| Posted: Saturday Dec 26th, 2015 06:37 pm |
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Pgordon
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I've been putting up with this for quite a while, but it is becoming a bit irritating now,
I seem to be having many reliability issues with my keypads...
I have 3 installed keypads, a KP06 and 2 KP04's
the KP06 is *still* losing the LCD display text on a regular and frequent basis. I am doing a keypad reset every hour (via the hourly response) and yet I still get occasions when the LCD is just blank because it has done this sometime between those resets
Now I am also noting with quite annoying frequency that all 3 of my keypads, at totally random intervals, and not necessarily at the same time as each other, will say:
"Wrong text, press * and 1 to update"
which I do, it downloads fine, and all is well..
...until the next keypad does the same, or the same keypad will do the exact same thing a few days later. With 3 keypads all doing this I'm having to deal with this issue on an almost daily basis.
What is going on??
TIA
Paul G.
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| Posted: Sunday Dec 27th, 2015 01:22 am |
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Vangelis
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Who installed your system?
Have you done any fault finding?
If you have frequent failures on the keypad and you don't mind some wiring, I would remove the wiring from the two furthest keypads (at the Comfort Panel) leaving just one allowing control. Check stability and re-introduce them if stable.
If you still have faults the remove all keypads and run a short piece of screened cat5 from the panel direct into the keypad and check stability. This will rule out wiring to the keypads along with interference being introduced on the cable runs (possibly corrupting the keypad bus)
This obviously needs to be done at a convenient time when you are able to have some 'security down time'
Edit: You will also need to tell Comfigurator that you are removing keypads by rescanning the keypads
VangelisLast edited on Sunday Dec 27th, 2015 01:23 am by Vangelis
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| Posted: Sunday Dec 27th, 2015 05:56 am |
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slychiu
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This is a mystery as we have not encountered multiple keypads requiring text update frequently. If you reset the keypads do they go to normal ?
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| Posted: Sunday Dec 27th, 2015 02:53 pm |
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Pgordon
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Various questions, not necessarily in order...
Yes, I believe that if I do a keypad reset, all is well, and the wrong text message disappears... This is based on the behaviour of the kp06, because as I said, I do a keypad reset on that one every hour because of the other longer standing problem of the lcd going blank...
I installed the system myself. It comprises 1 main panel and 2 SEP's.
I know the wiring to all the keypads therefore... :-)
The first one installed was the kp06, it is approx 3 metres from the main panel, but with the cable route going as it does, it's approx 5-6 metres of cable. This is high quality foil screened cable.
The 2 kp04's are connected off the 2 SEP's one kp per each SEP. I have 6 core cable between the panels connecting - as per the documentation, KA,KB,COM, (not 12v+, as that is generated locally) I also carry voice & mic between panels, so I can support keypads off any panel..
That uses 5 of the available 6 cores, so the 'spare' one I have used to double up the voice line to try to minimise loss of voice quality over the cable runs.
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| Posted: Sunday Dec 27th, 2015 03:39 pm |
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Isn't a 'wrong text' message associated with a vocabulary update or something? My first guess would be that the KP is not getting the right 'stuff' from Comfort. That said, it should probably only check the Comfort vocabulary on startup, or every time you reset the KP.
Here is my suggestion: Make sure you have the latest vocabulary files loaded and then do a v? to know what the reply is. Then when the KPs go out-of-whack, do the same and see if it's still the same.
This is all speculation so might not amount to anything except having the latest girly voice on your system :-)
Myma38 looks to be the latest. I would also run a Bus Monitor to see if something is happening to the KPs. Filter one KP ID and see if anything is logged when the trouble starts. You might also have a noisy KA/KB line somewhere, the Bus Monitor will show errors if that is the case.
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| Posted: Sunday Dec 27th, 2015 10:03 pm |
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| Posted: Monday Dec 28th, 2015 04:28 am |
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Although it maybe screened cable, if it does come into any contact with 230V (when I say conact I am refering to side by side or criss crossing) you maybe getting EMF fields corupting the signal......
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| Posted: Monday Dec 28th, 2015 08:04 am |
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Yes as Ingo said Bus monitor would be a good way to check the problem
You can filter the keypads 41, 42, 43 and 00 (broadcast)
If it happens every day it should not take long to capture
For KP04, automatic text download started from firmware version 1.019 ie it wil automatically get the text from Comfort without *1. For KP06, auto text download implemented from v6.004 onwards.
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