Satel CA-10 to MQTT

[voyo]

Hello everyone,
I wrote small utility - a bridge which allows to integrate Satel CA-10 alarm system with Domoticz (actually virtually anything what is MQTT capable)
While this Satel model is quite old, outdated, and definitely rather should not be capable to integrate with anything IoT - I still have decided to give it a try, and instead of replacing it with new model - I gave it a small upgrade and a second life.

In my case it is connected to my Domoticz server, running on Raspberry Pi, with USB to RS232 cable.
Requirements and drawbacks -
- on Satel you have to configure printing current events to printer (over RS232 connector),
- to one zone you have to add all inputs which you are interested to get events from,
- and on this zone - enable silent alarm
- mapping of Satel inputs to Domoticz MQTT message (including IDX) are hard-coded (easy to change) , but if anyone will be interested I can add some XML configuration to it.
- it is one-way integration only, means you cannot change anything on Satel side, only listen to events from Satel inputs

Here is source code:
https://github.com/voyo/satel2mqtt

enjoy (comments are welcome )

[xury]

I did not expect that one day CA10 will be able to work with Domoticz. In the past I installed many of these boards. It's nice that there are people who are doing such things. I wonder if it will work with CA6. Unfortunately, there are rather few such people who have Domoticz and CA10 and are able and willing to integrate them. Can I post information about it on the elektroda forum?
Have you thought to implement it in eq on ESP266? And make a TTL -TCP bridge?
Pozdrawiam
Sebastian

[voyo]

I'm glad my work is appreciated
Yes, I think it should work with CA-6 and smaller members of whole CA family, if only they are capable to print current events, keep same format of output and are multi-zones. I don't have them to test.
Sure, please share information on elektroda, you can PM me here with url to topic there.

Yes, at first glance I thought about using ESP (should be doable and quite easy). But then I changed my mind - at home I have Satel inside metal box, this makes use of any wifi device not practical as it blocks RF. And at the end I pulled the ethernet cable into the hall,
what allowed me to move raspberry pi with Domoticz there, and power it directly from Satel - using it as UPS.