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Bob McDowell
2006-Mar-21 16:31 UTC
[Asterisk-Users] ADT/Brinks alarm dialing through Asterisk
Be very careful here. I work in this industry and can tell you that certain alarm formats are VERY sensitive to VoIP. Your best bet is to avoid it until the industry comes up with an Alarm-over-IP standard. It may work today and not tomorrow. It may work over long distance numbers, but not over 800 numbers. It gets weird. Personally, I blame the cost-saving efforts of our friendly neighborhood telcos... Now if you're talking about analog-Asterisk-analog then you'd probably be fine. Bob McDowell ________________________________ From: asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Lists Sent: Tuesday, March 21, 2006 4:45 PM To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com Subject: [Asterisk-Users] ADT/Brinks alarm dialing through Asterisk Has anyone successfully hooked up ADT or Brinks home alarm system to say a analog port or SIPURA through Asterisk? TIA
Shane Young
2006-Mar-22 01:07 UTC
[Asterisk-Users] ADT/Brinks alarm dialing through Asterisk
Quoting asterisk@totemspace.com:> A secondary issue may be insurance. In a domestic situation, if you receive a discount for having > an alarm installed, you may find that the insurance discount is only valid if the alarm is > installed over POTS, and usually by hardwiring. > > This is for actuarial reasons, that is to say the premiums are based on the reliability of POTS. > Any rerouting of alarm over VOIP could invalidate your insurance leaving you uninsured!Generally, to receive the discount, there is some language surrounding a UL listed central station. Dialup POTS is one way alarms are connected to central stations. There are also systems which use a dedicated (non-dial) line, IP, Cellular and even a relatively new system which uses the skytel pager network to communicate. ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.
Chris Mason (Lists)
2006-Mar-22 05:45 UTC
[Asterisk-Users] ADT/Brinks alarm dialing through Asterisk
Lists wrote:> > Has anyone successfully hooked up ADT or Brinks home alarm system to > say a analog port or SIPURA through Asterisk? > > >I tried to to do with with another alarm system and gave up. The tones are too high frequency to work. -- Chris Mason NetConcepts (264) 497-5670 Fax: (264) 497-8463 Int: (305) 704-7249 Fax: (815)301-9759 UK 44.207.183.0271 Cell: 264-235-5670 Yahoo IM: netconcepts_anguilla@yahoo.com -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/attachments/20060322/cd68aa60/attachment.htm
asterisk@totemspace.com
2006-Mar-22 06:57 UTC
[Asterisk-Users] ADT/Brinks alarm dialing through Asterisk
A secondary issue may be insurance. In a domestic situation, if you receive a discount for having an alarm installed, you may find that the insurance discount is only valid if the alarm is installed over POTS, and usually by hardwiring. This is for actuarial reasons, that is to say the premiums are based on the reliability of POTS. Any rerouting of alarm over VOIP could invalidate your insurance leaving you uninsured! Cheers Rajiv>I would stick with POTS over using the internet. With >the internet there are more points of failure (IMO). >As far as people cutting the wires we have both. We >have a reg. pots line and a prepaid cell phone >connected in for backup. > >> >> From: asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com >> [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com] On >> Behalf Of Lists >> Sent: Tuesday, March 21, 2006 4:45 PM >> To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com >> Subject: [Asterisk-Users] ADT/Brinks alarm dialing >> through Asterisk >> >> >> >> Has anyone successfully hooked up ADT or Brinks home >> alarm system to say >> a analog port or SIPURA through Asterisk? >> >> >> >> TIA >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com >> -- >> >> Asterisk-Users mailing list >> To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: >> >> >http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com >> -- >> >> Asterisk-Users mailing list >> To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: >> >> >http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users >> > > >__________________________________________________ >Do You Yahoo!? >Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around >http://mail.yahoo.com >_______________________________________________ >--Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- > >Asterisk-Users mailing list >To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users