Sanity Check Please

[SiliconSmell]

About ready to help someone upgrade their system. They want to try:
DSC Power832 (or maybe an Power864)
Hybrid config
SkyRoute
AlarmRelay service
Saw it all at NorcoAlarms/HomeSecurityStore.

Any advice/suggestions/warnings?

Thanks!

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[Frank Olson]

About ready to help someone upgrade their system. They want to try:
DSC Power832 (or maybe an Power864)
Hybrid config
SkyRoute
AlarmRelay service
Saw it all at NorcoAlarms/HomeSecurityStore.

Any advice/suggestions/warnings?

Thanks!

Just some advice... Read the "freakin'" manual!!! )

You have to be a dealer to set up a SkyRoute account. That means you also
have to have a CS to call out to.

 

[alarman]

About ready to help someone upgrade their system. They want to try:
DSC Power832 (or maybe an Power864)
Hybrid config
SkyRoute
AlarmRelay service
Saw it all at NorcoAlarms/HomeSecurityStore.

Any advice/suggestions/warnings?

I'm looking at Tellular's new TG-7 digital unit, as the Skyroute units will
all go down when the AMPS network goes away. This may not happen right away,
but cell carriers will no longer be required to support the analog system
after February, 2008. I would expect the clock to start ticking then.

Anybody have any experience with these units?

http://www.telular.com/telguard/tgDigital.asp

js

 

[SiliconSmell]

Thanks for all the info. The demise of AMPS being an issue for an
alarm had not occurred to me, GSM would be a good idea longevity-wise.

 

[Mark Leuck]

Thanks for all the info. The demise of AMPS being an issue for an
alarm had not occurred to me, GSM would be a good idea longevity-wise.

Other devices besides alarm cellular backups use those channels as well so I
doubt it will be going away anytime soon