Honeywell VISTA 15P, 20P Online Programming Guide with Attached Worksheets

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Data Field Programming Guide This is a living document based on Honeywell's Vista 15P, 20P Programming Guide. It is meant to be the programming guide in its entirety, but is a work in progress. We will be continually adding new segments, new videos, and more. Hopefully this guide makes everything a little bit easier for those looking at the document for the first time. Please let us know what we can do to improve it.

Recommendations for Proper Protection

The following recommendations for the location of fire and burglary detection devices help provide proper coverage for the protected premises.

Recommendations for Smoke and Heat Detectors

With regard to the number and placement of smoke/heat detectors, we subscribe to the recommendations contained in the National Fire Protection Association's (NFPA) Standard #72 noted below.Early warning fire detection is best achieved by the installation of fire detection equipment in all rooms and areas of the household as follows: For minimum protection a smoke detector should be installed outside of each separate sleeping area, and on each additional floor of a multi-floor family living unit, including basements. The installation of smoke detectors in kitchens, attics (finished or unfinished), or in garages is not normally recommended. For additional protection the NFPA recommends that you install heat or smoke detectors in the living room, dining room, bedroom(s), kitchen, hallway(s), attic, furnace room, utility and storage rooms, basements and attached garages. In addition, we recommend the following:

• Install a smoke detector inside every bedroom where a smoker sleeps.
• Install a smoke detector inside every bedroom where someone sleeps with the door partly or completely closed. Smoke could be blocked by the closed door. Also, an alarm in the hallway outside may not wake up the sleeper if the door is closed.
• Install a smoke detector inside bedrooms where electrical appliances (such as portable heaters, air conditioners or humidifiers) are used.
• Install a smoke detector at both ends of a hallway if the hallway is more than 40 feet (12 meters) long.
• Install smoke detectors in any room where an alarm control is located, or in any room where alarm control connections to an AC source or phone lines are made. If detectors are not so located, a fire within the room could prevent the control from reporting a fire or an intrusion.

This control complies with NFPA requirements for temporal pulse sounding of fire notification appliances.

Recommendations For Proper Intrusion Protection

For proper intrusion coverage, sensors should be located at every possible point of entry to a home or commercial premises. This would include any skylights that may be present, and the upper windows in a multi-level building. In addition, we recommend that radio backup be used in a security system so that alarm signals can still be sent to the alarm monitoring station in the event that the telephone lines are out of order (alarm signals are normally sent over the phone lines, if connected to an alarm monitoring station).

Contents

• Programming Mode Commands
  • AVS Quick Programming Guide
  • Special Programming Messages
• Data Field Programming Form
• Configurable Zone Types Worksheet
• *56 Zone Programming Menu Mode
• *58 Expert Zone Program Mode
• WIRELESS KEY PROGRAMMING TEMPLATES
• *57 FUNCTION KEY PROGRAMMING MENU MODE
• *79/*80 MENU MODE - OUTPUT DEVICE PROGRAMMING GENERAL INFORMATION
• *79 RELAY/POWERLINE CARRRIER DEVICE (X-10) PROGRAMMING MENU MODE
• *80 OUTPUT FUNCTION MENU MODE
• *81 ZONE LIST MENU MODE
• *82 ALPHA DESCRIPTOR MENU MODE
• ALPHA VOCABULARY LIST (For Entering Zone Descriptors)
• SETTING SCHEDULES
• AVS SYSTEM ENABLE and QUICK PROGRAMMING COMMANDS
• SETTING THE REAL-TIME CLOCK
• *29 COMMUNICATION DEVICE MENU MODE (Pass-Through Programming)
• UPLOADING/DOWNLOADING VIA the INTERNET
• ZONE TYPE DEFINITIONS
• REPORT CODE FORMATS
• SYSTEM SECURITY CODES
• KEYPAD FUNCTIONS
• VARIOUS SYSTEM TROUBLE DISPLAYS
• UL NOTICES
• SIA QUICK REFERENCE GUIDE
• ULC S304 REQUIREMENTS (for VISTA-15PCN and VISTA-20PCN)
• FCC STATEMENTS
• LIMITATIONS STATEMENT
• CONTACTING TECHNICAL SUPPORT
• WORKSHEET for *56 ZONE PROGRAMMING
• WORKSHEET for *57 FUNCTION KEY PROGRAMMING
• WORKSHEET for *79 OUTPUT RELAY/POWERLINE CARRIER DEVICE PROGRAMMING
• WORKSHEET for *81 ZONE LIST PROGRAMMING
• WORKSHEET for *80 OUTPUT FUNCTION PROGRAMMING
• WORKSHEET for SCHEDULES
• TABLE OF DEVICE ADDRESSES
• 5800 SERIES TRANSMITTER INPUT LOOP IDENTIFICATION

Programming Mode Commands

To enter programming mode (using an alpha keypad connected to the control):

• POWER UP, then press [*] and [#] at the same time, within 50 seconds of powering up (this method must be used if *98 was used to exit program mode). OR
• Enter Installer Code (Default: 4112) then 800

AVS Quick Programming Guide (for AAV sessions using the AVS system)

For controls with the following firmware revision levels, these commands automatically configure the control for AVS operation:

• VISTA-15P = version 6.0 or higher
• VISTA-20P = version 7.0 or higher

Programming Instructions

• installer code + [#] + [0] + 3. Enable AVS operation.
• installer code + [#] + [0] + 4. Enable AVS operation and enable panels sounds on the AVST speaker.
• installer code + [#] + [0] + 5. Remove all programming options set by [#] + [0] + 3 quick command.
• installer code + [#] + [0] + 6. Remove all programming options set by [#] + [0] + 4 quick command.

Refer to the AVS System Enable and Quick Programming Commands section for details on the specific options that are set with each command, depending on the control used. To select the AAV session communication path (phone line/communication device), see field ∗55 Dynamic Signaling Priority. To enable AAV operation, use ∗91 Options field (option 4).

Special Programming Messages

• OC = Open Circuit (no communication between Keypad and Control).
• EE or ENTRY ERROR = ERROR (invalid field number entered; re-enter valid field number).
• After powering up, AC, dI (disabled) or “Busy Standby vx.x (firmware revision) Dl will be displayed after approximately 4 seconds. This will revert to a “Ready” message in approximately 1 minute, which allows PIRS, etc. to stabilize. You can bypass this delay by pressing [#] + [0].
  NOTE for CANADIAN PANELS: Power up time is 2 minutes, and Contact ID report code 305 System Reset is sent if the [#] + [0]command is not performed before the 2 minutes expires.
• If E4 or E8 appears, more zones than the expansion units can handle have been programmed. The display will clear after you correct the programming

IMPORTANT: The Real-time clock must be set before the end of the installation. See procedure in the Setting the Real-Time Clock section of this manual.

*56 Zone Programming Menu Mode

(press *56 while in Program mode) Use the provided *56 Zone Programming Worksheet.

Zones and Partitions Each protection zone needs to be programmed with various attributes using *56 Zone Programming mode or *58 Expert Programming Mode. Using this mode, enter the zone number to be programmed and make appropriate entries at the prompts. Finally, Confirm the serial number of wireless transmitter zones. The VISTA-20P system can control two independent areas of protection (known as partitions) for use by independent users, if desired, by simply assigning zones to one or the other partition during zone programming. The VISTA-20P, by default, automatically distributes users between the two partitions. The master user can change the user number distributions. Zones can also be assigned to a common partition, which is an area shared by users of both partitions (such as a lobby in a building). This allows either partition to arm, while leaving the common partition disarmed for access into the other partition. The following describes the functioning of the VISTA-20P common partition:

• The common zone sounds and reports alarms only when both partitions are armed. If only one partition is armed, the system ignores faults on the common zone.
• Either partition may arm its system if the common zone is faulted, but once armed, the other partition will not be able to arm unless the common zone is first bypassed or the fault is corrected.
• Faults on the common zone are displayed on common zone keypads, and will also appear on another partition’s keypad when that partition is armed.
• Either partition can clear and restore the common zone after an alarm.

Alpha Descriptor Vocabulary List (For Entering Zone Descriptors)

*Note: Bulleted (•) words in boldface type are those that are also available for use by the 4286 Phone Module. If using a Phone module, and words other than these are selected for Alpha descriptors, the module will not provide annunciation of those words.
Italicized words followed by an asterisk indicates those words supported by the 6160V/6150V Voice Keypads.

UL NOTICES

1. Entry Delay No. 1 and No. 2 (fields ∗35, ∗36) cannot be greater than 30 seconds for UL Residential Burglar Alarm installations, and entry delay plus dial delay should not exceed 1 minute. For UL Commercial Burglar Alarm installations, total entry delay may not exceed 45 seconds.
2. For UL Commercial Burglar Alarm and UL Residential Burglar Alarm installations with line security, total exit delay time must not exceed 60 seconds.
3. The maximum number of reports per armed period (field ∗93) must be set to “0” (unlimited) for UL installations.
4. Periodic testing (see scheduling mode) must be at least every 24 hours.
5. Alarm Sounder plus Auxiliary Power currents must not exceed 600mA total for UL installations (Aux power 500mA max.).
6. All partitions must be owned and managed by the same person(s).
7. All partitions must be part of one building at one street address.
8. If used, the audible alarm device(s) must be placed where it/they can be heard by all partitions.
9. For UL commercial burglar alarm installations the control unit must be protected from unauthorized access. The tamper switchinstalled to protect the control unit enclosure door is suitable for this purpose.
10. Remote downloading without an alarm company technician on-site (unattended downloading) is not permissible for UL installations.
11. Auto-disarming is not a UL Listed feature.
12. As SIA limits for delay of alarm reporting and sounding can exceed UL limits for commercial and residential applications, the following UL requirements per UL681 are provided: The maximum time that a control unit shall be programmed to delay the transmission of a signal to a remote monitoring location, or to delay the energizing of a local alarm sounding device to permit the alarm system user to enter and disarm the system, or to arm the system and exit shall not exceed:
    1. 60 seconds for a system with standard line security or encrypted line security,
    2. 120 seconds for a system without standard line security or encrypted line security, or
    3. 120 seconds for a system that does not transmit an alarm signal to a remote monitoring location.
13. This control is not intended for bank safe and vault applications.

SIA Quick Reference Guide

1. *31 Single Alarm Sounding per Zone: If “0” selected, “alarm sounding per zone” will be the same as the “number of reports in armed period” set in field ∗93 (1 if one report, 2 if 2 reports, unlimited for zones in zone list 7).
2. *34 Exit Delay. Minimum exit delay is 45 seconds.
3. *35/*36 Entry Delay 1 and 2. Minimum entry delay is 30 seconds.
4. *37 Audible Exit Warning: Feature always enabled; field does not exist.
5. *39 Power Up in Previous State: Must be “1,” power up in previous state.
6. *40 PABX Access Code or Call Waiting Disable: If call waiting is used, call waiting disable option in field *91 must be set.
7. *50 Burglary Dial Delay: Delay must be minimum of 30 seconds.
8. *59 Exit Error Alarm Report Code: Always enabled. 9 ∗68 Cancel Report Code: Default is “code enabled.”
9. *68 Cancel Report Code: Default is "code enabled."
10. *69 Recent Closing Report Code: Always enabled.
11. *91 Option Selection: Exit Delay option should be enabled. If call waiting is used, Call Waiting Disable must be set to “1” (enabled).
12. *93 No. reports in Armed Period: Must be set for 1 or 2 report pairs.
13. Cross zone timer programming is set in field ∗85; cross zone pairs are assigned in zone list 4 using ∗81 Zone List mode.
14. Duress code is assigned by using the “add a user code” procedure found in the User Guide. Enable Duress code reporting by programming zone 92 using ∗56 Zone Programming mode.
15. Fire alarm verification is a built-in system feature when a zone is programmed for zone type 16.

ULC S304 REQUIREMENTS (for VISTA-15PCN and VISTA-20PCN)

Refer to the following notes for systems intended for Low Risk Level (low extent of protection) and Medium Risk Level (medium extent of protection) installations.

Low Risk Level

If the panel is used for Low Risk Level installations, the system msut include the following:

• Subscriber control unit may use one telephone number, but it msut be programmed that
  1. it transmits over the single channel to the receiver once every 24 hour;
  2. it detects a loss of communication and initiates the local trouble signal within 180 seconds;
  3. in event of failure in the communication channel, all alarm and trouble signals must be annunciated locally.
• Protection circuit conductors shall form one fully supervised circuit so arranged that an alarm signal will be initiated at the central station from teh effect of loss data, an open circuit or other change in normal status.
• Trouble response time must be in compliance with CAN/ULC-S301, Central and Monitoring Station Burglar Alarm Systems

Medium Risk Level

If the panel is used for Medium Risk Level installations, the system must include the following:

• Subscriber control unit may use at least two communication levels, one being the telephone number and the other being a radio frequency communication channel - the GSM communicator may be used. The Subscriber control unit must be programmed that
  1. it transmits over the both channels to the receiver once every 24 hours;
  2. failure of communication of either channel is reported to the Central Station on the other channel within 240 sec;
  3. the first attempt to send a status change signal shall utilize the Telephone line. Where it is known to have failed, transmission attempts over the alternate communication channel shall occur.
• Protection circuit conductors shall form double fully supervised circuits so arranged that an alarm signal will be initiated at the central station from the effect of loss data, an open circuit or other change in normal status.
• Trouble response time must be in compliance with CAM/ULC-S301, Central and Monitoring Station Burglar Alarm Systems

Perimeter, Space, Safe, and Vaults Protection

Protection for perimeter, space, safe, and vaults need to be provided during the installation.

• For the Low Risk Security Level - Accessible openings should be contacted whether fixed or moveable;
• For the Medium Risk Security Level - All moveable and fixed accessible openings should be contacted.

5800 Series Transmitter Input Loop Identification

All of the transmitters illustrated have one or more unique factory assigned input (loop) ID numbers. Each of the inputs requires its own programming zone (e.g., a 5804's four inputs require four programming zones). For information on any transmitter not shown, refer to the instructions accompanying that transmitter for details regarding loop numbers, etc.

UL NOTE: The following transmitters are not intended for use in UL installations:

• 5802MN
• 5802MN2
• 5804
• 5804BD
• 5814
• 5816TEMP
• 5819
• 5819WHS & BRS
• 5850.

The 5827BD and 5800TM can be used in UL Listed Residential Burglar installations.