I'm planning my security system for a new home to be built in the next year or so. I've already bought my panel (DSC 1864) and a few sensors to experiment with beforehand. I understand the logical circuit design of everything, including resistors, etc. I'm also comfortable roughing in all the wiring (my dad's an electrician and I worked with him growing up). What I don't understand completely, and can't find an answer to via extensive googling, is the final details of hooking up my sensors to the wiring after drywall/woodwork goes up. Basically, I'll have my pre-wire wire sticking out. How short do I cut it? Will I be able to cut it longer to have room to work, and then push excess back through the hole into the door frame or the wall for a window? I just seems like both doors and windows will have had expanding foam put around them for insulation purposes, so I won't be able to push/pull much on the wire. The contacts I've been playing with so far have terminals on them, instead of a wire lead, which seems like they might be difficult to work with if I have to cut the wire shorter. But other contacts have wire leads - where do you hide your splices onto that wire?

Hello alarm gurus, :coffee: I posted a similar inquiry back in 2014. We are moving into a new house, and I am installing our security system. It will be a VISTA 20P, and I am hoping to integrate a VIP module to have full system control from our house telephones. In addition, I would like to have the ability to call-in to my system and access the module, as stated in the manual. However, we are adopting the [I]Ooma Telo[/I] home internet telephone service to save money. I know how to distribute the dial tone throughout our house jacks, but I'll have to do it a little bit differently. I would have to have the output of the Ooma modem run into an RJ31X jack, and then out of the jack out to the rest of the house phones, with the RJ31X being wired to the panel and module, respectively. Of course, I would disconnect the [I]TIP[/I] and [I]RING[/I] coming from Verizon/Bell Atlantic outside the house in my NID [Network Interface Device] box. This is technically the way you would wire normal analog lines into your panel and voice module, with my way being the exception. So, my question is: would this hypothetically work? Has anyone gone through with this, even with other VoIP providers? It would technically be a normal Telco signal coming out of the Ooma, and in their manual, they say that you can distribute the signal out to all your other phone jacks, meaning it would also be outputting the proper sufficient voltage. It would essentially be a normal landline phone setup. Verizon just charges way too much anymore. Ooma is the way to go, and I would love to have the convenience of controlling the system from any touch-tone telephone in the world. The 428X phone/voice modules are highly underrated, in my opinion. Anyone, feel free to chime-in! Thanks, -Demetri P. :Phone: :Call Me: