Revision as of 13:02, 12 December 2013

Ademco/Honeywell Systems

Except for older SE systems all devices on the alarm bus for this type of alarm need a unique address. No two devices connected to the panel can share the same address. In order for the AlarmDecoder to work properly the alarm panel needs to be programmed to assign an unused address for the AlarmDecoder. By default the AlarmDecoder comes programmed at address 18

The programming manuals for most of these types of panels are very simple to read. It will cover all programming fields as well as more advanced menu fields. Many of the programming manuals can be found here http://www.aesecurity.com/manuals.html

If you do not know your installer code or you have a monitoring company you can request your alarm monitoring company to add an additional keypad to your system and to have them tell you the keypad address they used.

You can also get into programming mode in most cases by powering the panel up into programming mode as described here

Once in programming mode you can activate an unused keypad address

For most panels this is done via programming fields 190-196 but can vary for each model of alarm panel so see your programming manual "KEYPAD OPTIONS" for more specific setup.

If you have a Vista 15P or 20P and no keypad assigned to address 18 then the following programming command will show if the keypad at address 18 is already used.

*191

To review a programming field on this model of panel you would use # before the field to return the fields values. The use of * before the field is for changing the field value.

This keypad sequence will return the two programming values for field 191 or the keypad address 18 settings

#191