Integrating a wired alarm to work with smartthings

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An alternative method:

Honeywell Vista 20p (15p) Integration (NOT IOT CONNECTED: security concerned users)

This is to illustrate a recent project where I integrated my Monitored Vista 20p alarm panel with Smartthings, allowing ST to monitor the Vista panel but NOT communicate with it. First off, this can be done with different approachs all together. For purposes of making it easy to follow, those methods are boxed just below, but they do allow for ST to (possibly) communicate to the monitored Vista panel. If that’s what you’re lookig to do, you can see a lot more and utilize all your individual security sensors in ST. That is NOT what I wanted to do. Using Alarm Decoder (AD2USB, AD2Pi) or an Envisalink Module, you can use ST to control your alarm (arming/disarming) directly or via routines. There is quite a bit of documentation on how to accomplish this. This approach will work with a…