RADIO ALARM MONITORING

bazbrady

Ok so i have asked a few companies about getting radio monitoring of a visonic powermaster 10 alarm for a friend as they have no landline and not getting one,so was thinking of using this along with a gsm dialler.one company has said" the visonic alarms have no external outputs to connect to the alarm and its contact id reporting does not transmit in the recognized format and is unable to send signals over the radio network"..now as far as im aware both powermaster 10 and 30 have one external output!!.not sure on the id reporting situation? .can anybody clarify if they have had visonic alarms monitored over the long range radio method?.also this company said they are the only ones monitoring with this service .i think maybe there is more not sure?

KoolKid

The Powermaster 10 has no outpus AFAIK.
For long range or mesh radio monitoring via central station you can send contact ID signals from the digi via an interface card.

altor

bazbrady wrote: »

Ok so i have asked a few companies about getting radio monitoring of a visonic powermaster 10 alarm for a friend as they have no landline and not getting one,so was thinking of using this along with a gsm dialler.one company has said" the visonic alarms have no external outputs to connect to the alarm and its contact id reporting does not transmit in the recognized format and is unable to send signals over the radio network"..now as far as im aware both powermaster 10 and 30 have one external output!!.not sure on the id reporting situation? .can anybody clarify if they have had visonic alarms monitored over the long range radio method?.also this company said they are the only ones monitoring with this service .i think maybe there is more not sure?

The complete uses a different format to contact a monitoring station as it does not display call monitoring. The system does send an abort signal instead.
Not sure if an output card can be added to the poermaster system.

KoolKid

altor wrote: »

The complete uses a different format to contact a monitoring station as it does not display call monitoring. The system does send an abort signal instead.
Not sure if an output card can be added to the poermaster system.

Output is built into the Powermaster 30. An output card can not be added to the Powermaster 10.
An interface card could be added to either for Mesh & Long Range Radio.

altor

Yes I know, 1 output.
Have you tested the interface card on the Visonic systems?

KoolKid

altor wrote: »

Yes I know, 1 output.
Have you tested the interface card on the Visonic systems?

Yes I have some installed with radios.

altor

KoolKid wrote: »

Yes I have some installed with radios.

Using contact id?

KoolKid

Yes. As far as I remember.

altor

Dont think that gives the abort signal to the monitoring station. fast format from what I can remember.

KoolKid

Not FF. Definitely is able to send zone that had activated.

altor

I have them set on fast format as it was the only one that would send the abort signal when I was setting them up. It needs the abort as it does not display call monitoring on the display of the control panel. It has nothing to do with the zones being sent.

KoolKid

If there is just the radio then that's an option. I would prefer the station getting SIA or contact Id.

altor

Me too as fast format is an older option.
The system needs to be able to send an abort if it does not display call monitoring.
Andy said to try the Fast Format and that is what worked.
The other formats did not send the abort.