Newbee here.
I did a bit of reading here and could not find a clear answer to my question.
I am getting ready to purchase and install a model 3 in my Ademco 20p panel with an 8 port expansion module and 3 key pads. This panel also has an existing built in phone dialer which contacts my alarm company, Alarm Relay. I want to maintain their service as well as the features to arm/disarm/monitor from the EnvisaLink website.
I understand that I will need to add this new communicator as the next in line key pad address.
Where I am unsure is how do I handle the new EnvisaLink communications requirements.
Is the phone dialer considered a type of LLR?
Do I need to enable shadowing?
There are parameters already setup for the phone dialer listed under Comunications #3 for Alarm Relay and I do not want to mess those up.
From your Setup Guide:
3 - Communications Setup
Go to the following sections, and program them as indicated (Note: this is for Sole Communicator setups, you may need to specify different settings if you have more than one communicator enabled):
*48 - Contact ID. Use the default, Contact ID 4 by setting *48 to 77
*49 - Split/Dual report. *49, should be set to 5 to enable both communicators getting events
*50 - Burglar Dialer Delay (optional). The default is [2,0] which causes a 30 second delay until an alarm event is sent out. If you want the event to be sent out with no delay then set this to [0,0].
*54 - Dynamic Signalling. You should turn off the dynamic signalling delay by making *54 to 0
*55 - Communicator Priority. Put the reporting priority to, *55, to 1 to make sure the Envisalink gets the event first.
*48 My existing service uses contact ID, should be good here.
*49 set to Dual, correct???
*50 delay - whatever -
*54 Dynamic Signal Not sure what this is... will follow advice.
*55 Communicator priority. Phone dialer should get first notice as they are ones calling police, etc. How is this set?