Am looking for a wireless device (transceiver) to sit between an Alarm Control Panel and a similar wireless device (transceiver) attached to the output jack of a Comcast cable box.
The purpose is to take the ACP digital signals that are normally transmitted over a land-line to a central station and, instead, transmit them to the receiving unit attached to the telephone jack at the rear of the Comcast cable box.
This device would solve the following problem:
Here in the Boston MA area the trend appears that Comcast is taking away the land-line business of residential customers from Verizon. Comcast installers, rather than placing their cable box (containing the dial-tone output jack) in the vicinity of the old Verizon interface (punch-down terminals, two-binding-post black protector ? where the outside drop meets all the red/green wires), typically in the basement, they are taking the route of least resistance by bringing their cable in through a 2nd floor window of a room where the cable box is to be located.
The customer's cordless base station is then plugged into the output jack at the rear of the cable box, providing dial tone to all the cordless house phones When there is no wall jack in the room, there is not even the opportunity to back feed dial tone to the common junction point in the basement where the reds and greens are all in parallel. On those occasions when there is a wall jack in the same room with the cable box, we can reconfigure the connections in the basement to provide line seizure.
Sometimes Comcast installers will get it right, rarely, back-feeding to a wall jack, and in the basement severing the
4-conductor cable from the remaining group of reds/greens, and reconfiguring to provide line-seizure.When the cable box resides in a part of the house where it is impossible or cost-prohibitive to get dial tone to the alarm system, and the customer does not want to pay for a cellular connection, the alternative for the customer is to forego the monitoring of the alarm system; hence a loss of revenue for us.
It therefore would be nice to employ some type of transceiver to ship the alarm signals from the ACP to a similar transceiver that would plug into the dial-tone output jack at the rear of the cable box. It would have to be a duplex device, as the ACP needs to receive the kiss-off tone from the central station. It would also be important that we be able to access the ACP via telephone line from our office, for remote programming.
Any ideas or work-arounds?
Thanks. Charlie.