Envisalink integration

[Dnpwwo]

@stlsparky,

Good news and bad news:

Bad news:
I don't have a Honeywell alarm so can't really add support for it very easily.

Good news:
The current plugin works for Envisalink, not specifically for DSC alarms. If the Envisalink hides the actual connected alarm the plugin may work as it is.

Have you actually tried this?

[stlsparky]

No, I haven't. I've never even thought it would be worth a try. I just ordered an envisalink and will let you know in a week or so. I have been holding off for a honeywell/ ademco solution for so long (2 years +) I'm beginning to think that there isn't one, and I may just swap out to DSC. And either way, I'm only out the time to swap boards, learn programming, and minimal cost. I'll pull the trigger and order it and keep you guys informed...

[itguy78]

I have one of those ADT SafeWatch Pro 3000 with "ADT's custom Vista20P" panels on it (moved into a house with it installed). I am trying to make changes to the existing DSC envisalink plugin to make it work with the honeywell/ademco system. Right now I can: login, detect zones setup, read ready/not ready/arm status, control arm away/arm stay and disarm the system thru domoticz -- working on getting the zones information updated this weekend. There are a number of limitations to this system compared to the DSC, but I don't want to re-do my home alarm (and I assume you don't either) so that's why I'm working on it. Just wanted to give you a little hope on the subject.

EDIT: Seems like there's no more interest in this, but here's the link to the updated plugin if anyone looks for it in the future:
https://github.com/guino/Domoticz-DSCEnvisalink-Plugin

[mikeathome]

Hi,
I was surprised and glad to find the EnvisaLink plugin by @dnpwwo on Git. I have an old Envisalink3 board that I wanted to connect to over my network. I have a DSC alarm system with various sensors and it would be fantastic to include those in my HA environment.

I beleive the plugin is developed for the Envisalink board 4, but I did set it up and it worked fine for the first 2-3 days, but after that the number of errors started to increase and I disabled it again. The plugin has not been updated for the last 4 years I think.

I am at this point not looking for support to debug it, but rather to know if there are others using the plugin successfully and, if so, do they use the 3 or for 4 board, and are there tweaks that are neccessary to make it run smoothly?

Thank you
Mike

[tj222]

It works for me. Envisalink 4 with honeywell ademco system. I'm looking to expand and run it through alarmserver though and need to get that working. Or adapt this code to somehow send code strings.. I can't seem to figure out a way to get it to do that, need to probably write some code here but not too python familiar..

[mikeathome]

It works for me. Envisalink 4 with honeywell ademco system. I'm looking to expand and run it through alarmserver though and need to get that working. Or adapt this code to somehow send code strings.. I can't seem to figure out a way to get it to do that, need to probably write some code here but not too python familiar..

Thank you for the information @tj222, good to hear I'm not the only person running the plugin.

Since my original post in July I've managed to set up the online firmware update of the EVL3 (it was many-many major releases behind). I've also learned that the authentication code has been updated. For example, there is now a firewall stopping login attempts if the source IP is not on the same segment as the EVL and the default password has not been changed.

Since the update of the firmware and with the new knowledge the plugin works very well!