Hey DIY-ers, I'm George at Alarm Grid.
Today we're going to be going over how
to connect your GC3 to Wi-Fi.
Now the GC3s actually come with a Wi-Fi communicator built in,
so you don't have to worry about going out and buying
another expansion module for the panel.
It has Wi-Fi built in.
I'm going to show you two ways on how
to connect to your Wi-Fi.
And the first way is going to be the very easiest way.
If you look at the top right logo of the screen,
there's a 2GIG icon.
A lot of people miss this, but it's actually a button.
If you press that, it's going to take you to a keypad menu.
You're going to enter in your installer code.
For me, it's defaulted at 1561.
Again, the installer code could be different
if you or your monitoring company has changed it.
If you look towards the bottom right there,
you're going to see Network Settings.
This is where you're going to connect or disconnect
from your Wi-Fi or change any Wi-Fi settings that you
may want to.
So I go to Network Settings.
I'm going to go ahead and make my way over to Wireless.
Now from there, you're going to see a list of Wi-Fi networks.
If you don't see yours, go ahead and hit refresh
to bring up any new networks that
could have possibly came on.
For me, I'm going to go ahead and connect to my Alarm Grid
Wi-Fi network.
I'm just going to highlight it.
It's going to take me to a page where
it's going to ask me to enter in the password and then hit Next.
So I'm going to go ahead and enter in my password.
This is very difficult upside down.
I'm going to go hit next.
As soon as I hit next, it's going to take me to a page.
I have it on auto assign.
Well, it automatically has it on auto assign.
So it's going to assign your IP, any other network
configurations that you need to have,
your subnet mask, your gateway DNS server.
If you have something you want to do manual,
you can go ahead and do manual and change it on your own.
We're going to have it set to auto.
We don't recommend doing static IP.
So after it's assigned it, you have it set to auto.
We're going to go ahead and wait there until it loads.
I'm just going to hit the back arrow key all the way out
to my home screen.
And that's the very first way of doing it.
The second way is actually going in to System Settings, which
is the button on the right hand side of the panel.
Now for that, you can actually either use your master code
or your installer code.
So the master code for this panel we also have it
defaulted at 1111.
The master code could be different,
depending if you or your company has changed it,
so you want to make sure you use the one that's on the panel.
I'm going to show you guys both ways of getting in.
System disarmed.
Ready to arm.
I'm going to go to System Settings, enter in my master
code, 1111,
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Takes me to the system settings page--
or I'm going to make my way over,
and I'm going to use the default installer code, 1561.
If I scroll down you're going to see
Network Settings, the same button we saw in the installer
toolbox.
I'm going to go ahead and hit that.
Again you hit Wireless.
And you can go in and connect to that.
If you need to disconnect from a network
and reconnect to another one, you're
going to see that there is a Forget Network button.
So if I highlight it, I can go ahead and do Forget Network.
You're going to hit Yes to confirm.
And then it is no longer connected to Alarm Grid.
You can go ahead and scroll down your choices
and connect to anything else there is.
I'm just going to go ahead and back out to the home screen
here.
So again, that's the quick way on how to connect
to Wi-Fi on your GC3.
Now it is recommended not to just stay on Wi-Fi.
Now if you've seen our plans, you're
going to see that we have a Cell Bronze and a Cell Silver that
are Wi-Fi or internet only plans.
Now even though the GC3 can connect and be on Wi-Fi only,
alarm.com does not offer services
for internet only paths.
They only allow plans that include cellular.
So when we go ahead and go get activated,
you're going to want to make sure
that you have a cellular communicator for your GC3.
Right now, the current options are Rogers,
if you're in Canada, there's a Verizon LTE,
and there's an AT&T 3G.
You have those three different options to grab for your GC3
and get it activated.
Like I said, unfortunately our alarm.com
does not allow us to use internet only paths.
But the good thing about that is that since you're
using cellular, you're always going
to have that back up communication which gives you
99% redundancy, basically meaning
that if your Wi-Fi ever fails, the cellular is
going to pick up.
Now how many of you guys have issues where
your Wi-Fi goes in and out?
Let's say you're alarm--
someone's breaking in while your Wi-Fi goes out,
and if you don't have a cellular communicator in,
there is no way for the panel to send the signal out.
That's why it's always recommended
to have a cellular communicator, regardless.
So 2GIG actually doing you guys a favor
by making you guys go with a cellular communicator.
So again, Wi-Fi, cellular communicator as your backup--
you can connect the GC3 to the Wi-Fi since it's built in.
This was a quick video on showing you how to do that.
If you guys have any further questions,
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Again, I'm George with Alarm Grid.
Thank you guys very much.
And I'll see you guys next time.