Re: Radionics D7212 logging

...and if you figure out what Radx stuff you may need please post back
here...I have a bunch of old NOS Radx stuff that my wife would love for me
to get rid of.



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**Crash Gordon**







"Xartle" <xartle@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> On Sep 1, 11:25 am, Jim <alarmi...@aol.com> wrote:
>> On Aug 30, 6:19 pm, Xartle <xar...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > Hi All,
>>
>> > I just bought a house and it came wired with a Radionics D7212. I've
>> > been doing some research on it and it sounds like I need a D9133
>> > serial interface module to talk rs232 to it. Is that true? Really,
>> > all I want to do is get log type information out of it and in to a
>> > computer. Is there any way to interface directly with the panel?
>>
>> > Thanks
>> > Seth
>>
>> I don't know much of anything about Radionics but if things hold true
>> to form...... if you don't have one of their exclusive programers, and
>> the dealers programing code, you can't do anything.
>>
>> Radionics was way ahead of it's time and was a popular product for
>> some time, a number of years ago. The bad thing about it was that the
>> whole idea behind the Radionics product line was exclusivity. Which
>> means that only the installing dealer or in some cases any (Radionics)
>> dealer could install and service their products. Radionics would not
>> help any dealer who did not install their products. It seemed to me
>> that mostly (but not all) dealers who thought they could "capture"
>> their customers with the exclusive dealer requirements, would use the
>> Radionics line. You are probably "captured" and if you don't know who
>> the original installer was, you're SOL. If you do know who he is, it's
>> not likely he'll give you access to the programing free of charge nor
>> will you have access to the dealer programer needed to make changes.
>> Besides, their panels are not very popular now days. They never did
>> much to upgrade their capability as the industry caught up and
>> surpassed them.
>
> Well, good info but obviously not what I was hoping to hear...  :)
> Looks like I'll either need to go with Logan's solution and buy extra
> hardware or pretty much just forget about it.  Would it make more
> sense to replace the whole thing a more friendly and modern panel that
> can use the same sensors since I'm looking at buying hardware anyway?
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