I recently bought a house with an alarm system and I want to change some of the zone programming.
The alarm panel is a First Alert Pro FA-168CPS and I have the programming manual and can get into programming mode and change things. Unfortunately, my keypad is not an alpha-numberic one and so I can't program the zones.
The programming manual mentions the Compass software so I was hoping that I could do the zone programming using this. I downloaded Compass
1.5.8.54 and the First Alert Pro Canadian Personality disk (I live in Canada). The problem is that when I start up Compass, the First Alert Panels do not appear in the list of panels.Do I need any other software to get Compass to work with my panel? Can I connect Compass up to my panel directly without using a telephone line? Is there any special programming I need to do to the panel to get it to work with Compass? Is there any other way to do the zone programming without an alpha- numeric keypad?
I asked First Alert these questions and they simply referred me to a local dealer. I asked the local dealer and he only wanted to sell me alarm monitoring service. Can anybody help?