I know this title is confusing. I work in the low voltage business and me and a colleague of mine are trying to come up with a way to make a 6160 keypad wireless to carry around big warehouses testing zones.

We work by ourselves in the field and locating/testing zones with a keypad that’s far away where you cant hear the chime is a lot of walking.

Basically what we were trying to do is we ordered these wireless transceivers that transmit/receive rs232/rs485. Both are transceivers.

So we would need to have one on the ECP bus @ the panel, hooked to the wireless transceiver, while we had another one mounted to like a 5 gallon bucket with a 12 volt 7ah battery with the 6160 keypad to roam about the building with a full functioning 6160 if we need to turn a zone off or go into programming or disarm system, etc.

I’ve found many people who have integrated their home automation systems onto the ECP bus but couldn’t find anything about if it would work for this application.

So basically it would be:

Alarm panel ECP -> wireless transmitter <—————-> wireless transmitter -> 6160

Any thoughts?

We purchased an older house that has mortised locks in the exterior doors. I really don’t want to replace the (original, solid oak) doors or go drilling a big new hole in it for a modern residential style deadbolt. So I’m looking for a digital/smart lock that will connect to a mortise lockset I could swap in there.

Nearly all mortise locksets have threaded cylindrical inserts for the key that controls the deadbolt. I thought ‘surely someone makes a digital lock that threads into that!’. But I just cannot find one. Anyone know of something I’ve missed?? Any other alternatives for digital/smart locks that would go in a mortise?