I am considering purchasing an interface panel to work with my old Ranger (Caddx) 8900 panel. My hesitation has been that my panel has no empty zones and the instructions for the interface require an empty zone to be programmed as a keyswitch in order to remotely arm/disarm.
But I noticed my panel has a pair of pins labeled “remote arm.” The instructions indicate that these pins can be used for wiring a literal keyswitch.
This should if you find instructions in Ranger (Caddx) 8900 panel manual. Konnected relay with send a pulse signal or on-off signal (keyswitch). If Ranger (Caddx) 8900 accepts that you should be good.
Zones also work the same way kind-of.
Thanks
Pretty rare to see a dedicated keyswitch or “remote arm” pins/terminals. Thanks for sharing that. It’s interesting that the instructions note “not necessary to waste a hardwire zone to accomodate Keyswithc arming/disarming”, that’s exactly it!
Any views on the note that said “by using the remote arming input on the PC board and the auxilliary outputs.” The manual identifies 4 pins that are aux outputs and these can be programed for various conditions, including “armed”. I assume I program a pin for armed and connect that to one side of the interface relay switch and then the other side of the interface relay swith to this remote arm pin which is an input per the note.
You should program one of the 4 auxiliary outputs to indicate armed/disarmed and another one to indicate triggered/not-triggered. These each should connect to zones on the interface module. In the Konnected app, under Alarm System Interface, indicate those zones as the Armed State and Triggered State inputs.
The remote arm pins on your panel, which is the keyswitch, should both be connected to the “RLY” terminals on the interface module (one pin to each).
