Electronic Alarms and Home Security Devices - Ademco Vista 15p 5808 Smoke detector trouble

The panel only other field in programming other than zone programming that can affect wireless is *22 make sure you didn't accidently mess with that field while exiting program mode. There should be a 2 in there. Never was a fan of the keypads with the built in receivers. If you buy a receiver make sure its a 'M' receiver, unless you plan on upgrading your alarm in the future then get the 'H' receiver.



You could try defaulting the 6128RF keypad.

Power the keypad down then up.
Hold 1 and 3
00 -- should flash
press 9 then 1
Hit the * two times to make sure you are out of programming.


See if this solves the issue.

I am having a similar problem with my 5808w3s and vista 15p. May I ask what field 22 is? On my system it is the RF Jam Option, but there is no 2 option.

I may just have to buy a 5881 receiver and see what happens. It's just weird because the 5808's were already in the house and programmed into the panel when I moved in - just reporting trouble errors - but clearly labeled on the original installation paperwork from years ago. The 6128RF was also original and works fine with all the other 5800 devices throughout the house - I even added some new door sensors without incident. So at some point in the past the system must have worked with the 5808's. The new old stock 5808 I bought is identical to the old ones and still had the plastic 'pull to activate' tab between batteries, shrink wrap, etc. (I did put in brand new batteries though since I didn't figure 10 year old batteries would still be good for long even unused). So I do not doubt it was new and never used. Looking at the 5808 itself there doesn't appear to be any way to adjust anything. I did discover that on one of the old ones, if I remove the batteries, short across the metal terminal tabs for a few seconds, then put them back in that it will send its serial number during enrollment (the new one will not). However even after sending the enrollment serial number, once you exit the programming mode it will not trip the horns in the QED test mode nor disappear in sniffer mode so it's as if the panel just isn't programmed right to recognize them, or else the 6128 doesn't see them, or they aren't sending out their signals. There isn't a program *xx setting that would affect smoke detectors is there?

Thellmer, did you ever get your smokes to work correctly?

Yes. Oddly enough I bought 2 5804 RF Keyfobs and entered the programming mode on the RF-keypad to pair them, once I rebooted the system everything was fine and all the detectors are happy. So I'm thinking something must have been screwed up in the 6128 RF-Keypad and entering the programming mode for the other purpose straightened it all out once i exited. That's all I can think of but they were still beeping every day until I did that and now they all are recognized and in test mode send the correct signal.

Lets move this to a new thread. The Vista 15p is a radically different animal from the 10se.

*22 on the 15p only has 0 for jam detect off; and 1 for jam detect on. Turn it off. Most modern homes have a lot of electronic noise, and these detectors seem to be especially touchy about it.

Those wireless receiver keypads have a "high security mode". It's a dedicated jam/encryption setup that normal residential users don't really need.

Turn that off, it may help.