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It would seem Yale's new easyfit alarms in an attempt to solve problems have created others.
Yale are dropping the current 6000 range of 433Mhz alarms and are replacing them with the new EZfit range of alarms .
The Ez fit alarms are 866Mhz and are therefore in the licenced frequency. In addition rolling codes are used so essentially no more hypothetical worries about common household items like baby monitors etc causing problems.
Despite the name EZfit and Yales desire to make the alarms easy to fit there has been an alarming dumbing down of the installation procedure to meet the common denominator of hapless diy fail homeowners.
Ironically never before has it been necessary for someone experienced to install one of these alarms for others.
An old bugbear of the 6400 system (for Yale's technical team presumably) was the fact that devices learnt in initially did not have any attributes set.
Typically all devices would be defaulted to burglar or instant activation.
It was necessary to reprogram the entry devices as such as without doing so would mean the alarm would activate whenever you entered the property with no delay at the panel.
To fix this minor problem instead of adding a section to the manual instructing users to select their entry device and change it's attriutes they have instead DEFAULTED ALL ALREADY LEARNT IN SENSORS TO ENTRY!!
Where the 6000 system had no already learnt in sensors and all had to be programmed in during installation the EZfit has all sensors enrolled but as ENTRY DEVICES!! not only that but with a default 30 second delay.
I am absolutely gobsmacked and horrified.
The great thing about the 6000 series alarm was that when setting up you had all your sensors individually set so that you knew in the vunerable areas like a rear patio door or kitchen door or all the PIRs not in the entry zone would immediately activate the alarm.
Now homeowners will be blissfully unaware if they dont understand the significance that without actually reprogramming devices someone can break in to their patio door and leave before the alarm even sounds.
When lots of burglaries are to snatch car keys I cannot believe Yale have taken this path just to dumb down to the level of the least intelligent purchaser.
The only way a Yale system can be securely configured now is by someone with the experience to do it properly.
Good news for me I suppose but when Yale have switched to 866Mhz with rolling codes this to me is simply snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.
Yale are dropping the current 6000 range of 433Mhz alarms and are replacing them with the new EZfit range of alarms .
The Ez fit alarms are 866Mhz and are therefore in the licenced frequency. In addition rolling codes are used so essentially no more hypothetical worries about common household items like baby monitors etc causing problems.
Despite the name EZfit and Yales desire to make the alarms easy to fit there has been an alarming dumbing down of the installation procedure to meet the common denominator of hapless diy fail homeowners.
Ironically never before has it been necessary for someone experienced to install one of these alarms for others.
An old bugbear of the 6400 system (for Yale's technical team presumably) was the fact that devices learnt in initially did not have any attributes set.
Typically all devices would be defaulted to burglar or instant activation.
It was necessary to reprogram the entry devices as such as without doing so would mean the alarm would activate whenever you entered the property with no delay at the panel.
To fix this minor problem instead of adding a section to the manual instructing users to select their entry device and change it's attriutes they have instead DEFAULTED ALL ALREADY LEARNT IN SENSORS TO ENTRY!!
Where the 6000 system had no already learnt in sensors and all had to be programmed in during installation the EZfit has all sensors enrolled but as ENTRY DEVICES!! not only that but with a default 30 second delay.
I am absolutely gobsmacked and horrified.
The great thing about the 6000 series alarm was that when setting up you had all your sensors individually set so that you knew in the vunerable areas like a rear patio door or kitchen door or all the PIRs not in the entry zone would immediately activate the alarm.
Now homeowners will be blissfully unaware if they dont understand the significance that without actually reprogramming devices someone can break in to their patio door and leave before the alarm even sounds.
When lots of burglaries are to snatch car keys I cannot believe Yale have taken this path just to dumb down to the level of the least intelligent purchaser.
The only way a Yale system can be securely configured now is by someone with the experience to do it properly.
Good news for me I suppose but when Yale have switched to 866Mhz with rolling codes this to me is simply snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.
