Hi DIY-ers, Joe here from AlarmGrid,
and today we're going to talk about how to use code
to a Vista security system.
Today, we're going to be speaking
about the Vista 10, the 15P, the 10P, the 15P, the 20P,
and the 21IP.
Now, the 10P can support up to 17 user codes,
the 15P can support up to 33 user codes,
the 20 and 21IP can support up to 49 user codes,
including the installer code on the system.
Now if your system is monitored, you
can actually use Total Connect 2.0 to add network user codes,
and then download them right to the system
after clicking Sync Users.
Also, if your security company has remote access
to your system, they can also update NAD user codes
and push them down your panel for you.
But if you do only have a keypad,
or if you want to enter them through the keypad itself,
you can certainly do that, and that's
what we're going to show you how to do today.
So right here we have a 21IP system,
and we also have a 6160 RF keypad.
Everything on the system is defaulted,
which means the master code is 1, 2, 3, 4, and the installer
code is 4, 1, 1, 2.
Let's start with the installer code.
The only thing you can do with that code
as far as user code programming goes
is edit the master code on the system.
To do that, what we're going to do
is we're going to enter the installer code.
So 4, 1, 2, 2.
We're going to click 8, and you'll
see 8 has code written on it, which is a great way
to remember that 8 is the button that's used for editing user
codes.
And then we're going to select the master code slot,
which is 02.
In system programming, the installer code
sits in the code slot number one.
The master code sits in code slot number two,
and then regular users are in code slots number three and up.
So we're going to change the master code to 7-8-9-6.
Let's see how to do that.
[BEEPING]
Installer code, 8-0-2.
[BEEP]
That ding lets us know that it was successfully changed.
A convenient way that you can check
to see if a user code edit went through into the system
is to enter the user code and then hit
1, which is disarm or off.
That's going to make the keypad ding
to let you know that the command was successful,
which means that the user code is in the panel.
So let's try it out.
[BEEPING]
So we know that, the master code has been changed successfully.
And it's working just fine.
Let's change it back to the default
though, for the rest of the bit.
[BEEPING]
So now we're back to 1-2-3-4.
Now to change the master code on the system,
you have to enter the master code itself.
8-0-2, and you enter the new master code two times
in a row, if you want to use the master
code to edit the master code.
So let's change it back to 7-8-9-6 using the master code.
[BEEPING]
So now to confirm that that one went in, let's to 7-8-9-6 then
1.
[BEEPING]
And we that we've edited the master
code using the master code.
Again, I'm going to change it back to the default. Whoops.
[BEEPING]
And then to confirm.
[BEEPING]
Perfect.
So now, to add a regular user code,
you have to use the master code.
The master code is the only code that's
going to let you edit user codes when doing hand
programming through the keypad.
So to add in the user code, we're
going to enter the master code, 8, and then
we're going to select the first user code slot, which is 3.
So after 8, we have to hit 03, and then we're going to enter
the user code for that user.
So let's try it out.
[BEEPING] Master, 8-0-3.
[BEEPING]
7-8-9-6.
We got a ding to let us know that it went successfully.
Let's see if it disarms the system.
[BEEPING]
So we know that it's in programming now,
and it's working just fine.
After this, there are settings in the user codes
that you can edit.
There's two different menus.
One is the attributes themselves,
and then you can go into the attributes and edit them.
On the bottom of this video, you'll
see that there's a link to the FAQ
that explains all the different attribute fields.
It's a convenient thing to load up,
just for a quick glance as a reminder to know what they are.
For the user codes themselves, the attribute fields,
attribute number one has to do with the authority level.
Attribute number two has to do with the access group, which
you likely won't have to edit.
Attribute number three has to do with which
partition the code resides on.
Attribute number four has to do with assigning
the code to an RF key fob, and attribute number 5
has to do with setting the code to be a pager or not pager,
which you likely won't have to deal with also.
Most commonly, you'll have to deal with attribute number
one, which is the authority level for the user code.
After going into that particular attribute,
the different authority levels you have for the user code
are zero, which means it's a standard user, which
means it can arm and disarm the system,
and it can't edit any user codes.
One, which means it's an arm only, which means the user code
can only be used to arm the system.
Two, which means it's a guest user,
which means that it can only disarm the system if it
was used to arm the system.
Three, which means that it's a duress user, which
means that the code will disarm the system,
but it's also going to send a panic to central station.
And four, you can set it to be a partition master,
which means that it can add and edit user codes on that
particular partition it resides on, but it cannot do it
on the other partition on the system,
or other partitions on the system.
The 21IP he has two partitions, the 20P
he also has two partitions.
So now let's change our user code
that we added in slot number three so that it's an arm
only user.
What we're going to have to do is
go into the attributes setting, and change it from 0 to 1.
So to do that, we're going to enter the master code, 8,
and select the user slot, 03, then hit pound to select
the attribute.
We're going to select one to do the authority level attribute,
and we're going to select 1 again to change it from 0 to 1.
So.
[BEEPING]
And now the user code that we added can only arm the system.
That's how to add and edit user codes on a vista system.
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