[OBSOLETE] Honeywell / Ademco Vista 20P Integration

[mannyfresh2500 (Manny)]

Is there any way to read the current alarm status? I’d like to be able to use the alarm keyfobs to arm the system and then the hub will put SHM into away mode when the status of the alarm changes to armed away. Same with change SHM to disarmed when disarming via the key fob. I’m trying to see if there is away to do it from CoRE.

Thanks in advance.

Update: I think I’ll go with the solution described below using relays as output devices which tie into zwave contact sensors that have an external input.

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…

Update 2: I realized this morning that the SHM state is already mirroring my alarm system’s state. I armed stay the system on the keypad and SHM changed to Stay mode. Duh! It’s because of the node server synching it through.

Now I would like to figure out how to trigger a routine based on SHM state…