Ademco / Honeywell Systems

The AlarmDecoder was designed to work with any alarm from the Ademco/Honeywell Vista series from the 90's right up to the latest 2013 Honeywell Vista 21IP and more recently DSC Power series alarms. This document will help identify if a given panel is compatible with the AlarmDecoder. Many of these alarm panels were sold under different names branded by the alarm monitoring company for example Safewatch Pro 3000/3000CN which is actually a Vista 20P.

• Note: The Ademco LYNX Systems are NOT compatible as they do not support the 4 wire expansion bus the AlarmDecoder connects to.

If after reading this you still are not sure if your panel is supported and are interested in the AlarmDecoder then send us an email with a picture of your alarm panel filling the full frame of your camera and we will check it out. (Please provide a general statement of release for the photo as we may use them on the website to help others.)

Keypads

The AlarmDecoder is compatible with any alarm that is also compatible with one of these Ademco/Honeywell keypads.

5839	6127 & 6129	6138	>6139
6148	6150	6150RF	6160CR
6160	6160V	6164	6270
6271V	6128	6128RF	LYNX Touch(L5100)

Panels

This is a partial list. Many supported panels were sold under different names and model numbers so here are some tips for seeing if your panel will be compatible.

• Look for a large wiring sticker inside the panel enclosure that shows the word(s): Vista, Ademco, Honeywell, etc.
• Look on the panel for words like SAVS and a series of letters and numbers like SAVS20P5 or SAVS10SECE. The model number is embedded inside this string of characters as demonstrated here.

Vista 10SE/VIA-30PSE	Vista 10P Plus Series	Vista 15	Vista 15P Plus Series
Vista 20P	Vista 20PUL	Vista 20SE	Vista 21iP
Vista 30SE	Vista 40	Vista 50P	Vista 50PUL
Vista 128BP	Vista 128B Series	Vista-128BPT/Vista Turbo Series	Vista 128FBP
Vista 250BP	Vista 250BPT/Vista Turbo Series	Vista 250FBP
First Alert FA-168C & Others	Safewatch 3000	†Honeywell Lynx 3000 Plus

† The "Honeywell Lynx 3000 Plus" panel is supported but requires additional work to connect. No other Lynx panels work with AlarmDecoder at this time.

DSC Systems

We now support the DSC Power series alarm panels. This requires beta firmware 2.2a.8 or later. This is still in beta and new features are being added every month.

Panels

DSC Power 432/ PC-580	PC1404	DSC Power 632 / PC-1555	DSC PowerSeries Control Panel PC1616
DSC PowerSeries Control Panel PC1832	DSC PowerSeries Control Panel PC1864	DSC Power 832 / PC-5010	DSC Power 864 / PC-5020
PC5100	PC5108	PC5200	PC5204
PC5208	PC5320	PC5400	PC5950