hey guys drew with geoarm and i am back to talk to you about wiring the alarm.com communicator
for your networks ge interlogix networks uh in x6 6v2 ap2 you know the network series so what
we're going to be discussing here is just getting this communicator actually wired in super easy to
do it's only going to be three wires that you're going to be wiring back to the panel itself it's
going to be a wire for positive power a wire for negative power and a wire for data and i'll also
be showing you how to install the internet dongle which if you do decide that you want to install
this you will need an ethernet connection it will not do wi-fi it's going to need this connection so
what we're going to do first here is we're going to go ahead and make sure that our security system
is powered down as you can see mine is definitely powered down it's not wired up for anything
but in your case you would unplug the backup battery and you would also unplug the power supply
once that's completed then you should be ready to uh go ahead and get this thing installed now the
three terminals that we're going to be working with are going to be aux plus or i'm sorry um
com pause and data which are all three in a row uh literally next to uh plus bell and minus so you'll
see pause com and data there's probably going to be other wires going into there that's okay
what we'll do is we'll wire the communicator after we've wired it to the panel so we'll just get this
thing wired to the panel first make sure your panel's powered down once again so we're going
to take our red wire here and our red wire is going to be going to pause because it is going to
represent the positive power now i'm not feeding this in through the back or through any punch outs
on this panel you guys are probably going to have to do that on your end um but uh that's that's
pretty easy to do as well obviously you just go through one of the holes in the back or the top
um now we're going to take our black wire and our black wire is going to be going to come
by the way you are going to need a strip of 18 to 22 gauge uh four conductor wire and um you'll need
to remove one of the uh the strands inside one of the conductors um and because you're only gonna
need three so in my case i've cut the the yellow one off and i only got the green one remaining
so now it's red to pause black to com and the green wire here which is going to represent
data and we're going to get that into data and then get that tightened down okay all right now
we'll go to the communicator which i've already pre-wired so this will just be me more so just
showing you the connections um to open this thing it's pretty pretty easy actually you just squeeze
this little different piece of plastic down here it's kind of perforated it's got ridges on it just
press that down and then you pull it away from the back like so super easy to do so we're going to
go ahead and put that cover to the side here now when we get in here you're going to see that the
wiring terminals are right here there's three of them they're going to be labeled pause common data
so as i said we took the red wire we wired that to pause in panel so it's wired to pause inside
of the communicator now the black wire is wired to com which is wired to com in the panel as well
and then finally the green wire is wired to data so data to data so our connections are made
between the panel and the communicator also uh we'll go we'll talk about the ethernet dongle uh
by the way if you are not connecting the ethernet dongle at this point you're ready to put the cover
back on you're ready to give us a call with the imei number which is located right underneath
where the antennas plug in here also it'll be on the the documentation of the box that it comes in
so if you do not uh want to install the ethernet dongle at this point you're ready to rock just put
the cover back on and give us a call for those of you that want to install the ethernet dongle i'll
continue here so it's going to literally slide into this little spot right here and it's actually
labeled ethernet as well so we're going to go ahead and get that in there make sure i have it
put in correctly here okay it's a little difficult to get it in you're going to have to you know kind
of use your nails or something to squeeze it in but once it goes in then you are ready to rock
so like so it's connected to its port now and this thing is actually ready uh for internet
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