Another texecom question. Whilst I have building work going on at my house I want to use the control timers to turn on the alarm at evening and off in morning so I don't need to rely on the builders to set it or struggle turning it off. However whilst I can set days and times I can't get it to...

Hi. My electrician helpfully decided to run cat5 cable to all sensor points when I asked him to wire the house for an alarm during first fix and I only realised once it was plastered. I have just about managed to wire on the keypads and PIRs but the panel is impossible as the cores keep snapping...

Hi I am just starting the actual install of my premier elite 24 after having spent a few weeks on here and wiring up keypads and PIRs on the kitchen table. The panel is going into a cupboard in the utility room and I am struggling with placement and cable runs. All the wiring for sensors was...