DSC 832 Wil Not Communicate

[dennise9@earthlink.net]

I cannot get my Power832 communicator to dial my cell phone. After a
forced alarm, the event buffer shows the (deliberate) zone opening but
shows no attempts to communicate at all. There are no FTCs in the
buffer, and no call is made to my cell phone. Other than this
communicator problem, this alarm system works just fine. Here are setup
details.


Power832 (5010 version 2) system equipment setup:
8-zone residential installationin 2 year old house just purchased.
About 22 Door, window and motion sensors only.
Telco phone wires connected to tip and ring terminals.
House phone wires connected to T1 and R1 terminals.
I have two LCD5500Z keypads.



Power832 (5010 version 2) progranning setup:
(I am using the DSC Installer manual together with the programming
worksheets)
160: 8
161: 40
301: DTenDigitTelNumberFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
302: all Fs
310: 5555
320: 31,32,33,34,35,36,37,38
329: FF (in each zone 1-8)
360: 05,05
361: 1
365: 1
380: 1

Earlier attempts to get this comminucator working did report an FTC in
the event buffer, but there was never a cell phone call. About that
time, a stubborn communicator trouble occured (yellow LED stuck on). I
reset the 5010 panel with AC and battery power off then AC power on
followed by battery reconnect. The communicator trouble message and LED
then cleared.

What an I doing wrong? All I want is my cell phone to be called
whenever any alarm occurs. I am not interested in getting report code
info at this time. However I understand that the "320" report codes
cannot be "FFs", or the communicator will not dial out.

Can anyone help ???? The original installer will not return phone
calls! This should really be simple.

[dennise9@earthlink.net]

Problem solved!!

There were two certain problems and possible delay/timing problems
(i.e. adding in the Es for delay).

1. Indeed, filling tel 1 (301) with Fs seems to be needed for cell
phone calls. The cell number has to be in tel 2 (302).

2. After fixing 1 above, the dialer was making the call but it did NOT
go through. I determined this using J. Rojas' excellent advice of
listening in while the dialer made the call. Seems my local telephone
provider was not setup to take any long distance calls. I got around
this by pre-pending a 'dial around' code in tel 2 (I used 1010636)
before my 1+AC+7digit cell number.

The panel communicator is up and working fine now!

If anyone wants my actual section programming, please advise here and I
will post.

Dennis E

[Armond Perretta]

dennise9@earthlink.net wrote:
>
> If anyone wants my actual section programming, please advise here
> and I will post.

I'd appreciate seeing this.

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