Honeywell 5809: Program to 2GIG GC3

Hi, DIYers. This is Frank at Alarm Grid. We're back in the Alarm Grid lab working on the 2GIG GC3 wireless self-contained alarm system.

Today, we'll be programming the Honeywell 5809 wireless heat detector. This is not a life safety device, but is a wireless heat detector designed to detect high heat at a fixed temp of 135, mainly designed for either commercial properties or areas of the home that may have smoke. So you know, the most popular place for this would be a kitchen so that you can avoid any smoke false alarms, but still protect and get the fire department out there during a fire in the kitchen area.

So we'll show you how to program this into GC3. The first thing you'll want to do is slide this counter clockwise, open up the unit, and put in your battery, which I've already done just for the video here. So we have the plus symbol going to the plus sign here.

You'll see it has an RF test button here and then a tamper switch. So we can use this RF Test feature to actually enroll this particular unit into the keypad. We will go right into system-- into the Installer Tool Box by adding the 2GIG symbol on the top-right. And then will enter our default installer code, which is 1 5 6 1.

If you've already changed that code, then you can just use that new installer code here. We'll do System Config, and then Wireless Zones. We'll go ahead and delete our previous zone here. And we'll start with zone one.

So we can set up. We can hit Edit Zone on the right. We use the dropdown here to swipe down all the way to 24-hour fire. This is type nine.

There are two ways to program a smoke or heat sector, either regular fire, which is basically a single trip creates an alarm. That's type nine. Or you can go all the way down here to type 16, which is fire with verification. The difference there if this is in a kitchen-- and oftentimes, you do have false alarms-- generally, with smoke detectors that's where the fire with verification will come in.

If this trip's, generally, it is the real thing. If you did want to set it to fire with verification so it has to trip twice to send out, you could do that if you have had false alarms in the past. Otherwise, we want to set this on type nine-- I'm going set this on type nine, which is 24-hour fire. So we'll keep that there and move to Equipment Code.

We can scroll down here to where it says HW for Honeywell. And you'll see 0 5 5 7 for the 5809, which is this device here. So we can then move to the next section.

We have serial number. So here's where we can auto enroll this or manually enroll. So there is a serial number listed right here on the inside of the tamper, of tamper cover, the smoke head. You can also auto enroll using this RF Test icon here. So we'll go ahead and show you how to auto enroll.

We'll hit Learn and then press in all this. And you'll see 0448259. And that also says that there. So we'll except that. Be cognisant when auto enrolling that if you have a motion detector in the area to avoid that from sending the serial number from that motion when it trips, rather than the device you're trying to enroll. So that's why you always want to double check.

So we can move down to the next field here. We have Equipment Age as new, the Sensor Loop. So for the 5809, we always want to use a loop one. You'll notice that it learned in as a loop two. That's because we use that Test button. So just always set this to loop one for the 5809.

And then we can move down to Voice Descriptor. We can put this in as the kitchen smoke-- always want to use-- or actually kitchen heat. You always want to use the words that are listed in the white tab here that way they will voice enunciate from the keypad.

So we can now hit Done. We'll go to Censor Reports. We always want fire devices to report to central station. So we'll keep that enabled, Sensors Supervised.

We always want to keep an eye on this to make sure it's transmitting our signal back and forth to the system. So we want to supervise that communication and make sure that it does stay online. If it ever does not ping back, you'll get in RF supervision trouble, where you can get a text and email through alarm.com or a phone call from the central station so that you can remedy whatever issue is causing that supervision error.

Here, chimes I usually just disable on fire devices. The reason why is when the trips, it will trigger an alarm. So there's no need for a chime. So we will go back to Return to System Config, back out. We can use this as a triple check to make sure we have the proper serial number.

I already know that I auto enrolled and double checked. So that's fine. We'll hit Save.

System disarmed. Ready to arm.

And now at this point, what you could do is you could open this up, make sure you get the tamper. And you can even use this as a test, which we'll do right now, which we can press this RF test key again. And we'll see if we get the fire.

I'll use our master code, which is still on default, 1 1 1 1. And it says alarm report, ready, cancel the dispatch or cancel the transmission. I left that and let it go. I don't have this hooked up to a central station currently.

If you do have central station monitoring, be sure to put your system on test before testing any smoke or heat detectors. We can clear the alarm history here after the test. And then we can put this tamper cover right back on.

You want to line up these white plastic tabs here with these openings on the center. So we can just slide that in, turn clockwise, and lock it in. So that's how you program the Honeywell 5809 Wireless Heat Detector with the 2GIG GC3. If you have any other questions on programming this device or any others with your GC3, you can email us at support@alarmgrid.com. And don't forget to subscribe to our channel.