DSC Communications Error

These irritating people are making me wait a whole week now to replace my radio. Like we’ll just hope no one breaks in…4th radio now..
 
w1tw0lf said:
How is it going with the esp32 ?
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@w1tw0lf Can you post a pic of your circuit you made? Just wanna see how people are soldering the wires to resistors, and the bridged resistors etc?

New radio is in, so ready to go with the Homekit :)
 
neoprema said:
@w1tw0lf Can you post a pic of your circuit you made? Just wanna see how people are soldering the wires to resistors, and the bridged resistors etc?

New radio is in, so ready to go with the Homekit :)
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Mine is not the best looking, still need to do some clean install at some point. Was "hacked" together and just left as is.
 
neoprema said:
@w1tw0lf Can you post a pic of your circuit you made? Just wanna see how people are soldering the wires to resistors, and the bridged resistors etc?

New radio is in, so ready to go with the Homekit :)
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Just do the circuit on a mini breadboard to test. If you look at the online files there is a circuit board you can print out and make.
 
krieg said:
Just do the circuit on a mini breadboard to test. If you look at the online files there is a circuit board you can print out and make.
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Under correction, some of us did look into printing the circuit board was just to expensive.
 
Okay so its done and connected. Took a while to type up all my zones.

I bought a serial plug and soldered it together so that i can just plug it into the cable the Olarm was using (so its got the male ends like the olarm does)

Its working 100% so far. Added a Homekit accessory, said i don't have anything to scan so it searched the network and found it. Only thing i didn't understand is Siri would not disarm without my phone, till I realized its probably for security lol. She will only disarm if i ask from a device I can be authenticated on by faceid or touch. The Homepods can do everything except disarm.
 
w1tw0lf said:
Mine is not the best looking, still need to do some clean install at some point. Was "hacked" together and just left as is.
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How are you viewing triggered zones? In particular history? HomeKit is not showing me why an alarm went off, or i'm looking in the wrong place? (after being disarmed)
 
Not sure how you will see which zone triggered on homekit, haven't used it before. In home assistant I have an automation running that monitors when the alarm goes into triggred state and then looks at the zone status which to see which one triggered the alarm and the sends me a message with which zone triggered.
 
So, my ESP32 HomeKit integration to DSC worked flawlessly. Until yesterday :(

My panel showed a comms problem, and I went to investigate and smelled something odd by the ESC32. The red-flight was flickering lightly like not enough power and then i touched the LM2596 voltage regulator and burnt my finger - it was so hot the plastic on it was melting.

So i pulled the power out of it and left it. Don't know what happened but looks like the LM2596 cooked...

Pity no one has built this thing retail with proper boards and soldered parts etc.
 
neoprema said:
So, my ESP32 HomeKit integration to DSC worked flawlessly. Until yesterday :(

My panel showed a comms problem, and I went to investigate and smelled something odd by the ESC32. The red-flight was flickering lightly like not enough power and then i touched the LM2596 voltage regulator and burnt my finger - it was so hot the plastic on it was melting.

So i pulled the power out of it and left it. Don't know what happened but looks like the LM2596 cooked...

Pity no one has built this thing retail with proper boards and soldered parts etc.
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Well well well do I have something interesting for you.

Hop on to the home assistant forums over here: https://community.home-assistant.io/t/esp8266-into-existing-alarm-dsc-system/225224/241

Check some of the awesome PCB designs some of the highly educated people over there build. You can do it too, depending on how much you willing to spend and time waiting for the board to be printed and imported.

Even if you don't do that, still have a look, you will want it so much and enjoy how good some of those designs look.
 
Tinuva said:
Well well well do I have something interesting for you.

Hop on to the home assistant forums over here: https://community.home-assistant.io/t/esp8266-into-existing-alarm-dsc-system/225224/241

Check some of the awesome PCB designs some of the highly educated people over there build. You can do it too, depending on how much you willing to spend and time waiting for the board to be printed and imported.

Even if you don't do that, still have a look, you will want it so much and enjoy how good some of those designs look.
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Awesome thanks! will check it out.
 
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