Alarm decoder ad2usb

[jelockwood (John Lockwood)]

Ah right I see. So you have an existing alarm panel, it is already working with Alarm Decoder and you therefore have both the Alarm Decoder hardware and software setup.

There is a relatively simple ‘plugin’ for smarthings, it would talk to a RaspberryPi running the AlarmDecoder server, the RaspberryPi would be connected to the AD2Serial adapter.

The Smartthings ‘plugin’ consists of a device handler and a smart app. They are available here

GitHub - nutechsoftware/alarmdecoder-smartthings: AlarmDecoder webapp support...

Along with instructions.

There also seems to be a similar alternative to use an Arduino or Thing shield instead of a Raspberry Pi.

AD2SmartThings

Hi @craig, First, thanks for contributing your project to the community and depositing your code in github. When I started the project, I was actually confused about my alarm system and had started down the DSC Alarm integration path using code form @vassilis using some improvements made by @obycode. When I realized my alarm panel was a Honeywell system, your contribution was helpful for me to change directions. If I remember right, your implementation has has a bunch of extra code for a debugging mode, that was probably useful for you to parse out the AD2Pi messages, however that made it difficult to start from your code base. I also tried to continue with code from @obycode however the differences between the IT-100 and AD2PI code made that challenging as well. In the end, I hav…

It might also be possible to link the Smartthings hub and the Vera hub using MQTT and to ‘share’ the AlarmDecoder setup from the Vera to the Smartthings.