Hello,
I am new to all of that. I am a bit knowledgeable about computers, but I have no idea where to start for my project. Here is what I have:
DSC 1616 alarm system working with Envisalink 4
smarthings V2 (Not setup yet)
Raspberry Pi 3 Model B (Not used yet)
I read lots and I know I need to install alarmserver on PI3, but I have no idea how and where to start.
Is there a step by step guide for it? Any help is appreciated.
I am also new to Rpi. The only link was the one I sent you. But you need to
install ubuntu mate on RPI before installing the alarm server. I followed
this youtube instructions:
Hello,
I get loss here too. I’m don’t know how to install AlarmServer on Raspberry Pi. Can someone provide links with step by step please?
After install python on raspberry, what should I do next ?
For those of you looking for help with the Alarm Server on a Raspberry Pi, here are some tips/tricks that I learned along the way. Just got mine up and running with Alarm Server.
Firstly, for specific Raspberry Pi instructions - take a look at the Alarmserver.Service file in the GitHub repo. All the Raspberry Pi specific instructions are in that file. (I don’t understand why the contents of that file aren’t in the Read-me). Here’s the file: https://github.com/LXXero/DSCAlarm/blob/master/alarmserver/alarmserver.service
Once you are into the Pi, the first thing you’ll want to do is copy all the files from the https://github.com/LXXero/DSCAlarm/tree/master/alarmserver and put them in a folder, I chose to use /home/pi/alarmserver and I used the built in Pi browser to download everything.
Once you have all the files pulled down and stored in the new folder, run these commands in the terminal: sudo apt-get install python-pip pip install requests
Make sure you have all the configuration in the files complete per the Github instructions and then run (I’ve modified these to use the folder that I created/referenced above): chmod ug+x /home/pi/alarmserver/*.py sudo cp -R /home/pi/alarmserver /usr/lib
Create a hard link per the instructions: ln /usr/lib/alarmserver/alarmserver.service /usr/lib/systemd/system/alarmserver.service
Run the following commands to enable and start the service: sudo systemctl enable alarmserver.service sudo systemctl start alarmserver.service
You can use the additional commands provided in the alarmserver.service file to monitor or check logs. I’d suggest using these to ensure you’re connected to the Evisilink device. I’m not exactly sure how the service stays running, but I found it runs when restarting the Pi. If you need to update the configuration folder, update your original files (mine were in /home/pi/alarmserver) and run the command sudo cp -R /home/pi/alarmserver /usr/lib to copy over the files again.