Honeywell VISTA-20P Ademco Control Panel, PCB in Aluminum Enclosure

I highly recommend against this product. The customer support at honeywell will not help you at all unless you are one of their dealers. They market these as DIY, but if you have technical problems they want you to hire one of their dealers to troubleshoot the issue. They will not give you any technical information over the phone, even if you can prove that the system is yours.

Worked out well

Very recently priced. My original vista 15 died, it was an easy upgrade to the Vista 20. I used all my existing wiring and equipment.

Great Control panel.

This product line is well established and is intended to be installed by a trained pro. Having a 20 year old VISTA 10S system that wasnt upgradable for any reasonable amount, and wanting to add on the EyesOn IP module, I bought one of these units to do the upgrade myself. Caution: I have a masters in computers, communications, and IP security - so I felt confident I could work my way through the upgrade. Heres what I did: 1) I went to the keypad of the old system and read off every setting the old system had in it to guide me with the new system, and compared that to the old systems settings. 2) I took the programming sheet for the new system and filled in what I could for the old system to make sure the new one would report to my current low-cost monitoring company. 3) I reviewed about four installation videos on Youtube - which proved key to actually making the system work 4) I mounted the new system board just above the old one within reach of all the wires. 5) I called monitoring company and put the system in test mode. 6) I powered the old system down, removing the battery first 7) I transferred the wires one terminal at a time (the terminals on both were the same) 8) I removed the old board and put the new board in the old mounting 9) I powered up the new board, then went to a keypad and programmed it (this is the hard part) 10) tested the system ofline 11) tested the system online with the alarm company Everything worked, and steps 5-11 took about three hours. It looks like the old system, acts like the old system, but now I can buy the upgrade modules.

Home replacement system

This product has a HUGE learning curve which is probably on purpose. The manual is completely useless. I just Googled for how-to installations and eventually found someone who wrote a guide that made pretty good sense. I used an AD2PI from AlarmDecoder and that seems to work great! Next Ill be installing OpenHAB.

The metal can is cheap - metal too thin. It deforms and door wont stay closed. Previous purchase from years ago included stronger can

Latest model, very good service

Good alarm for the money easy to wire easy to install and you can ad just about any think to it. The first one I got it was hard to program but keep with it and now its a snap. For 47.00 how can you go wrong.