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[neohusky]

Hi Alain

Thank you for your work on this project. I'm a recent convert from Openhab and I'm still getting my head around Home Assistant.

I've flashed my wemos D1 mini successfull and I have got it connected and working with my dsc alarm. I've tested arm and disarm successfully using the Developer Tools / Services tool.

I'm being lazy, but, is there a guide or can you provide config files/ a card to integrate this into HA?

Ultimately, I'd love to integrate/expose this into homekit as a security device. Can you see that being possible?

Thanks in advance,
Theo

[Dilbert66]

This component is built around esphome which only works on home assistant at this time. For home kit you might want to look at using this component on the dsckeybusinterface library home project at:
https://github.com/taligentx/dscKeybusInterface/tree/master/examples/esp8266/Homebridge-MQTT

[neohusky]

Thanks for pointing me to the homebridge mqtt implementation. I had seen that previously,but, wanted to try an avoid an additional broker to learn.

A couple of questions:

1. Since I'm new to home assistant and really want to give it a go as a replacement for openhab do you have an example configuration with card for home your esphome project.

2. Once I have these all the sensors, statuses and switches implemented into home assistant I was looking to use HomeKit integration to expose and control these with HomeKit also. Do you think this is possible (even though it may seem like extra work/duplication)?

[Dilbert66]

1. There is an example setup in the project readme. https://github.com/Dilbert66/esphome-dsckeybus
2. I don't know anything about homekit sorry.

[neohusky]

A quick update...After setting the config and confirming everything worked and I could arm and disarm the panel from the dashboard I enabled the HomeKit integration which automatically did what I wanted in HomeKit :)

Thanks again!!

[younesetre]

Hello
I am new in homeassistant. the esp8266 I have to place it in parallel with the dsc or do I have to remove the dsc?

[Dilbert66]

In parallel. It emulates a keypad in order to allow homeassistant to talk with the dsc.

[younesetre]

Thanks,

The diagram of my alarm is little different. I can't find yellow or green wire but i have 3 wire : data, v_key and G

[younesetre]

I guess wire data is the green wire and v_key is the yellow wire

[Dilbert66]

What model of alarm system is this? The bus you show is not compatible with this library or any that I'm aware of.

[younesetre]

https://homedocbox.com/118732531-Environmental_Safety/Reading-carefully-this-guide-operating-this-system-strictly-on-the-standard-procedure.html

[Dilbert66]

Unfortunately this is not a DSC alarm system. The firmware does not support this system.

[younesetre]

Too bad, one adventure less.
Thanks lot

[albaboun]

hi dillbert66 , thank you for incredible proyect

I dont know how to send commandas from HA to dsc. ( example ; chime on off) can you give any advice ?

thank you very much

[Dilbert66]

Use the service esphome.xxxxx_alarm_keypress (where xxxx is the name you gave to your alarm panel in the yaml config) you can send the cmd "C" or alternatively send the cmd "*4" in parameter "keys" to toggle the chime. You can send any valid dsc keypresses this way.

[albaboun]

Thank You very Much!! Saludos, Alberto Baboun

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[albaboun]

hi dillbert66,

i cant figure out how to trigger an automation when alarm is fired. thank you for your help

[Dilbert66]

Look for the partition status sensor.dscalarm_partition_1_status to show "triggered" then you can have HA do an action. For more info on actions, you might want to look into the HA docs.

[Seamus-Mccartin]

Hi Dilbert66,

Is there a timeline on when the features in the other branches, mainly the keypad branch, are going to be merged into master and documented? I could probably puzzle it out over a weekend if I wanted to but a guide would be helpful.

[Dilbert66]

No timeline at this point since this is one of many projects I do in my spare time. I'm pretty busy with my paying gigs right now so havent had a chance to go back and work on it. The "keypad" branch is obsolete anyhow so I've removed it. I'm doing most testing on the "new" branch right now which will move to dev when I'm done. Most of the work really is involving creating a full LCD keypad emulation in firmware that matches a physical lcd with similar menu's. I'm about 80% there. There really isnt much new for documenation anyhow as the same functions will be there except the keypad card will now work more like a real LCD for control.

Is there something in particular that you are wanting or not sure about?

[ikeserpa]

Hi Alain, I am very grateful for the excellent work you have done with this project. I built the board and I'm already using the resources in HA. I would be immensely grateful if you could guide me to put a keyboard on the HA lovelace. Do you have a guide that can help me with this? Thank you very much.

[whiteas2]

Hi. Thank you for the great project. I have built the interface and was able to connect to a test alarm panel and read zone status. When I connect to my installed alarm I get a keybus error on the existing keypads if the esp device is attached. The installed alarm has multiple keypads and expanders. Any idea what the problem could be?

[olddawgpowers]

Very nice project. I currently have Envisalink and it works quite well, but would like to test this as an alternative and/or backup. Is there any issue with using this and Envisalink?

[Dilbert66]

No issues at all. I have both running on the same system.

[olddawgpowers]

Thanks for fast response.

[olddawgpowers]

Great job on this project Alain. Had a Nodemcu ESP8266, some P817 Optos so I gave this a try to run parallel with my Envisalink. I used the “new” version. Very impressive and fast response.

[Dilbert66]

Thanks. Glad you got it working. For best operation though an ESP32 is recommended as the ESP8266 is tight on resources with the latest code.

[olddawgpowers]

For others that are using Envisalink. I have been using Envisalink for many years and use EyezOn monitoring. It has been solid with no false alarm reports. I started using Envisalink Home Assistant integration a couple of years ago and would notice occasional states not updating. I thought it was a zone switch or possibly the PowerSeries zone wiring. I installed the esphome-dsckeybus and ran them parallel it appears the Envislink integration is not updating correctly.

In the attached image the dscalarm Garage Door(z2) is the esphome device I added and the Garage Door is the Envisalink. The esphome device reports correctly showing both times I open and closed the door at 2:55 and 3:01. The Envisalink shows the first open and close but almost immediately reports a "false" open. At approximately 3:01 I open and close the door again and it reports correctly closed.

[JacoAnnandale]

Good day

Thank you for a very well written implementation of the DSC Alarm. Works like a charm.

Sometimes I need to bypass a couple of zones, is there a way, with the help of your code, to bypass a group of zones? or just one zone will also work.

Thanks

[Dilbert66]

Just use the usual dsc keypad cmds. My code is basically a keypad. Send *1xx# where xx is the zone or if you want to bypass all zones, send *199#

[JacoAnnandale]

Thanks, will give it a go !!