Hi, DIYers, Joe from Alarm Gird, and today, we're
going to talk about how to enable
the receiver or transceiver inside of a 6160RF keypad.
Now we have a 6160 mounted right here.
It's a push button keypad.
It has a full alphanumeric display.
And it actually has a built-in transceiver right
inside the unit.
What this will allow you to do is
interface as many wireless devices with your Vista system
as the system can handle.
We have a 21IP mounted down here.
And all Vista systems, they don't
have any receivers or transceivers
built-in to the board itself.
So if we're installing a new one and you take it out of the box,
you're going to notice that the board has
no way of interfacing with any wireless devices as is.
You have to install a receiver or a transceiver.
Now the 6160RF is the recommended device to install.
As in most instances, it can be less
expensive than the compatible transceiver, which
is the same thing except without the keypad features.
And it basically kills two birds with one stone,
because it gives you that alphanumeric keypad
that you can use for programming on the system or just general
system operation.
And it also has the receiver built inside of it.
So you don't have to install two devices.
You can install one and be done with it.
It connects right to the ECP bus, which
are these four terminals right down here,
like any other keypad.
And it works great.
As you can see, we do have a low system battery--
I am aware of that-- and that's because we
have to actually reboot the system
to get into the programming on the keypad.
This keypad has a setup menu that you access only
by restarting the system 100%, turning it back on,
and then pressing and holding the 1 and 3
to get in the programming.
One thing to watch out about the 6160RF
keypad though is when you're in programming,
it's going to quickly jump out of programming if you
don't press a button.
So if you did get into programming
on it and you are starting to adjust some stuff
and you have to sit and think about something
and it jumps out of programming, you'll
just need to redo the process to get back into programming
and redo your changes.
If it does jump out, it's not going
to save the menu that you had selected.
And you may just have to readjust stuff.
So it's not the biggest deal in the world,
but if you do see this happening just be aware
that's because you're waiting too long
on one particular screen.
It's timing out, and it's going back to the main menu.
So now let's get into programming on the keypad.
To do this, we have to fully turn the system off, turn it
back on, and then press 1 and 3 on the keypad right
after it turns on.
And for this, I'm going to leave our backup battery unplugged.
So I'm going to take the hot leg off.
We don't need the battery plugged in
to access the keypad.
And if you do have a battery and you are doing this process
and the panel is far away from the keypad,
don't feel like you have to plug-in the battery every time
before running over to the keypad.
You can just leave it unplugged, just
in case you have to restart the system again
to do this process a second time.
So I'm going to go over to my power strip over here.
And as you can see, the keypads down here
are completely off, which means we are powered down.
We have our Tux and our VAM running off
of the backup power supply, which is mounted over here.
So those still have power.
I'm going to power our system back up.
As you can see, we're coming online.
The keypad showing busy standby and then
the version number of it.
And I'm going to press and hold 1 and 3.
There we go.
The first menu we're going to get con address.
This is the actual address of the keypad, the 20, the 15P,
and the 21IP can have up to eight addresses.
And they go from address 16 to address 23.
And as you can see, we just backed out of programming.
So that's one of the issues that you're
going to want to watch out with this
is that if you take too long, it's going
to go back to the main menu.
And you'll have to restart the process.
Now the 1 and 3 is going to work for about 50 seconds
after you power the system up.
So I should be able to get back in by pressing or holding.
There we go.
So to continue through cause this is correct, if it's on 16
and it's the only keypad on the my system and it's working,
you can just hit star.
The next thing-- here's your receiver.
Our receivers on.
To toggle it on and off, we do 0 or 1.
So if I want to turn off, I'd had 0.
If I want to turn on, I hit 1.
Start and Continue.
The receiver address on a 15, 20, and 21IP,
it's going to be 00.
For high level panels, it can change depending
on how the programming is.
And as you can see, we just backed out to the main menu,
because I took too long, and I didn't hit a button.
So I'm going restart the system again.
Come back up, press and hold 1 and 3.
So con address, that's good, 16 star.
Receiver-- our receivers on.
So we're going hit Start and Continue.
Our receiver address 15, 20, 21IP at 00.
So that's correct.
We're going to star.
High security-- most of the time you're going to leave this off.
I would check with your security provider
or check out the manual if you do want to use this feature,
as it's a little more advanced.
If you do find that keyfobs or some devices
are not working properly on your system,
it may be because that feature is currently on.
So you just want to make sure that ones off.
And as you can see, it backed out again.
So I'm going to jump back in.
So star, receiver on, star 00.
High security off.
That's what we want.
And then disable high security devices,
we don't need to do this.
This, again, has to go back to the previous menu.
And again, it's really worth it to check with your security
provider on how to set this up if it is something
that you're even going to use.
So I want to just try to get through the menu once
without it backing out.
Star, receivers on, star, receiver address 00.
Star-- high security mode off in most instances, star,
and then disable high security devices.
No is fine.
You just star right through.
After you get past that point, it's
going to save your programming changes.
And the keypad should work fine, assuming you entered
the right information in.
That's how to enable the receiver on a 6160RF keypad.
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