Home Automation - Smartkit

chickenbeef said:
Flashed a Sonoff basic wirelessly and it was really easy. Just follow the instructions on the Github page and have the patience to watch this channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7G4tLa4Kt6A9e3hJ-HO8ng

Waiting for my RPi to arrive then I'll tinker with HASS more. Doesn't run well on Windows.
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I only have the 2x Slampers and 1x POW - the Slampers aren't that important, they run my "cosmetic fire lamps".

Just havent found the effort to struggle with them yet... still busy struggling to get the Paradox alarm working with Home-Assistant. I can get the sensors working, just not the control of the alarm, but I think I'm close.

The dashboard side of Home Assistant is nice, but it doesn't seem to play nice when outside your local network.
 
Are you guys on the standard eWelink service up and running?

I went down ... but it seems I'm still down
 
Because simple is overrated...

My freenas is now running a bhyve vm which has a docker image, into which I will load an openHAB container...

:wtf:
 
Finally got the Paradox alarm working with home-assistant - still have to iron out a couple of issues - but I can now get sensors, alarm status and control the alarm.

Still need to figure out how to disconnect the alarm script when another device connects.
 
xrapidx said:
Finally got the Paradox alarm working with home-assistant - still have to iron out a couple of issues - but I can now get sensors, alarm status and control the alarm.

Still need to figure out how to disconnect the alarm script when another device connects.
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Did you you have an ip150 module on the latest firmware?
 
xrapidx said:
Finally got the Paradox alarm working with home-assistant - still have to iron out a couple of issues - but I can now get sensors, alarm status and control the alarm.

Still need to figure out how to disconnect the alarm script when another device connects.
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Care to share the home assistant yaml you're using? Also do you have he script connected to the HA built in mqtt server or are you using mosquito "externally"? I et protocol errors from the script trying to connect to HA.
 
CraZee said:
Did you you have an ip150 module on the latest firmware?
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Nope - apparently its problematic - I did see a video somewhere yesterday of a guy who managed to roll back.

rorz0r said:
Care to share the home assistant yaml you're using? Also do you have he script connected to the HA built in mqtt server or are you using mosquito "externally"? I et protocol errors from the script trying to connect to HA.
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Using Mosquito.

I'll upload the yaml when I get home if you still want it - but its stock standard.

I edited Tertius's IP150-MQTTv2.py to Publish the alarm statuses in HA compatible format to Paradox/HAEvents (disarm/arm/arm_away/etc) - I didn't want to overwrite/change what he's already publishing to Paradox/Events.

The issues I have at the moment
1.) Binary Sensors - keep logging Warnings in HA until the sensor is published at least once to Paradox/Events (i.e. you need to open and close every window/door/PIR) -

This is not really a train smash to me - I'm thinking of changing the script to publish all the events as off on start-up, not entirely accurate, but that's whats happening at the moment anyway on HA. It'll self correct when the sensors are triggered.

2.) Alarm Control / Status on HA - on startup its Unknown - control and status only become possible after the first event is published to Paradox/HAEvents (as issue as above), but for arm, disarm, etc. Again - thinking of a brute force approach where I just publish a disarm on startup.

3.) Disconnecting the script - still need to find a way to disconnect the script from the IP150 module so Alarmin can connect. I see mention of disabling polling via MQTT and then re-enabling it after - still need to test if its a viable solution.

I'm not a Python developer, so still getting the hang of thing - at the moment its more hacking than anything else.

My order of sorting out the issues aboe are 3,2,1.
 
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xrapidx said:
Finally got the Paradox alarm working with home-assistant - still have to iron out a couple of issues - but I can now get sensors, alarm status and control the alarm.

Still need to figure out how to disconnect the alarm script when another device connects.
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Good stuff, let us know the details.
 
xrapidx said:
Nope - apparently its problematic - I did see a video somewhere yesterday of a guy who managed to roll back.



Using Mosquito.

I'll upload the yaml when I get home if you still want it - but its stock standard.

I edited Tertius's IP150-MQTTv2.py to Publish the alarm statuses in HA compatible format to Paradox/HAEvents (disarm/arm/arm_away/etc) - I didn't want to overwrite/change what he's already publishing to Paradox/Events.

The issues I have at the moment
1.) Binary Sensors - keep logging Warnings in HA until the sensor is published at least once to Paradox/Events (i.e. you need to open and close every window/door/PIR) -

This is not really a train smash to me - I'm thinking of changing the script to publish all the events as off on start-up, not entirely accurate, but that's whats happening at the moment anyway on HA. It'll self correct when the sensors are triggered.

2.) Alarm Control / Status on HA - on startup its Unknown - control and status only become possible after the first event is published to Paradox/HAEvents (as issue as above), but for arm, disarm, etc. Again - thinking of a brute force approach where I just publish a disarm on startup.

3.) Disconnecting the script - still need to find a way to disconnect the script from the IP150 module so Alarmin can connect. I see mention of disabling polling via MQTT and then re-enabling it after - still need to test if its a viable solution.

I'm not a Python developer, so still getting the hang of thing - at the moment its more hacking than anything else.

My order of sorting out the issues aboe are 3,2,1.
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Out of interest sake, doesn't paradox have something similar to what DSC alarms have. I can issue a command to the alarm system (through openhab), that requests the current status of all sensors, which the alarm then spams out and openhab literally gets everything refreshed in less than 1 second.
 
Tinuva said:
Out of interest sake, doesn't paradox have something similar to what DSC alarms have. I can issue a command to the alarm system (through openhab), that requests the current status of all sensors, which the alarm then spams out and openhab literally gets everything refreshed in less than 1 second.
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wait wait what interface into the DSC do you have? (/looks at DSC alarm)
 
xrapidx said:
Finally got the Paradox alarm working with home-assistant - still have to iron out a couple of issues - but I can now get sensors, alarm status and control the alarm.

Still need to figure out how to disconnect the alarm script when another device connects.
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I'm planning to do the same once I move into my new house. Any recommendations as to which Paradox model to go for?
The house I sold had an IDS alarm panel and that thing sucked ass so miss me with that gay *****.

Anyway, as I've told Dolby via PM, I want to automate everything

I already have a bunch of Sonoff switches, later today I'm ordering a bunch of these and maybe a couple of 2-gang and 3-gang, two way switches - the kuk here is I don't know how things are going to be wired in the house which I haven't found yet :p So I need to get my ass covered. If Dolby stocks the aforementioned then I'll likely order it from them after transfer has gone through because I want to take a few days' leave to connect and set everything up.

I also have a bunch of these which I bought from RS a couple of years ago for R40 each, I'll program them for auxiliary things because of their extremely low power consumption and versatility either use the Pi as the hub, or a VPS, but I'll most likely have the Pi as the hub with a port forwarded to the DMZ.

Then I'd like to be able to get details about my electricity usage, remaining prepaid electricity, solar power generation/consumption, battery levels and ideally the ability to switch between direct solar inverted feed, the grid and batteries, at will.

I want to control everything from a 10" tablet, wall mounted in the lounge, all interfacing via Google Home Mini's throughout the house.

Then later I want proximity detection to automatically lock or unlock doors based on Wifi MAC address if all of us are away - I'm planning to get those GSM/GPS watches for the kids - I cannot use their tablets for this as the tablets aren't allowed to go out of the house, except if we're going on a long trip.

I've got so many things planned, most of which are escaping me now :p
 
I have a MG5050 panel (replaced an IDS alarm in Dec16) - if I had to redo everything I'd probably go for a custom solution - not impressed with the alarm and its "internet" capabilities.

So I got telegram integrated into the system - I can now issue commands and get responses. I might use this to disable the IP150 script so I can connect with other apps - then re-enable when done.

e.g. in Telegram - issue a command
/DisableAlarmPolling
 
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Sinbad said:
wait wait what interface into the DSC do you have? (/looks at DSC alarm)
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I have the DSC IT-100 serial port device. Works great with OpenHab which have great DSC support.
The Envisalink IP module work just as good in Openhab but also works in HomeAssistant.

DSC Alarms, for as little as people like them, actually works mostly great in automation, because there are so many of them out there, including in the states where most of this openhab bindings ect come from.
 
Tinuva said:
I have the DSC IT-100 serial port device. Works great with OpenHab which have great DSC support.
The Envisalink IP module work just as good in Openhab but also works in HomeAssistant.

DSC Alarms, for as little as people like them, actually works mostly great in automation, because there are so many of them out there, including in the states where most of this openhab bindings ect come from.
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Thanks. Can these coexist with the RDS tx-sms GSM module?
Where would I get one, and how much, and how hard to get going?
 
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