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I'm reasonably competent with all things electrical / electronic and recently moved in to a new house. I was initially planning to go for a full wired system as the house supposedly had a "first fix for Alarm", long story short the first fix was rubbish and had no where near enough cables for the kind of security I was looking for. So I decided to go with a Texecom Premier Elite 64W with a rough mix of 50/50 wired and wireless sensors, I also got the SmartComm as I wanted the ability to talk to it remotely with my phone etc.
The parts I bought were:
1 x Premier Elite 64W
1 x SmartComm
1 x Wired Prox LCD Keypad
3 x Wired Magnetic Door Contacts (to which I added the EOL resistors)
3 x Wired PIRs
1 x Wireless Prox LCD Keypad
1 x Wireless Magnetic Door Contact
3 x Wireless PIR's
1 x Odyssey 3 External Wired Sounder
The 64W has 4 onboard wired zones and the wired keypad also has 2 zones, my plan being to use those 6 zones for the 6 wired sensors and have everything else wireless. The install went really well (with just the 2 sensors to the keypad left to wire in) , everything in in DEOL I powered up the panel and when through the language setup, date / time, confirm devices etc with the wired panel, I got it to learn all the wireless sensors powering them on one by one, I've even managed to get the SmartComm connected and working through my phone.
Here come the 3 issues:
1. It's lucky I bought the wired keypad as I cannot for the life of me figure out how to connect the wireless keypad, the wired one is set to Keypad 1, and I set the DIP switches in the wireless one to be Keypad 2 (0100). How ever the wireless keypad simply displays "No Ricochet Network Found" when I press the tick to activate it. How do you correctly configure the wireless keypad on to the system? Will I need to re connect the installation jumper or can I add it from the engineer menu?
2. Cannot get WinTex to connect at all using the SmartComm, I've never used this software before but on first look its absolutely awful! I'm going to try with a direct serial connection to the panel as soon as I get 5 minutes.
3. Additional zones from the wired keypad, will there be zones 5 and 6? I think the Wireless sensors were zones 9 to 12, who knows what zone 8 is (unless its the stupid wireless keypad I cannot get to connect).
Any help with the above issues or pointers would be very much appreciated, hopefully I've given a reasonable explanation but any questions please ask!
Kind Regards
Plasma
The parts I bought were:
1 x Premier Elite 64W
1 x SmartComm
1 x Wired Prox LCD Keypad
3 x Wired Magnetic Door Contacts (to which I added the EOL resistors)
3 x Wired PIRs
1 x Wireless Prox LCD Keypad
1 x Wireless Magnetic Door Contact
3 x Wireless PIR's
1 x Odyssey 3 External Wired Sounder
The 64W has 4 onboard wired zones and the wired keypad also has 2 zones, my plan being to use those 6 zones for the 6 wired sensors and have everything else wireless. The install went really well (with just the 2 sensors to the keypad left to wire in) , everything in in DEOL I powered up the panel and when through the language setup, date / time, confirm devices etc with the wired panel, I got it to learn all the wireless sensors powering them on one by one, I've even managed to get the SmartComm connected and working through my phone.
Here come the 3 issues:
1. It's lucky I bought the wired keypad as I cannot for the life of me figure out how to connect the wireless keypad, the wired one is set to Keypad 1, and I set the DIP switches in the wireless one to be Keypad 2 (0100). How ever the wireless keypad simply displays "No Ricochet Network Found" when I press the tick to activate it. How do you correctly configure the wireless keypad on to the system? Will I need to re connect the installation jumper or can I add it from the engineer menu?
2. Cannot get WinTex to connect at all using the SmartComm, I've never used this software before but on first look its absolutely awful! I'm going to try with a direct serial connection to the panel as soon as I get 5 minutes.
3. Additional zones from the wired keypad, will there be zones 5 and 6? I think the Wireless sensors were zones 9 to 12, who knows what zone 8 is (unless its the stupid wireless keypad I cannot get to connect).
Any help with the above issues or pointers would be very much appreciated, hopefully I've given a reasonable explanation but any questions please ask!
Kind Regards
Plasma
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