VISTA 128BPT: Programming a Wireless Zone

[AUDIO LOGO] Hello, DIYers. Griffin with Alarm Grid here. And today, I'm going to demonstrate on how to program a wireless zone for 128BPT, and also set up the wireless receiver and program the device address for the 5881. So let's go ahead and let's get started. So we're going to start with the 5881. This is your standard wireless receiver in order to use wireless devices, such as the 5816, which we're going to use for demonstration. A couple of things I want to go over. Whenever you open it you're going to see this blue wire here. We do not use that blue wire. We only use the black, green, yellow, and red wire for connections to the ECP bus on terminals 6, 7, 8, and 9. And then we set the addresses by these DIP switches here. There are five DIP switches. So what we do is address 07, DIP switch 2, 3, and 4 is on. And on is away from the number. Off is towards the number. The reason why we use address 07 is it's the highest number that it can go, and it frees up using your lower addresses for your cellular communicator and touchscreen keypads. So technically, the plug-in for the 5881 is keyed for only one way. So you can only install it in one way. There's a couple of notches on the bottom of it there, so that way you don't plug it in wrong and reverse the connections. And so it just gets connected in here in this little slot right there. All right, so now the next part we're going to discuss is programming for the receiver and the zone. So since we can't program the zone without a receiver, we will program the receiver first by getting into programming with 4140, then 8000. To get into device programming, we want to go to the menu mode of star 93 So the first thing you're going to see is Zone Programming. We're not going to go into that just yet, so we're going to hit 0 until we get to Device Programming. Expert Mode is a form of zone programming. We don't usually recommend getting into that because everything is abbreviated and it doesn't tell you what each field is. Report Code Programming-- that's where you would of course program your report codes-- opening, closings, test report code. Alpha Programming is where you program the alpha descriptors for your keypad. For example, on this keypad you could program a zone for front door. And whenever you open that door, it would display front door on the display. Device programming is where we want to go. So you can go up to address 01 through 30, address 00 by default is set for alpha console. And it cannot be disabled because that's set for your first keypad that you connect for programming. So again, we're going to go into address 07 star. Now, the device type for address 07 should be 03 for RF Expander. We're going to hit star. RF House ID code-- that's if you're using bi-directional devices. And what I mean by directional devices, it will send the status of the panel, such as a 5828. It is a fixed display wireless keypad. And since this has a built-in transceiver, this 6162 can actually send status of the panel to 5828 so we're not doing anything with bi-directional. We're going to leave that at 00. And it's going to take us directly into the next device address. So we're just going to hit 00 to quit. It's going to ask to do Quick Menu Mode. I'm going to say yes, and then go directly back into star 93 because we can get there quicker that way. So we want to go into zone programming. Yes. Set to confirm. So since we're dealing with a wireless device, it's going to display for a serial number. So I'm going to say Yes to this, so that way, we can test it to make sure we get the correct serial number. We're going to start on Zone 10 to do the wireless. OK, so this is your display of what's already programmed in the zone. So of course, at the top, zone 10, the ZT is Zone Type. The P is for Partition, the RC is for Report Code, the IN is for input type and the L is for Loop. So we're going to get Zone Response Type. So what we want to put here is, I'm just going to put your standard. Say, we're going to do a door. We're going to make a Zone Type 01 for Entry/Exit 1. So now the first thing we're going to see is Arm with Fault. If you program it to the zone type 01 for Entry/Exit 1, 02 for Entry/Exit 2, or 04 or 10 for motion detectors, you'll be presented with this prompt. Enabling this option allows you to arm the system if the zone is faulted. If this option is enabled, but Force Arm is not enabled for the same zone, then the zone must be restored before the end of the exit delay. If not, then the entry delay will begin. And if the system is not disarmed before it ends, an alarm will occur. This behavior is also governed by Exit Error Logic, which is enabled in 1 star 20. Let's go ahead and enable that. This screen is for enabling Force Arming. If you answered Yes to Arm with Fault, then you will see this prompt. If you choose Yes for Force Arming, then if this zone is still faulted at the end of the exit delay, the zone will be automatically bypassed. And it will stay bypassed. It will not revert back to a faulted state. If you choose Yes for Arm with Fault, but No to Force Arming, then if the zone is faulted during arming and remains faulted at the end of the exit delay, either Exit Error Logic will take effect. Or if Exit Error Logic is not enabled, an alarm will occur. So we'll go ahead and answer Yes to this. So Stay mode-- there's three types of Stay mode. There's Stay 1, Stay 2, and Stay 3. In this mode, if you program a zone type 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, or a 10, you will see this prompt. The valid options are 0 for No or 1 for Stay 1 or 2 for Stay 2. Zone types with 04 and 10 are automatically assigned to Stay Mode 1 by default, as they are interior zone types. Zones inside the Stay Mode 1 are automatically bypassed, either user code plus 3 Stay or user code plus 31, we'll put it in Stay 1. If you want Stay 2, you would arm it by your four-digit user code 32. Or if you want to do Stay 3-- which Stay three will bypass all motion detectors that are in Stay 1 and Stay 2, you would enter your four-digit code 33. So what we're going to do is answer Yes to Stay 1, and then hit star. So Auto-stay-- so of course, the same zone types. If zone type 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, or 10 are programmed, you will be offered this option. If you choose Yes, then this zone will automatically be bypassed in the event a system doesn't see an Entry/Exit zone. Fault and restores-- during exit delays remember that zone types 03 and 05 do not provide an exit delay time. If enabling Auto-stay, be sure at least one zone on the partition is programmed for an Entry/Exit, which what just programmed is for an Entry/Exit. Otherwise, the Auto-stay zone will always be bypassed when arming. And since this zone is an Entry/Exit, it will not bypass in Stay 1 or Stay 2. Stay 1, Stay 2, Stay 3 only affects motions programmed to be bypassed in those fields. So silent alarm-- Silent, if we answer Yes to this zone types, any zone type, that reports to the central station-- zone type 01, 02, 03, 04, and 05. And 10 will offer you the Silent option. If you choose Yes, then this zone will behave in every way as described in the zone type definition. But an alarm on the zone will not sound the keypad or the siren, and will not display the alarm at the keypad. So answer Yes to that. OK, so Bypass Group-- so again, same zone types-- 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, and zone type 10 will provide this prompt. You can create up to 15 bypass groups. This allows you to quickly bypass multiple zones without having to enter each zone number during the arming one at a time. If you do not wish to use group arming for this zone, enter 00. To bypass the group zones, you would enter user code 6 plus star then plus the group number. We're not going to use Bypass Group, so we're just going to leave that as 0. So Partition is where we get into separation of the security panel. The 128BPT can do up to eight partitions. It's like having eight separate security systems in one. So for an example, you've got a house and a garage. You can arm either one of those independently if you put, say, the house on partition 1 and the garage on partition 2. So if you arm the house, it will not affect the garage unless you go to partition 2 and arm it or disarm it from whatever state you want to change it from. And you would enable more partitions in 2 star 00. By default, there's only one partition enabled in the 128BPT. So Report Code is where you enable the report codes for your zone. So by default, zone 10 is a 01, 00. If for some odd reason, you do not want the zone to report, all you got to do is make the first digit a 00. And then with it being a 00, it will not report. So we're just going to keep it as a 01 for default. So you hit star, and then it flashes to the second digit. And then it shows you the report code there at the end. So this next screen is Input Type. With it being a wireless device, of course, we want it set up as an input type of 03-- RF Transmitter. This input type is supervised. And when it's supervised, it's going to ping in every 70 to 90 minutes. And if the panel does not see at least one ping within a 12-hour time period, the zone will go into trouble. The next Input Type is Input type 4-- Unsupervised, which means if you set this as an input type of 04, the device will still attempt to ping in every 70, 90 minutes by default. But the panel doesn't care if it sees it or not. So if it is set to this input type and the wireless device is not communicating, it would never know. So then we go into 05. That is Button RF. Button RF is used for your key fobs-- your arming and disarming and arming stay key fobs. And then we go into the next one, which is 06. In a previous video, we spoke about serial polling loops. So this is for serial polling loop. It's a hardwired serial connection, so we're not going to discuss that. And then the older polling loop is DIP switch serial polling loop, which does not use a serial. It's a DIP switch poll. It goes by zone assignment by DIP switches on it, which is an older type of DIP switch polling. It's an older type, so the 128BPT is preferred serial polling loop. So let's go ahead and go back to our Input Type we want, which is 03 because we want it to be supervised. Because it's a security device, we're going to hit star. So this is the Tamper Option on this for wireless devices. It already has a built-in tamper. That's going to stay 0, so we're going to go ahead and hit star. This screen, Smart Contact, that's if your device has Smart Contact features. The only two devices that have Smart Contacts are usually motion and smoke detectors. For smoke detectors, you want to make sure that the smoke detector has this feature before you enable it. And the same goes for the motion. You want to make sure that the motion has this feature before you enable it. For smoke detectors, once it falls out of sensitivity or if the head gets dirty, or something just happens to the head, it will send a signal over to the panel that there's something wrong with the trouble. Motion detectors-- again, make sure the motion has this feature. It's for high-traffic areas. And what it does, the zone will automatically restore after a fault, even if it does not get the restore from the motion. Since we're going to be demonstrating with a door contact, we don't want to enable that, so we're just going to hit star. So this is your screen where you learn in the serial number. And so what we have today is a 5816. And with the 5816, there's two markings on the side of it that show you where the magnet is supposed to go and the orientation of the magnet. And whenever we trigger this, it's supposed to be learned underneath the loop 2. So let's go ahead and let's learn it in. So that's the serial number. We'll trigger it again here. So we triggered it twice. And now it's flashing underneath the loop number. After the second trigger, it's supposed to go underneath the loop number 2. So we want to hit star. So now set to confirm is going to verify that we've got the correct serial number. So whenever I trigger this, we should see two serial numbers that are the same, which we do underneath the loop 2. Now I'm going to demonstrate what it looks like whenever you have the incorrect serial number. So I'm going to grab another 5816, a brown one here. I'm going to hit pound to go back. So we're on Transmit to Confirm. And again, we're just going to stick the magnet up against the 5816. And you see there we've got two separate serial numbers. So that is a good way to help to indicate that you have the right serial number in your system. So if you see two different serial numbers, just hit pound back. It's going to be flashing on the loop number. So if we need to reset the serial number in a zone, we hit 0. And you see how it sets all the A's to 0, but we're looking for the X's. We're going to hit star. Then we're going to hit star again. And then it resets over. And just trigger the device. Do this one. And then we're going to trigger the device again. And of course, set to confirm. And we got the same serial number, which is good. We're going to hit star. Then it's going to give us the summary screen. You'll see the zone type we program, the partition, the report code, the input type, which is RF, and the loop number, which is 2. And it moves us on to the next zone. So we've now successfully programmed zone 10 for wireless utilizing the 5816. So when you're done programming, what you want to do is just press 0 three times, and then star. It's going to say Quit Menu Mode. If you're done doing anything else, just press 1 for Yes. And if you're done programming your system, just hit star 99 to exit. And generally, it takes about two to three minutes for it to reset. And that's programming a wireless sensor on a 128BPT and setting up the receiver for it to communicate on. And that there's how you program a 5816 wireless into a 128BPT. Again the same process is for any wireless device that's a 5800 series-- motion, smokes. And that's also how you program and set up the 5881 receiver in device programming. If you have any questions, you can send us an email to support@alarmgrid.com, or head to our website alarmgrid.com. If you found this video helpful, please like and subscribe. And don't forget to hit that bell icon for future notifications for future videos I'm Griffin with Alarm Grid. I'm happy to help.