DSC alarm status/control

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I use homewave daily. it works great with lights, thermostat, locks, scenes.

The main missing thing for me now is the DSC alarm plugin. I use it to control scenes which arm/disarm the DSC, but it would be nice to see the status and directly control the alarm panel. Any possibility of adding this?

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Intrepid - just thinking - but as a workaround can you control the alarm panel via creating and running specific scenes?

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yes, that’s how i do it now. i have an ‘alarm’ tile in home wave with arm away, arm stay, disarm scenes. devices from the plugin (doors, windows) are also displayed properly. this works well. but what i cannot see is the current status of the panel, though. not a huge deal, but it would be nice. i have no idea how much involved to add this device status.

i currently just go to the envisalink shortcut through safari and it shows full status and lets me control it.

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I’m extremely new at this so I am probably wrong, but would it be possible to do the following? Create two scenes that are based on the status of the alarm. These scenes would then turn on or off 2 virtual devices; device 1 could be on for Armed-Away, device 2 could be on for Armed-Stay. Then you could use your software to see the status of the virtual devices.

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The Combination Switch should be able to do this. The only unknown is if HomeWave can display it.

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I’m planning to add native support for alarm panels… Was hoping to do it the upcoming release, but stuff got in the way and now I’m aiming to release the next version as soon as iPad control is stable (which it now appears to be)

For alarm panels, i’ll probably have to add a new type of control. The release after the upcoming one will focus on controls, and the way they are created from Vera data. That will include alarm panel support.

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thanks, that will be awesome.

i tried the combo switch, but homewave can’t seem to display it either. maybe something to consider also at some point.

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Can’t wait for the update with the Alarm panel. I have a map of my floor plan with the sensors placed on top, now I just need a way to control the alarm system.

Loving the app so far, I know you are still working on it so I’m hoping for more controls soon.

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Device types for the alarm partitions vary according to the manufacturer:

Caddx: urn:schemas-futzle-com:device:CaddxNX584Partition:2
DSC: urn:schemas-micasaverde-com:device:AlarmPartition:2
Elk M1: urn:schemas-micasaverde-com:device:ElkAlarmPartition:1
Paradox: urn:schemas-micasaverde-com:device:AlarmPartition:2
Visonic: urn:schemas-micasaverde-com:device:AlarmPartition:2
Vista (RS232): urn:schemas-micasaverde-com:device:AlarmPartition:2
Vista (AD2USB): urn:schemas-micasaverde-com:device:VistaAlarmPartition:2
Concord: urn:schemas-micasaverde-com:device:ConcordAlarmPartition:1
Scientech: urn:schemas-micasaverde-com:device:LS30AlarmPartition:1

All of these use the service Id urn:schemas-micasaverde-com:service:AlarmPartition:2 so they should all be able to be driven by the same code in HomeWave.

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Intrepid: the Virtual Switch plugin works perfectly (MiOS Apps). Like mentioned by others on this forum, create two scenes (Alarm is disarmed and Alarm is armed) triggered by Armed State of the panel. Then use HomeWave’s On/Off Switch to display the status. It’s not an ideal solution, but works quite well until the developer implements real-time status functionality.

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I use scenes to Arm/Disarm and use the Multi value Display to show the status. Works great, although it would be nice to have a pretty control.

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The upcoming version (submitted to the app store today) will support alarm sections / partitions, so you should be able to control your alarm directly.

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This guy made an easy solution at ..:: NTCOM-DSC http://www.juliano.com.br/dsc ::..

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Very happy with the app, thank you & keep up the good work :slight_smile:

One thing that I’m having troubles at this stage is disarming my DSC alarm system, it works great arming the partition but when I go to disarm nothing happens. I don’t get asked to enter the PIN to disarm. Do I need to enable any settings?

Thanks

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[quote=“triton07”]Very happy with the app, thank you & keep up the good work :slight_smile:

One thing that I’m having troubles at this stage is disarming my DSC alarm system, it works great arming the partition but when I go to disarm nothing happens. I don’t get asked to enter the PIN to disarm. Do I need to enable any settings?

Thanks[/quote]

See Additional Setup > disarm

code.mios.com/trac/mios_dscalarmpanel