I want to get rid of my land line and wire my alarm panel to a cell phone. My idea was to get a prepaid cell phone, a docking station and a ups. After researching, the DocknTalk website suggests that their dock won't work on security systems, fax machines, etc. because digital cell carriers conflict with the tones or something. Is there a way around this? The communicator is an old Moose. Thanks
DocknTalk
Jan 29, 2007
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Read the thread below started on 1/21 "Telular Telguard...." read the entire thread it will give you some insight. (you don't have to read the tit for tat crap though :-)
These products do not transmit over the talking channel. You will need an alarmco that will set it up for you, because if you are an enduser you won't be able to setup an account with Uplink, Telular, Alarmnet etc.
...my previous post assumes that you want this for monitoring by a CS, in which case you should talk to your existing alarmco.
For your application I could have recommended searching for a DSC Links
1000 cellular phone on eBay, but with the "Sunset Clause" I figure any units that are still "out there and going strong" are due to be phased out anyway. Sometimes the "older technology" still retains some appeal. For instance, you could download the "Classic" series panels through the Links 1000 (which made the whole application ideal for places like construction sites where there was no phone line). For cellular communications you're going to be limited to using an alarm communicator that will require activation through a security dealer (and that will require a monitoring contract which means a central station facility with all the gear to process the signals it generates).
application I could have recommended searching for a DSC Links
And what if the dockntalk thing worked a few times when you tested it, then didn't work when you needed it?
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