Integrating Marmitek Proguard 800 status into Domoticz?

[JeroenL]

Dear all,

Ideally I would like to integrate my alarm system (Marmitek Proguard 800) status into Domoticz, so I can act upon.
I have two idea's but some thought on how these can be easily incorporated are most welcome.

1) Use the programmable relais. The proguard has a programmable relais which can set 220V to a contact. Is there a simple way to integrate this into Domoticz on a Raspberry Pi ?

2) The Proguard can send an X10 "on" command via the powermains, how could I get Domoticz to pick up this X10 signal (not via RF)? Is there a way to integrate my unused CM15Pro for this purpose?

Regards, Jeroen

[JeroenL]

This works now. Domiticz "listens" to my Proguard 800 alarm system via the CM15Pro Mochad interface.

I have set-up Mochad as descriped in the Wiki. https://www.domoticz.com/wiki/X10_devices,_CM15_Pro.
Next, I added Mochad to the Hardware in Domoticz (locahost and port 1099). This is already sufficient for Domoticz to recognize devices.

In the Marmitek Proguard 800 (with a X-10 module) I set HA Module 16 to "On" when alarm is activated. And I set HA Module 15 to "On" in case of an alarm.
So now, when I turn on my alarm, Domoticz sees X10 module being switched on. If I trigger the alarm, Domoticz sees X10 device 15 being turned on. Now I can act upon these events. <to be done>.

Ideally I want to trigger different timers when the alarm is on and off.

[JeroenL]

Some more advancement on integrating Proguard800, hoping it might be useful for some of you.

Now I managed to "integrate" the Proguard 800 motion sensors. The sensors itself I believe do send an encrypted signal and are not picked up by the RfxCOM. So to date I did not manage to create events based on motion detection.

Below is a work-around.

In your Proguard 800 create a "dummy" HA module (for instance #12). For this module in the proguard set the "On with Zone" to a value. E.g. On/Off for a door contact, or 30 sec for a motion sensor.
If these zones now get triggered, a new device shows up in the Domoticz device list, and can be added (I made them hidden). I then created an event that if the doors to the garden are open, it turns off my EvoHome heating system.
Another event I created, turns on the light in the Hall for 1 minute if motion is detected.

It works pretty good, however not perfect, as in some exceptional cases the X10 signal on the power-line does not get picked up by my CM15PRo. Do not know why.

[fpoulet]

Hi Thank you very much for your description.
Did you find a solution to catch the event when the alarm is disabled ?

Regards.
Fabrice.

[JeroenL]

Hi Thank you very much for your description.
Did you find a solution to catch the event when the alarm is disabled ?

Regards.
Fabrice.

Hi Fabrice,

What I did was change the setting for the associated HA module in the proguard to On/Off (so do not use the pulse option). You now have a toggle switch which you can pick up in domoticz.

Unfortunately it does not work all the time. Switching the alarm off, does not always get picked up. I Blaim it to a weak X10 signal from the proguard to the CM15Pro. Any ideas here more than welcome.
Switching the alarm on, works perfectly.

Hope this helps.

Jeroen


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[fpoulet]

Hi Jeroen,
Thanks a lot for your help.
I finaly reach to make all working perfectly.

I can c now if the alarm is armed or unarmed.
I have an event on intrusion when alarm is armed.
I have events for each zone on detection

In my case i'm using Jeedom, but all explain in this thread is correct for domoticz also.

Just one think i have discovered. There is a bug somewhere in Mochad or the plugin in Jeedom.
It is not allowed to use addresses greater than A9. Using 2 numbers result always to use the module A1

In conclusion monitoring the marmitek Proguard 800 is 100% doable but impossible to control using the x10

Regards,
Fabrice

[JeroenL]

Dear all,

As the X10 solution was not very reliable, I managed to use the programmable switch in the Proguard.

I connected a zwave wall switch to the power supply of my alarm, and the white switch wires to the programmable PRU contact of the Proguard.
Using: HAC01 – IN-WALL REMOTE MODULE from Everspring (eminent has the same).

In the zwave group editor I linked this switch to a “dummy” zwave on/off ( dummy as I only use the switch to follow the status of my alarm).

In domoticz in need to enable polling for the on/off switch, as somehow the a status change made the micro switch does not give an status update.

Let me know if you need more details.

Jeroen