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the first thing they did before entering the house was to cut the power.


Good point !!! Add a UPS to my christmas list for next year

I have a BT Home Monitor, it does have a serial port on the back. I have a spare main unit if you fancy helping me hack it, you are welcome to it when we are done. I have no idea what it outputs, it may even be disabled. Basically it is a cut down Visonic unit, it will control X10 but this feature is disabled on the BT unit.

I knew running a CAT5 to my alarm panel was good idea

Cheers

Cris.