Hi,
I'm in the market for an alarm for a domestic house.
I need:
20 wired zones (achieved by add on zone expanders if necessary) to use EOL wiring (I don't want wireless and I have a lot of rooms plus a garage and server room/headend to protect.)Must support 3 wired keypads (front door, back door and Landing)
Onboard POTS PSTN modem
Support for connection to smoke detectors, heat detectors and CO detectors via a change over relay contacts.
ability to add an ethernet module (so I can log into alarm remotely via boradband from anywhere)
Ability to add GSM/GPRS (to send text messages to my mobile phone & and secondary comms back up should POTS PSTN or Ethernet go down).
I've been looking at the Honeywell G2-20 and Honeywell Galaxy Flex FX020.
The Galaxy Flex seems overkill with DCM support (door control module) and ARC support and a gazillion programming options relating to the SIA.
The G2-20 seems like a good solution so far.
Any comment on using the G2-20 or galaxy flex in a domestic environment or can anyone else suggest other alternative alarm panels?
Regards
Stephen.