I have an existing home security installed in my current house with around 16 normally open (NO) sensor switches. These were hooked up to my Ademco Vista 10se panel. I bought an AD2USB which seems like the easiest solution to interface with Mi Casa Verde but this still only gives me my original 6 zones and not the full 12 that I have.
I love the Mi Casa Verde but was shocked that there was no general GPIO panel available. Seems Global Cache 100 is available with 12 inputs at $300 but I also need to buy 12x GC-SC1 contact closures which makes it quite bulky, costly and inconvenient.
Is there no better options?
I am an electrical engineer and can easily design a USB FTDI device with green euro plugs for say 24 inputs and 2 relay outputs (for garage door, and alarm siren). However the docs for programming the serial interface for mi casa verde seems kind of convoluted.
Would anyone like to pair up to do a USB GPIO breakout for Mi Casa Verde?
Shouldn’t the plugin allow you to see all zones? I know the DSC plugin allows you to see all of the zones and the same for the other alarm plugins.
I guess my beef is that AD2USB only sees the 6 zone limitation of my panel. I could buy a better panel but I can’t find any with a high number of GPIOs or am I missing something?
What do you actually need the GPIO’s for and do you just mean zone inputs?
I have 16 normally open sensors wired to the various doors and windows in the house. I want to know when each is open. With my Ademco unit I need to wire these in series. Instead I would like to know if sensor 1 tripped, sensor 2 tripped, etc for all 16 sensors. My understanding is Ademco units only have 6 on my 10se and 8 on the 20p. Are there any more advanced ones that are reasonably priced?
Not sure about the Ademco panels, but if its anything like the DSC panels, then you can buy zone expanders.
My DSC panel (1864) for instance supports up to 64 zones, however by default you can only initially wire up 8 individual ones (not serially), and then if you want more, you then add on a zone expander board onto its bus.
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So basically I would need to use 3 of these to use all 64 zones (presuming no wireless zones are to be used).
I’d be surprised if the Ademco panels didn’t have something similar!