Using Crow Runner 8/16 Alarm system at my home. For a long time there was no TCP/IP connection of this system to smart home systems, but at last AAP from New Zealand (Which is a subsidiary of Crow Systems) came up with a new IP Module which supports two way TCP/IP connection to any system you want. There was already an AAP and Crow IP Module in the market which allowed to have a connection to the alarm system via a smartphone, however this card did not allowed to be used for any other system.
The new IP Module is based on the xisting module, however with a different software. The card is this:
As you can see it writes "Beta" on the sticker since this is being tested at the moment with Fibaro. Since i am very impatient, i ordered a module from the good guys in AAP, btw they are the best in support, i have never seen such a good product support up to now...
Connection to the Crow Runner is very easy since you use the kbus cable that comes with it and connect the module to an empty keypad port on the Runner system. You make the necessary setup on the card with a pc, only to set the IP and the port number.
For testing purposes you can connect via telnet with the assigned ip and port. You can send a "STATUS \r\n" for the open zones and arm/disarm status and any other info. You can also use "KEYS xxxx\r\n" to send any keycode to the keypad.
In the meantime, the module pushes new messages of Zone open and Zone close as "ZOxx" or "ZCxx" where xx is the zone number. So that you can follow up door contacts or movement detectors without any delay. I prepared an early phase plugin to follow up ZO and ZC messages and setting "Arm/Stay/Disarm". When the manual of the new module (Yep it is not ready yet
) is completed, i will try to add other messages. So in Domoticz, it looks like this:
The plugin is here...https://github.com/febalci/DomoticzAAP
