Hi all. I am hoping you can help. I have Centurylink DSL/VOIP service and ADT monitored alarm service. The alarm was already installed in the house from the previous owners, we just turned the service back on). We don't have a "standard" phone line, the alarm dials out via the VOIP line. I've recently installed a couple of IP cameras so we can monitor the house while we're out. They work great, except when the alarm gets tripped and calls out to the monitoring center. Our access to the cameras gets cut off and we can't check to see if it's just the cats tripping one of the "pet proof" motion sensors or some thugs ransacking our home. Kind of defeats the point of us having the cameras. We have to get the operator to cancel the alarm in order to get through to the cameras. I have one handset hooked up on a jack elsewhere in the house. I can access the cameras just fine while calling my cell phone from that line and there are no filters on it.
I'm pretty sure I just need a filter on the line hooked up to the alarm. Centurylink won't touch it and ADT wants a minimum of $150 for someone to come out and install a filter. I have a couple DSL filters from Centurylink laying around but our alarm console doesn't have an RJ-11 jack on it so I can't just plug one in and be done with it. There's just a bare 4 conductor cable coming in from the wall going to screw-down terminals inside the console. Can I just put an RJ-11 head on those leads, plug it into a filter and strip the leads off the filter and screw them into the terminals or is it more complicated than that? Is there is special filter that I can buy and install myself?
Thanks in advance!
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