Vonage and ADT revisited

Posts: 1 · New Forum Member Joined: Jun 25, 2009 Posts: 1

After reading about everything on the internet about vonage and ADT I made significant progress today in getting my alarm to work with vonage but I have a question as it is still not working properly.

First off I have a Ademco Vista 20p being monitored by ADT. The alarm was not installed by ADT so the programming is not proprietary. I have gotten to the point that my alarm panel is actually dialing out through vonage and I can pick up the phone and here the central station "beeping" however it doesn't seem to be sending any information as it keeps calling back (8 times in 10 minutes).

To get to this point I have reversed the wires inside my panel which seemed to work for some people and I have went in through installer mode and changed my report format to "4+2 ademco L/S standard".

My question is, is this the correct 4+2 format that I should be using? In the programming guide there are two others, 4+2 Radionics standard and 4+2 Ademco Express.

Any help or further suggestions anyone can give me would be greatly appreciated. I refuse to pay 199.99 for cell guard and more money for monitoring.

Posts: 43 · Full Forum Member Joined: Nov 27, 2006 Posts: 43

jdmack0208 wrote:

Any help or further suggestions anyone can give me would be greatly appreciated. I refuse to pay 199.99 for cell guard and more money for monitoring.

How about a GSM terminal (or whatever they are called)? you could find some in ebay for under $60. Then get a prepaid SIM...