Networx nx-8v2

[bombo]

The home I live in has a GE Networx NX-8V2 system.
We do pay for monitoring, which in my opinion is a waste of money.
When ever an alarm is triggered it takes the monitoring company between 7-10 minutes to call.

I was wondering if anyone knows a way or addon to have this system text my cell when triggered.

 

[fenderman]

There are addons to that system that should allow email notification such as http://interlogix.com/resources/intrusion/011-3380_nx_590ne_ds.pdf
however I never tried it. You may be better of with another monitoring company such as alarmrelay.com which is cheap and really good. An alternative is to change the system out to a dsc or vista panel and use the envisalink 3 mentioned in the other thread....

 

[Kyle]

The home I live in has a GE Networx NX-8V2 system.
We do pay for monitoring, which in my opinion is a waste of money.
When ever an alarm is triggered it takes the monitoring company between 7-10 minutes to call.

I was wondering if anyone knows a way or addon to have this system text my cell when triggered.

Also, to add to what fenderman said, If you ever want to get into the home automation fun. Micasaverde has a Z-wave Vera 3 and I noticed they offer a plugin for some GE panels. http://forum.micasaverde.com/index.php?board=50.0 is the forum for the plugin.

 

[bombo]

Great. I will take a look into these. Thank you Gents.

Alarmrelay is cheap but do not think they monitor us Canucks.
I will do a search for someone that can monitor Canadians.

 

[Burbo]

That NX8 is an outstanding panel capable of more than you can possibly use. I use a slave communicator product from IPdatatel model CBAT. I do not know if they will work in Canada. However it can report alarm both over ethernet and Verizon CDMA. It has apple and android apps for alarm panel control control, arm/disarm, event reporting even programming capable. Check this out http://www.ipdatatel.com/cellularbat.php.

 

[fenderman]

That NX8 is an outstanding panel capable of more than you can possibly use. I use a slave communicator product from IPdatatel model CBAT. I do not know if they will work in Canada. However it can report alarm both over ethernet and Verizon CDMA. It has apple and android apps for alarm panel control control, arm/disarm, event reporting even programming capable. Check this out http://www.ipdatatel.com/cellularbat.php.

Cool thanks for the link