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💬General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: dsnevin on February 04, 2008, 12:14:44 PM

Title: Remote Placement Issue.
Post by: dsnevin on February 04, 2008, 12:14:44 PM

I want to install, in a lockbox that can be opened with a digital keypad combination, the Arm/Disarm remote control (with time delay), just inside the building entry door.
The x10 SH624 remote is too large to fit a standard key lockbox.  Suggestions, please, re where to find a larger lockbox; or, any ideas re installing the remote in a secure place/container just inside a building entry door.

A very nice X10 Company modification to the keypad remote would be the addition of a switch that would allow the keypad remote to function either with, or without, a time delay to arm/disarm the system console.  (The keypad remote would easily fit inside a standard key lockbox.)

Title: Re: Remote Placement Issue.
Post by: x10dude on March 22, 2009, 04:46:56 PM

I gave up on looking for a lockbox with a combination pad, so instead I chose a key-locked lockbox. When I first installed it, it worked well. however, in time (weeks), it stopped being picked up by the console.

In looking further into it, I discovered that the signal the remote sends is actually very weak and the lockbox itself shields the signal from leaving the inside of the lockbox. Since I actually mounted the remote inside the box, I can't physically take it out and point it towards the console.

The bottom line is that, if you end up putting the remote in a lockbox, watch out for the thickness and distance of the lockbox itself since you'd run into the same situation. Of course, if you get a box that's not think and it's not metal, then might as well not put the remote in a lockbox since it could easily be hijacked anyway.

BTW, my lockbox is a Honeywell "money/drawer box". I simply removed the cash/coin partitioner (only sits inside the lockbox.) It's small and the remote fits nicely into it w/out leaving too much open space (just a few inches on the sides of the remote.)

I hope this helps

Title: Re: Remote Placement Issue.
Post by: BVD on March 22, 2009, 06:35:45 PM

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Check out this site. If they don't have it you don't need it!

Till Later,
Bob

P.S. I like the Honeywell on the first page!