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  • 31-12-2019 2:24pm
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    Technique
    Registered Users Posts: 1,362 ✭✭✭


    I'm getting a GSM opener for my electric gates and I need to get a SIM card for it. Is there any phone operator best for this? I want to get one with €10 credit that won't expire. My location has good coverage for all the networks.


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    #2
    tech
    Registered Users Posts: 2,799 ✭✭✭tech


    HI ya,

    have this for the GSM intercom for my gates / intercom

    I use Vodafone €5 every 180 days, I top up using website and pop a reminderin in phone for 179 days!

    will you be using an Intercom ? or it is just a GSM gate opener?


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    Technique
    Registered Users Posts: 1,362 ✭✭✭Technique


    tech wrote: »
    HI ya,

    have this for the GSM intercom for my gates / intercom

    I use Vodafone €5 every 180 days, I top up using website and pop a reminderin in phone for 179 days!

    will you be using an Intercom ? or it is just a GSM gate opener?

    Thanks, I'll give Vodafone a go, €10 per year is hard to beat.

    No intercom, just gate opener using this:

    https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.co.uk%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F163491873228

    What are the options for intercom using GSM? I ruled it out based on the cost of running cables from the gate to the house.


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    tech
    Registered Users Posts: 2,799 ✭✭✭tech


    Epic!!

    I got the RU 5035 and have it rigged up to garage door!! looks like a treat, what type of gates / motors have you.

    do you have PhotoCells inside you gates?


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    Technique
    Registered Users Posts: 1,362 ✭✭✭Technique


    I've got the faac 770n, operated with the remote controls and a keypad on the gate post. I'm hoping that in the absence of an intercom in the house the GSM opener will be useful.


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    tech
    Registered Users Posts: 2,799 ✭✭✭tech


    handy to let the oil lorry in, and also deliveries and so on!!!
    THE GSM intercom is also excellent, dials landline 1st, then mobile 1, then mobile2, mobile 3 if they arent answered.

    they are a mighty job. I have the AES


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    Technique
    Registered Users Posts: 1,362 ✭✭✭Technique


    Sounds good, have you a link for that?


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    tech
    Registered Users Posts: 2,799 ✭✭✭tech


    https://www.autogatesystems.ie/gsm-intercom-3e-ab.html


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    stickman1019
    Registered Users Posts: 165 ✭✭stickman1019


    Hi guys do you have a link for the Vodafone $10 per month


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    tech
    Registered Users Posts: 2,799 ✭✭✭tech


    get a ready to go sim,
    and when you setup your web login for sim / number you can top up by 5e and do so every 180 days!


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    kub
    Registered Users Posts: 6,528 ✭✭✭kub


    Technique wrote: »
    I've got the faac 770n, operated with the remote controls and a keypad on the gate post. I'm hoping that in the absence of an intercom in the house the GSM opener will be useful.

    Just a word of caution.

    You would need to have a myriad of safety devices on your gate if you are operating them remotely.
    That is as per the Health and Safety Authority's publication on Automatic gates which was issued around 2 years ago

    If anything happens to anyone due to your gates, then you are culpable if you have not gotten the gates audited by a professional.


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    tech
    Registered Users Posts: 2,799 ✭✭✭tech


    did you get sorted out. ??

    did you manage to restrct the dial in access to certain mobile numbers?


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    Brego888
    Registered Users Posts: 1,314 ✭✭✭Brego888


    Can't find any reference to the Vodafone sim online that only needs topping up every 6 months.
    Anyone have a link or an alternative?


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    Stinky45
    Registered Users Posts: 80 ✭✭Stinky45


    Brego888 wrote: »
    Can't find any reference to the Vodafone sim online that only needs topping up every 6 months.
    Anyone have a link or an alternative?

    You only find out about the 6 months when your GSM unit in the alarm shows up as faulty and then Vodafone inform you you did not Top Up in 6 months and your SIM needs replacing. (My Experience)

    All you need to do is get a 'Ready to Go Sim' put €5 credit in it and set yourself a reminder calendar or phone every 25 weeks or as someone already suggested 179 days to ADD a further €5 credit to the SIM....that's a bit too close for me...LOL

    You will not use the €5 unless you have a whole heap of alarms going off....currently I must have built up €45 credit left on the SIM which I'll never use, so I write it off as €5 every 6 months is fine by me.


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    Brego888
    Registered Users Posts: 1,314 ✭✭✭Brego888


    Appreciate the reply, good to know how it works.
    I just don't see any reference to pay as you go sims on the Vodafone website. It just redirects to monthly sim plans at €20 a month.
    Might just head into a store.


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    tech
    Registered Users Posts: 2,799 ✭✭✭tech


    yes 5e every 180 days , so €10 a year for the GSM intercom to operate.

    Im happy with that!
    reminder in phone to keep all in order!


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    Stinky45
    Registered Users Posts: 80 ✭✭Stinky45


    Brego888 wrote: »
    Appreciate the reply, good to know how it works.
    I just don't see any reference to pay as you go sims on the Vodafone website. It just redirects to monthly sim plans at €20 a month.
    Might just head into a store.

    I went to a Vodafone just last week a daughter gave me a modern phone so I needed a new SIM...I use the phone little so I'm Ready to Go....just watch out that the SIM you get is the correct size for the GSM unit in the HKC Panel...from memory I think its a large sized SIM compared to the small one I had put in the phone. I think maybe they're all large and you press out the size SIM you need....just something to watch out for.


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    Aminky
    Registered Users Posts: 2 ✭Aminky


    Sim ran out of credit so stoped working. I Got a new Vodafone sim. Turned off the voicemail by inputting a code into my phone with the sim in. I can't get the sim to work in the gate.....what am I doing wrong? Clicker and code work fine to open the gate.



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