One notable message is the bilingual ES/EN message:
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I think that message is a custom one, I do not recall hearing that in any EVAX system, or even in my messages collection.
I know there was a Notifier VRAM message chip with that same script but it sounds like the same voice actor from VROM-122 just not depressed:
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Welp I think that solves the whoop tone mystery. I think that belongs to an EST IRC-3.
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Actually, that script is EST, not the GE-ANS one.
GE ANS:
- โAttention, Attention! An emergency has been reported in this building. Please stop operations and leave the building immediately. Use the nearest exit, or fire exit stairway. Do not use the elevators, repeat, do not use the elevators.โ
EST Guy:
- โAttention, Attention! An emergency has been reported in this building. Please cease operations and leave the building, utilizing the nearest exit, or fire exit stairway. Do not use elevators, repeat, do not use elevators.โ
My guess is Notifier Used the same EST script and had someone use it in a voice recording. Unfortunately since a lot of Factory made Notifier VRAMs were burned, hopes of finding a VRAM with that same message are dead completely.
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Not necessarily, It sounds like a Notifier AMG with a custom VRAM message recorded with that exact EST script. However the original poster of the video never gave a location of the building due to privacy reasons so the whole system is an unsolved mystery. Donโt know if itโs an AFP-400,1010, System 5000, AFC-600,NFS-640 or AM-2020. All I know is it had an Audio Message Generator.
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Not necessarily: you never know what you might find if you look for it! (also, by โburnedโ do you mean likely destroyed &/or in landfills, or โburned overโ with another message?)
Like burned in a factory dumpster I think. Notifier had like 1000s of those VRAM messages and when they discontinued them I think they just burned all of them.
Ah okay. Well, like I said, you never know though: there may still be some out there (in the form of VRAM chips that have those messages on them).
Thatโs just a waste on their part, just like EVAX did when the worker told me that they deleted some of their master recordings years ago.
Yeah, no idea what they were thinking by doing that: would it have killed them if they had simply just left them in place, even if they were no longer being used?
I know. They burn all of those when they could find someone in the fire alarm community that would get them all.
I think they just did that because Notifier migrated to the DVC around 2008 and they wouldnโt work with the DVC. It would probably be useless having VRAM chips that nolonger can be produced for a AMG that is nolonger in production.
That may be the case but I doubt it would have affected the storage on their hard drives by any notable amount if they had just left them there anyway (I was referring to EVAX supposedly deleting the master recordings of their tones & messages by the way: sorta a shame about the VRAM chips too though).
Wouldnโt notifier be considered lenient because they allow DVC messages & tones to be on Firealarmcollector?
Maybe, but then again they may not even know theyโre there to begin with (or that if they do they just donโt care).
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I can handle your opinion, but I highly doubt that Honeywell is even aware of that โNotifierโ directoryโs existence on firealarmcollector, Destin said in 2018 that those files arenโt likely to receive cease and desist orders, so thatโs why he released them.
(OLD) SEPTEMBER 2025:
Regarding copyright matters, I have decided that Iโm not going to share or release the EVAX audio files I obtained from the worker in May and July for either until Potter stops using them (they delete their current master recordings someday), or worst case scenario, neverโฆ
I have learned in August 2025, they have changed their policies, where you will now have to contact a Potter distributor (or work at one, such as ADI Global) to place an order (price is determined by customer service), and you will be charged a fee for the requested messages, so these files are longer free to obtain for the general public.
Not sure that very first thing was necessary to say (or maybe that there might have been a better way of phrasing it, I donโt know), but alright (that was more of a โtheory &/or guessโ than anything).
Oh: didnโt know that I think. Good thing he did that though given his website eventually stopped working! (though even now you can still access the files if you have the path to them (though maybe you wouldnโt be able to if that account system was still in place)
Alright. At least you have your own copy of them so that we can ensure theyโre hopefully never lost unlike others!
You donโt suppose they did that in response to your request do you? (youโre also missing a โnoโ in that sentence by the way)
Sorta-speaking of those last two things, I sent an email to Edwards Signaling about the ANSโs tones & messages some time back, but so far no reply for whatever reason (how rude honestly, just like how Edwards never returned an email I sent about that one sales conference theme of theirs).
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Iโm sorry if that made no sense, I just wanted to bring up an important point regarding the new policy with the EVAX files.
After the policy, Potter likely only wants the professional world having access to proprietary EVAX voice messages, since they now cost money, they are even more confidential than they were before.
I do not want Potter to start acting like they are Nintendo simply because of me giving away even a single file they sent before the policy, so I am keeping them safe until things change in the future, likely a few years from now.
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