Honeywell 6160RF Custom Alpha Integrated Keyboard/Transeiver

The RF on my old one died after 18 years. This replacement went in in five minutes. Just pop the cover, and switch over 4 wires. No reprogramming needed. The one bad thing is that is makes a strange chirping noise with every beep the panel makes. It sounds like a cricket. I find it somewhat annoying, but it does not effect the operation.

Works exceptionally well has Built in booster

Perfect … great price & works well.

Some keys of my alarm keypad are not responsive after 20+ years' usage. So, I replace it with a new Honeywell 6160RF keypad with wireless receiving capability. This keypad is fully compatible with my Honeywell V20P alarm panel. I purchase the 6160RF keypad from Amazon because my alarm company is selling the very same thing with 2X the price. Per my alarm company's feedback, they charge some premium as they provide warranty and offer free replacement if the keypad fails down the road. Quite a premium charge for the warranty.This keypad has wireless receiving capability. I can now take advantage of Honeywell 5834-4 four-button wireless remote key to arm/disarm my home alarm system....just like arming/disarming my car with the remote key. Also, I can easily add additional wireless sensors without the hassles to run physical lines to wire up sensors to the alarm panel.My alarm panel is Honeywell V20P. There are quite some Youtube vidoes teaching people how to change the address in the keypad from the default setting of 31 to 16. To my surprise, the address of the 6160RF keypad is already at the correct value of 16 the first time I connect it to my alarm panel. So, I don't need to do anything and it just works.Youtube videos also teach people how to change the display message to take advantage of 6160RF's alphabetic display capability to provide easy-to-understand information. Luckily, my alarm monitor company is able to login to my alarm panel through the cellular communication line and do that. After that display configuration is done, the 6160RF panel display shows "FRONT DOOR OPEN", "KITCHEN DOOR OPEN", "MOTION DETECT"...kind of information.All in all, I am satisfied with this 6160RF keypad panel.

I had a 6150RF in the master bedroom and a regular 6150 at the garage door entry. These were hard to program because your basically programming a blank screen plus the chimes were annoyingly loud on the 6150's even though I tried to cover speaker with paper towel and tape. The 6160's I purchased are really easy to address and makes it easy to program the system because with the alpa you can see what it's asking for. The chimes are more soothing also. The LED screen is larger and more easy to see. I still covered the speaker hole on 6160's with paper towel to quiet it down a little more. I folded a piece of paper towel into 4 layers thick. Pressed it down around the opening to get an impression of the circle and cut with scissors so it would fit the hole and put the speaker back in over it. Much better now even though it wasn't to bad to begin with. See my photo. It was a great upgrade for a not to bad price. I highly recommend an upgrade if you have the 6150's. You won't regret it.

Please do not continue to show a new red box in your ad, then ship this in a mangled plain white Honeywell/Ademco box. Right away, it sends the message that people are not getting what they thought they purchased! The first items sent to me was obviously used--not a doubt in my mind. A newer better one was immediately sent to me upon my return of the first. I tried for hours and looked at many videos but could not get this 6160RF to work (I tried location 16 and 31). I started over three times and followed the directions meticulously. I installed two 6160s (non-wireless) a couple of years ago, and all I had to do was connect the wires...5 minutes each swap. It looked like the 6160RF was going to work on my 10SE but then it would just go dead (panel worked, keys/sound wouldn't work). I am not sure why that was, and I was sure to check connections and programming closely. As a result, I ended up ordering a 5881ENL and it connected right up and started working immediately. Maybe it was something I did with the 6160RF or the version of the board I have, but I even went as far as to check some of the older chat boards to see what others have done in the past. I ran across another 10SE owner who could not get these running on his system either, so he upgraded to a Vista 20P panel, and the 6160RF worked immediately. I guess I did not want to go through all of that for a wireless keypad, so I settled on the 5881ENL...older tech, cheaper, but it worked right away and only takes a few minutes to add additional devices!

This unit replaced a 6150 RF (non-alpha) Keypad. It uses the same mounting hole locations, so you just have to unscrew the old panel, and screw this one in. No re-drilling of holes needed.Its the same 4-wire installation, just connect the RBYG wires from the old panel to this new one. I believe the default keypad location for a Vista 15p is 16. To set the location for the new pad, hold down 1 and 3 (after connecting the wires). It will ask you the keypad location. Type "16" for the default keypad location.Also the display can be misinterpreted easily if you turn on your zone chime. When the system is not-armed it will display "Disabled" and if the door/window chime is on, it will display "Chime". If you look at the keypad it will say "Disabled Chime" - This just means the system is off, but the Chime is On! They need a comma between the two! Anyway once I got past repeatedly turning off the chime due to my misinterpretation of the keypad, I was all set.

The installation is easy but the programming is difficult. I would strongly recommend to watch videos on YouTube. It will save time and effort.