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mivey

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Anyone simulate the handshake and kissoff from a central station to test communications and if so what do you use?
 
gadfly56

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mivey said:
No DACT around, just simple burglar alarm controls.
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OK, I'm missing something here. If you don't have a Digital Alarm Communicator Transmitter (DACT), how are you going to send the signals to the central station from the burglar panel :confused:? Is this a leased line or municipal tie?
 
mivey

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gadfly56 said:
OK, I'm missing something here. If you don't have a Digital Alarm Communicator Transmitter (DACT), how are you going to send the signals to the central station from the burglar panel :confused:? Is this a leased line or municipal tie?
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The alarm control panel would normally dial the CS. Like a Vista 10,15,20-P panel.
 
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mivey said:
You can certainly test by calling a central station, but I was thinking of a local diagnostics box.
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Are you currently having issues with your central station?

I have grow accustomed to listening to my test set for the hand shake and kiss off. I think I still have the sounds bites that i recorded from a panel that was transmitting contact id if you are interested?

How do you feel a local diagnostics box would be beneficial?
 
MAK

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I still don't understand why you would need a device to simulate a central station. Are you concerned that the panels you are working with are not communicating correctly? I am not sure what tone is the kiss off signal when listening in on a test set, but maybe you could get one of those line recorders to record the tones. Total guess here.
 
mivey

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fistfullofhate said:
Are you currently having issues with your central station?

I have grow accustomed to listening to my test set for the hand shake and kiss off. I think I still have the sounds bites that i recorded from a panel that was transmitting contact id if you are interested?

How do you feel a local diagnostics box would be beneficial?
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There is no local central station. The central station is at the contracted monitoring center (ADT, Brinks, etc). You can program a company number in if they will allow you to call them for a test (some product sales companies that also offer monitoring services will allow you to do that).

I can create the tones in a wave editor (and have done so). The data is transmitted but you can't see the reported data it without a module to convert it. I had thought about making one but did not want to do so if there was something inexpensive available. I have seen some for around a $2k but it seemed a bit much as I have no intention of becoming a monitoring center. I just thought it would be handy to have a local interface for testing purposes.
 
mivey

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MAK said:
I still don't understand why you would need a device to simulate a central station. Are you concerned that the panels you are working with are not communicating correctly? I am not sure what tone is the kiss off signal when listening in on a test set, but maybe you could get one of those line recorders to record the tones. Total guess here.
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The purpose would be for when there is no central station to be dialed or there is no active phone line on site.

The tones/handshake/data/kissoff details are spelled out in the alarm installation manual.
 
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