I actually did exactly that. You will need to get a 3.3v relay if you have a siren, but other than that, you should just be able to tae the 2 wires per contact sensor (and two data wires for motion/sound sensors) and hook them up to GND and one of the 6 pins (polarity doesn’t matter for data). I would recommend installing the Konnected outside the metal box of your alarm system, especially if you have weak wifi, but if you have strong wifi near the metal box you should be able to put the Konnected inside the metal box.
Yes. The hard part is installing the hardware. If you have a NodeMCU that is flashed with Konnected software and connected to the various sensors in your home alarm, and you can successfully connect the nodemcu to wifi, you should be able to use either smartthings or hubitat. Smartthings has a cloud- to -cloud integration, while Hubitat has a local (LAN) app. The messages I posted a fewmoths ago should explain the flashing and conencting of sensors to a NodeMCU. if you have any questions, feel free to ask.
Hey thanks for the quick reply. Ya your explanations seem very easy to follow. I am going to purchase the Mcu. Once I have the firmware done using knonnected your next step was to go to SmartThings and add device, click by brand and enter credentials, would this be the same if I decided to go with hubitat?
Last question I had was you said to purchase this expansion board. Where do I connect my sensor contacts/ zones? I don’t see any termanition points
Thanks again, I found there is an enormous amount of information and most not relevant.
@kenkeo8484 I used floppy drive cables and black tape. On my recent smoke detector integration, I found that it is actually easier to mount the nodemcu upside down and use a floppy drive cable or GPIO cables directly on the nodeMCU. If you find screw-in terminals for nodeMCU, you could use those too. The screw-in terminal in my previous posts are for Arduino and will not fit the nodeMCU. So you can either get the breakout board and use floppy cables, or you can directly put a floppy/GPIO cable to the nodemcu. I think the best option is to use a screw-in terminal, but they are hard to find for nodeMCU. If you find one, I can confirm if it will work.
I don’t actually have an existing alarm system, mine is modular, build entirely with nodemcu’s, magnetic contact sensors, 12v HONEYWELL PIRS, cheap external pir’s (ac, about 6 quid from Toolstation etc), cheap ac relays connected to these to provide a dry contact (connected to a nodemcu to detect when motion is active), 12v sirens (relays, nodemcu), 5v IA-LEDs (hubitat/wled)… etc. Ditto with interconnected smokes (again, dry contact through node to hubitat to detect activation).
Works to perfection, utterly modular, all off the shelf components.
Check out my posts over at the hubitat forums. Smartthings is an absolute waste of space IMO. Again, massive thanks to @Abhijeet_Ghosh for the initial assistance.
well i actually got the board and zones up and working within an hour. i had everything on smartthings app and when i was messing around with home setting on the smartsecurity app i deleted the pir sensor. i went back into konnect app to sync to device and when it rebooted i and now i cannot connect to it anymore , i have a constant blue flashing indicator and app cannot connect! ( any advice on how to solve this? . would ye have a link to your messages so i can maybe see how to do on hubitat( do you keep the same konnecyed firmware just using a differnet app?. i stayed with smartthings as i had set up virtual switches to link to my alexa. My end goal is to obviously have the house monitored via the phone/app but i would i also like to be able to tell alexa to arm the alarm and if alarm was set off to maybe activate a alarm skill or notification to my phone. is this possible?
@kenkeo8484 for hubitat, you keep the exact same firmware, but use the hubitat app on the hubitat itself. Also, usually another reboot fixes the blinking led. If it doesn’t, connect to Konnected_XXXXX wifi and re-enter your wifi credentials. You won’t lose any configuration. However, you will have to re setup your zones if you move to hubitat.
In hubitat, by creating virtual switches, you can arm and disarm hubitat safety monitor (similar to smartthings safety monitor). For the alarm idea, just create a virtual contact sensor in hubitat that opens when the alarm turns on. Then add an Alexa routine that activates when the contact sensor opens. Make sure to add a 1-second-delayed close to the end of the hubitat automation.
Perfect thanks, I have tried a few resets but . It’s seeming not to be able connect so I might try start all over again and start from stratch. Seems hubitat hub items are sold out for now so may have to stick with smartthings. I have used moes WiFi switch’s for all my lighting control which use smartlife app and I think I may have difficulty connecting to them with hubitat ( well that’s what I read from one thread!)
Thanks again for your help and previous instructions, would of never figured out the firmware steps otherwise.
I have set up the virtual switch to activate Alexa routine. Alexa sends a notification to my phone but is there a way to send an Audible alert?. If I set up a siren skill or even song it will work with echo or show device fine but will only work on phone if the app is open. Is there way to sound an alert on my phone from Alexa when app is not open so that I will receive a notification and some sort of audible alarm
The only easy way to connect your devices to Hubitat is by flashing them with tasmota in that case.
Have you connected to the Konected_xxxxxx network, typed in 192.168.4.1 into a browser, and checked why the WiFi is not connecting? In my case, it was a router issue, so fixing the router and rebooting got it back online.
Thanks Paul i saw that on the IFTTT app , but is there any way of doing something similar for an iphone? i can receive a notification but this is not really loud and could be missed easily
@kenkeo8484 You can play sounds via automations in the shortcuts app, but that cant be linked with ifttt. Do you happen to have a Raspberry Pi and a HomePod or Apple TV?
no worries cheers, i did use a routine to activate a siren skill and play a song from spotify but found that the song and sirens only work on the phone if the app is opened, wont sound if app is closed on the phone.
just an update, i was able to use the smartthings virtual switch with IFTTT which actions a telegram call to my phone when the alarm is set off. i also set up another IFTTT routine that sends me an email notification as well. cheers for the help lads