Moved into house with pre-existing system. Can’t find main "control" panel, looked everywhere. Driving me nuts. It’s a Ge NetworkX System, with 2 keypads near each door. Identified 5 sensors (zones?) so far but no control panel/power source.

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There’s a keypad near the front door which has a sensor on it to indicate if its open. There’s also a keypad near the side door, only enough I could not identify any door sensor. Rather a sensor on the window near to it. Both keypads appear to be NX-148E LCD keypads. I have only removed the back of one but it has three wires going to it. There is also a hallway motion sensor and two hard wired smoke detectors.

I don’t know that it’s actually set up to notify anyone or just make an alarm sound. I was told the code and it seems to work but I have immediately disabled it after enabling it because I don’t want to open that can of worms. I was able to turn on the “alert” setting or something like that where both keypads keep when the door, window, or motion sensor are set off.

There’s also a separate intercom system should have a power supply unit somewhere – but again for the life of me I cannot locate it. I have searched high and low. They have to be hidden or covered by drywall and paint? Only other possibility is behind the fridge (to the side actually). It’s at the end of the hallway wall (from one perspective) in that general area is the intercom, a 4 gang like switch for the kitchen, our breaker box (there is a break labeled alarm but that doesn’t help and I wont want to flip it for fear of setting it off). Also what looks to be the alarm (looks kind of old though or an old doorbell is on the wall up high too – it is not used by the intercom).

On that section of hallway wall, half of the opposite side has one of the alarm control panels. The second has the cavity that the fridge is in. I took some photos of the gap between fridge and wall but didn’t see anything; but who knows.

PS. I’m a renter, trying to taking advantage of existing systems/upgrade them with landlords permission as well as networking. He is clueless to any of this even though he was the one who had the house remodeled….So I can’t just start tearing out drywall but that doesn’t mean I can’t do anything; especially if its not something he ever needs to know because it won’t matter to him. Also well versed in electronics – know zero about the NEC or high wiring – high voltage or low.

Here’s some pics

.https://imgur.com/a/16WMAfN

Intercom is by comelit by the way.

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