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🔌General Home Automation => Automating Your House => Troubleshooting Automation Problems => Topic started by: drdisney on April 04, 2010, 12:27:14 AM

Title: Looking to disable alarm in DS7000
Post by: drdisney on April 04, 2010, 12:27:14 AM
Does anybody know how to open up the case of the DS700, and disable the alarm. From what I can tell there are two screws, one near the 9V battery terminal, and the other is covered up by the sticker. I am needing to disable it due to the fact that I live in a condo and can't have the loud noise going off. What I am looking for the system to do is just call my cell, and then I log in from a remote terminal to view the cameras and see whats going on. Thanks in Advance !

Dr D
Title: Re: Looking to disable alarm in DS7000
Post by: STI2NR on April 04, 2010, 01:01:01 AM
Open up the unit and clip the wires going to the piezo speaker.

Does that work??
Title: Re: Looking to disable alarm in DS7000
Post by: drdisney on April 04, 2010, 07:10:32 PM
Open up the unit and clip the wires going to the piezo speaker.

Does that work??

Yea that would work. Is there any more hidden screws I am going to need to look for besides the two? I have yet to play around with it, so I didn't know what other ones are there.
Title: Re: Looking to disable alarm in DS7000
Post by: STI2NR on April 04, 2010, 08:04:46 PM
I have never opened one up.  I do have a knack for "visualizing" electronic components innards though.

;-)
Title: Re: Looking to disable alarm in DS7000
Post by: Tuicemen on April 05, 2010, 07:25:18 AM
There is another post concerning this mod.
A detailed search should turn it up and reveal answers to all your Questions.
Hint:  look in the device mod section I believe there are several DS7000 mods
There should be a screw under each of the rubber feet.
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Title: Re: Looking to disable alarm in DS7000
Post by: Brian H on April 05, 2010, 07:37:55 AM
I was curious to see if it had been done by someone already. Found one where a switch was used to pick on or off for the sounder.

http://forums.x10.com/index.php?PHPSESSID=c2f685gdndcgpc2vb34boourc4&topic=18204.0
Title: Re: Looking to disable alarm in DS7000
Post by: -Bill- (of wgjohns.com) on April 05, 2010, 10:13:05 PM
I was curious to see if it had been done by someone already. Found one where a switch was used to pick on or off for the sounder.

http://forums.x10.com/index.php?PHPSESSID=c2f685gdndcgpc2vb34boourc4&topic=18204.0

I thought I remembered reading something like that!

A helpful from me!   #:)

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