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

This product has a HUGE learning curve which is probably on purpose. The manual is completely useless. I just Googled for how-to installations and eventually found someone who wrote a guide that made pretty good sense. I used an AD2PI from AlarmDecoder and that seems to work great! Next Ill be installing OpenHAB.

Ordered as replacement for 16 y.o. ADT Safewatch Pro 2000 (rebrand of Ademco Vista 20SE). Straightforward replacement, with existing hardware leads easily matching up to same terminals. Honeywell programming and user interface are something only a mother could love. Given this is 21st century, would be nice if board had USB or wifi interface and programmability via browser, but most of these boards are sold to pros whose main value proposition is tied up in hiding the ball. Hey, Im happy to pay for quality work but original ADT install was slopped together so badly that it led to years of headaches. Enough! I am now definitively cleaning up the mess myself. Thank you Honeywell for giving DIY option so I can avoid pro turn & burn slop-meisters. But I digress. Board is very well supported, which, along with its good price, is its main selling point. As mentioned by others, head to YouTube for excellent tutorials. Looking forward to adding RF keypad and keychain FOB, and 3rd party IP board.

Everything worked and programmed easily. Will buy again.

Working fine

Great deal. For those who dont know this is 1st class professional equipment

This unit was 1/4 the cost of the replacement my professional installer quoted for the part. This was so cheap I had doubts that it was legitimate. Well, I received the enclosure, lock, 20p card, and power supply. I wired everything up, had the installer reprogram the new card, and was back in business. No issues, and I saved hundreds by doing part of the work myself. There is no known way to transfer the programming from a bad board to a new one, so be prepared to have the system reprogrammed.

Honeywell alarm panel. Extremely versatile! Can be fitted with 5881enh wireless receiver to make a wireless alarm system as well as wired. Can be used with a variety of control pads. Includes a telephone interface to call for help. 100% professional. Not really intended for a casual do-it-yourselfer. If you understand alarm system technology and can run the wires, or mount the wireless sensors you can use this. With any alarm system youll want to have it monitored. Alarm Relay in El Segundo will monitor the panel and help you program it - but you must know the basics. You will need to have it working before they do the final programming.

Exact replacement for a unit damaged by power surge.

All worked ok, Im satisfied with the system. It was no an easy project, took a few hours to figure out all the programming needed.

High quality. Very cheap for what you get. Works great. Thank you Honeywell!