"After much research I had decided on the Napco Gemini alarm
panel. Then I stumbled upon a new UK system called Comfort. Comfort
is an extremely competent security panel and can form the centre of
a Home Automation system. I contracted a local alarm company to do
the cabling work for the Comfort Alarm system. Comfort can do many
exciting things. For example, you can control appliances in your home
via phone from anywhere in the world!
In place of a doorbell,
Comfort's doorphone makes all the telephones in the house ring. Simply
answer the phone to talk to whoever's at your door. When the house
is unoccupied and the alarm is set, Comfort can call our mobile with
it's dialler and I can talk to whoever is at my door without them
even knowing that I'm not actually inside! If my mobile is off or
out of range, Comfort will even record a message from my visitor.
With it's 12V inputs and
outputs, using the home control menu, Comfort can interface to things
like electric garage doors, wireless transmitters etc, etc. I would
say one thing. If you're only going to put one element of HA into
your home then make it a Comfort Alarm!! "
Mark McCall. UKHA
N.Ireland
"I have installed my Comfort
alarm and it is superb. The only problem is that I have programmed
many responses to trigger X-10 commands but none of them seem to work.
I have a lot of X-10 kit and it all works fine around the house but
when I use the control menu in comfort nothing happens. Is there anyway
I can check that the X-10 interface is actually working. All I can
see on the interface is a red led that is on so it must have power.
Then after some help:
All sorted. I wiggled the lead at the comfort end and it all works
wonderfully now.
Thanks a bunch. M.C. UK.
"Hi, The new brass doorphone
with the camera looks really great - hopefully I will be in a position
to order it (and the CPU etc) next month or so. I can say that the
metal door phone is really worth the extra money.
and after he did ....
I have had no end
of comments about my Comfort security system - most people are fascinated
by the technology. Also, I think that both Comfort or Homevision
are really great and work very well together"
Regards C.D. UK
I'm having a blast so far with Comfort. I spent the first week just
re-doing my workshop so I can easily switch various devices from their
current connection to Comfort so I can test easier. I like all the
capability and the voice messaging, mail boxes and ability to call
my cell phone when the doorbell button is pushed. Having fun in Ohio
with Comfort.
Dan Hoehnen USA
Home
Automation Index
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"Hi,
A couple of things: Firstly, thanks for the advice about the selection
of the correct zone type (Normally Open or Normally Closed) for the PIR
with an X10 response - switching from zone type 8 to type 9 (N.C.), did
the trick and the response is now instantaneous, as one would expect.
Secondly, you'll be glad to hear that troubleshooting steps we discussed
to try to resolve my Keypad issue. as soon as I connected the new Keypad
in place of my original one, VIOLA! - complete success, totally stable
& reliable operation - signed in as 2 or 3 different users, recorded user
names & greeting message, and tested and checked answering machine function
- all 100% successful. Anyway, my system is now behaving perfectly, and
I am a very happy bunny! THANKS A MILLION for your help, it has been absolutely
invaluable, and I really appreciate it. :-)))
Kind regards. P.G. UK
(A very happy customer!)!"
"A quick note to say that the remote access via the telephone interface
to Comfort really proved its worth this weekend: The tamper cover on one
of the sensors worked loose triggering an alarm activation. This phoned
us up since we were away to report 'intruder alert'. This was a bit worrying
at first! However, because you can interrogate the system log over the
phone, I could tell that one sensor has reported a 'trouble' and none
had reported any 'movement', making it unlikely that anyone had actually
broken in. Over the phone, I could then stop the sirens, re-configure
the alarm to exclude the faulty zone, and re-arm the system, which put
my mind at rest enough to be able to continue enjoying our break away
from home. Without the log facilities or the ability to re-configure over
the phone (using no manuals), the alarm would either have severely annoyed
the neighbours, or forced us to cut short our break to put my paranoia
at ease... "
Ray.Barnett. UK.
Ray's Reviewed Comfort at UKHA
Site.
"A good job well done, well partly,
till the house is extended anyway. Stand back grin. Now tell the wife
to watch the light as I switch it ON and OFF with the telephone.
What have we got here... Another boy with toys, a comfort system installed,
well the security side anyway. I must add, the information in the manuals
and the support from Comfort has been excellent, it is easy to get lost
in the technology but from the simple to not so simple problems, my
questions were answered online. The only thing I need now is more money
for X-10 units and external pir's and cameras and .. and.... but back
to reality. The comfort system does exactly what it claims and is also
easy to operate. The CS-Xpress download software helps a lot when trying
a number of configurations. I was looking at a way to enter HA and now
believe I have a very good system which can be expanded upon. Finally
many thanks to Chiu from Cytech who phoned me from Singapore to test
a setup on my Comfort system. As I have said previously, the backup
which I and many others have received for their Comfort system is EXCEPTIONAL.
PS. It's great when travelling home, call up and put the central heating
on, welcome home to a lovely warm house. "
C.M. Scotland.
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