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Mon Dec 10, 2018 5:55 pm
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lanbrown
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What an ordeal going with an NX-8E has been. The first order I placed, I never got shipping information, I called the company twice, left a message and even emailed. Never heard a thing, so I had to dispute the charge for the panel. I ordered from another company and received that panel a few weeks ago. I bought a spare adapter so I could perform some of the config before replacement. I would say that the NX-586E to connect to the panel makes things easier; it has three alligator clips; Pos, Com and Data. This allows the DLX900 (Windows) software to be used and the panel data can be read, written to, etc. Don't go with the NX-588E as that is the USB version but there are no new drivers to support current versions of Windows. Unless you really like programming through the keypad, I strongly suggest using the DLX900 software with the above mentioned adapter.
New panel was installed, all modules enrolled (NX-216E 16 zone expansion), NX-595E (Ethernet module) and the NX-584E (serial board). Enrollment is quick and easy with the software; you just tell it to enroll the modules. I could have used the onboard serial port, but you need a special cable and I already had the serial board, plus the serial board handles higher baud rates.
I also added a second cabinet which houses the serial port board, the Ethernet board and the serial-to-Ethernet adapter. The first cabinet has the battery, the panel, the wiring and the expansion module.
I still have to split the wiring out, so I'm still at 6 zones. I didn't have heat shrink tubing small enough for the wiring/resistor. Amazon will be delivering some tomorrow. I'll be using 21 of the 24 zones; so a big step up from just six zones. Right now the setup is a little ugly but will tidy it up when I split the wiring up. I'm also going to add a piece of conduit that goes between the cabinets.
Attached is what I have so far. Hopefully by the end of this coming weekend I'll have it all done and be able to test how the plugin works with 21 active zones.
I'm amazed at Caddx protocol in that it really takes very little bandwidth for the updates and the control. The original author of the plugin must have spent a lot of time going through the documentation to create it. In the past 24 hours 18KB of data has been received and 7KB transmitted. That is with a door being opened many times (dog likes to go in and out), a status update about every 15 minutes and the time and date being set.
Good job by Karl updating the plugin as well.
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