I replaced three old Admeco 5816 Wireless Transmitters with new 5820 Slim Line Wireless Transmitters and sent my new serial numbers off to my installer to have all three added to my system.
He said it's taken care of (and charged me $40 for the "install"), but all three zones don't register the "open/closed" state. They register a tamper if I try to remove the cover, but nothing when it comes to opening the window.
Do the 5820s require different settings than the 5816? Any ideas?
That makes a lot of sense. Agreed--the installer should have picked up on it right away. I would do all the programming myself, but I locked-in to a five year contract when I moved into my home (and knew nothing about alarm systems). There's a year on the contract left, and they agreed to give me my master code when I'm done. Then I don't have to deal with all this dumb back and forth.
He got the loop number wrong programming it, that one uses loop 1 instead of loop 2 like the 5816's. The installer SHOULD have tested it and he would have found that out instead of you
I think he needs to change the loop from 2 to 1.
Jim Rojas
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