Honeywell VISTA-20P Ademco Control Panel, PCB in Aluminum Enclosure

If you are going to do a hardwire alarm set-up this is a good place to start. Mine works well and has no issues.

The items were as advertised. I would buy from this seller again.

Im a pro and Honeywell is incredibly easy to program after youve installed your first 20 or 30 systems. So novices beware and cram with YouTube videos to make progress. Someone said it was designed to be difficult to program but they dont realize it was NEVER intended to be a consumer installed product and frankly you can get robbed or lose your house to a fire just by making one of any number of tiny programming mistakes. It was not designed to be foolproof it was designed and slowly upgraded over many years for professionals (I didnt say rocket scientists-just pros). Some newer gen products are better suited to novice installers but Honeywell products are at least very reliable in my experience.

This is a great and widely popular panel from Honeywell. I didnt have any issues swapping it out for my old panel, and hooking up my zones and expansion modules was straight-forward. This little panel does everything youd need it to. It does come with the required EOL resistors and zone doubling resistors, as well as the AC transformer. It does NOT come with a battery (which is clearly stated and I didnt mark off for). The one issue I have, and the reason I marked it down one star, is that the communications interface with external communications devices is less than ideal. The panel reports zone faults in real-time, but does not report zones clearing in real-time. This means that if youre using an external communicator, like the Eyez-On Envisalink, youll get notices of faults relatively fast, but it can take up to a minute or two before youll get a notice that everything has cleared up. DSC panels dont have that issue, as they report much more information on their interfaces. It doesnt bother me that much, and its easy enough to work around, but if youre a perfectionist, it might annoy you a bit. If youre using only keypads and professional monitoring, however, youll never notice this slight annoyance at all. The bottom line is this panel was extremely easy to hook up, had no issues with installation or programming, and works perfectly for its intended purpose. I can certainly recommend Honeywell panels to others.

Technician says it’s the best!

In todays world of Alarms its kinda old school but it does exactly what it was intended to do. Not to mention low price and programmable with the 6160 keypad.

Used this for setting up my home alarm system with Honeywell and it has worked without any issues now for over a year

Works Great: Ive tested every zone with both resistors and actual sensors, have not experienced a problem. Very Sturdy: The delivery man dropped it HARD on the way to the door, still works good. Choose the 6160RF Keypad to program: Avoid any package deal that does not include the 6160RF keypad. Lots of feedback out there was that the 6160RF was a waste of money...but without a clear explanation of WHY & WHEN. Heres the thing: if you have only one keypad on your system, and you want some wireless capability, it is CHEAPEST to go with the 6160RF keypad. If you need two keypads, then choose the 6160RF and then a very cheap second keypad. Before you complain that the emphasis of this review is on the keypad instead of the alarm control panel...you cant do anything, test anything, wire anything, program anything, or use the control panel without a keypad to program it & test it. I initially bought the 6160 to program it, but then realized my mistake & ordered the 6160RF / returned the 6160. This control panel only has 8 ea. wired-zones, and the expert-consensus leans towards an expansion panel instead of Zone-Doubling. I havent expanded past 8-wired zones as of yet, except for experiments with wireless sensors via the 6160RF (just to confirm it works.)

Replaced my old panel myself. Works perfectly.

Install in all rentals as feature for tenants. The one piece of advice I’d give is to test it ASAP because I did have one board that had a bad sensor port. I had empty ports so it wasn’t a big deal, so I didn’t bother to exchange. There are great videos on line that show how to program. Setup isn’t as easy as ring or simpli but the end product is much much better and at a much lower cost.