Texecom Com. Wi. Fi Module Review. Texecom have recently made the Remote Keypad App for the Premier Elite control panels free. There is also a paid Engineer version available. The apps are available for i. OS and android devices. The latest apps can have up to four IP cameras connected and can send e mails and push notifications to mobile devices. To get the apps, search for Texecom in the Android Play store or the i. OS App Store.   The App has installation instructions for connecting the IP modules and on using the App. The apps communicate with the control panel via either the Com IP module or the Com. Wi. Fi module.   The Com IP module connects to the router via an Ethernet cable CAT5 whereas the Com. Wi. Fi unit connects using Wi. Fi. It is also worth noting that the Com. Wi. Fi and the Com IP can also be used to connect the Wintex software running on a PC. We did find though that we could connect either to the app or the Wintex but not both at the same time. But thats not a big problem as long as you remember to disconnect from one before trying to connect to the other. About the Com. Wi. Fi Module. Texecom recently launched The Com. Wi. Fi module.   The Com. Wi. Fi is only compatible with Premier Elite Control Panels. The module is surprisingly reasonably priced around 5. CEK 0. 00. 1 for polycarbonate control panels and the CEK 0. The slightly dearer CEK 0. The CEK 0. 00. 2 can be also be used in polycarbonate panels and the antenna left inside the panel. The CEK 0. The module is supplied with a paper version of the installation manual. The manual can also be be found in the App or can be downloaded from the product page on our website. Both units are supplied with a cable to connect the Com. Wi. Fi to one of the Com port connectors on the panel PCB. The cable is quite short so a bit of pre planning on where to position the module is needed, especially in metal panels as the antenna connection is also quite short. The module is fixed in its final position by four sticky feet mounting pillars supplied. Physical Installation. In our test rig we used a polycarbonate Premier elite 2. CEK 0. 00. 2.   We used the Virgin Super Hub router. The distance from the panel to router was around two metres. Motor Control VENZ MOTOR. Aritech_CD15002S3_INST_FR.gif' alt='Aritech Installation Guide' title='Aritech Installation Guide' />The physical installation was relatively simple we simply connected the com lead into the Com. Wi. Fi and com. 1 on the panel. The first thing we noticed was the brightness of the LEDs on the Com. Wi. Fi. We could probably have seen them from several miles away. It is then a matter of finding a suitable place in the panel to mount the unit using the supplied sticky feet. We attached the antenna and just laid it loosely in the panel without it touching the PCB. Aritech Installation Guide' title='Aritech Installation Guide' />Configuration. Configuring the Com. Wi. Fi is a bit tortuous but the supplied installation instructions are comprehensive and the setup went reasonably smoothly apart from falling foul of Texecoms counter intuitive menu system  there are times when you feel that you should enter yes when you really need to enter no. The initial setup of the Com. Wi. Fi has to be done using a Wi Fi enabled computer, tablet or mobile device and sets up a wireless Com Wi. Fi network.   This then lets you access the Com. Wi. Fi from a browser. You are advised to change the user name and password. Caution  Use only alphanumeric characters for the password  if you use special characters in the Password you will be locked out of the module and you cant get back in. You must remember the new user name and password. You can change the user name and password later if you wish. On our initial setup the signal strength showed as 6. Notifier 5000 Fire Alarm System Manual Featured www. Notifier System 5000 Alarm Manual Find, download and program your existing Notifier System 5000. We tried the setup at about 1. At the 3. 0 strength we suffered no dropout or significant lag. Local and Remote Access. NB  The IP addresses used in this article are typical to our setup. The IP addresses need to be changed to suit your own particular network. The next step requires access to the router and some knowledge of IP addressing to assign an IP address to the Com. Wi. Fi.   We used the manual method to assign an IP address and at the same time we set up the port forwarding. If you are lucky enough to have a Virgin as your ISP you will find that the external dynamic IP address rarely changes ours has only changed twice in 3 years then you probably dont need to get a fixed IP address or use a DDNS service. On other ISPs the external dynamic IP address will probably change regularly and you should get a fixed IP address or use a DDNS service. We then set up the Premier elite control panel following the instructions in the installation manual and somewhat surprisingly we could connect to the panel using the app over the LAN using the internal IP address. Because we had already set up port forwarding we could also connect over the WAN using our routers external IP address. Connection over the WAN was slightly slower as expected but we saw no dropout and the App behaved well. Wintex Access. We then set up access to the Wintex software which really was very easy. Just remember that you cannot have the app connected and Wintex connected at the same time. Fabri Fibra Guerra E Pace Mega Man on this page. Push Notifications. Setting up the Push Notifications also went smoothly. You need to create an account with Texecom so that you can access their servers. Once you have the account it is simply a case of choosing the protocol we used Contact ID, inputting the Texecom server IPPort no. ARC primary and secondary telephone number, entering the account no, choosing the report options listed in the panels Quick Reference Guide, and setting Connect via IP to ON. For the Push Notifications to work correctly polling has to be set up. Again the instructions worked fine, and a test call was successful. Camera Connection. Unfortunately, the installation instructions that came with our test unit did not have instructions for connecting cameras. Hopefully, the instructions should be updated soon. We successfully added an IP camera, but we had to contact Texecom by email at appstexe. The response to our email was fast and the support was really very good. The IP camera we eventually connected was a Hikvision model no DS 2. CD2. 03. 2 I bullet camera. This is how we did it. Connect the camera to port on the router via a network cable. Apply power to the camera. Insert the CD supplied with the camera and navigate to the i. VMS 4. 20. 0 program and run it. Go to Device Management, click Group then Add Group and name the group. Click Server and at the bottom of the screen select the camera and click Add and give it a nickname. Click Add to add it to the group. Click Group and then click the group you added the camera to. The camera should now appear in the right hand pane. Click on the Remote Config button and then Network in the left hand pane. Change the http port to 8. Click ApplyCheck that the camera can now be accessed locally by typing 1. Hikvision login page. You should be able to view the camera in live view. In the App we enabled the cameras and then added the details for Camera 1. Including the user name and password. Tagamet Prostate Cancer. At this point we had to contact Texecom to get the correct command for the Hikvision camera. For the Hikvision IP camera Texecom gave us http IPADDRESS 8. Streamingchannels1pictureShot. Image. TypeJPEG video. Resolution. Width1. Resolution. Height7. IPADDRESS is the internal IP address of the camera. You should now be able to see the camera in the App. NB  We subsequently found the commands for 1.