Hi, I tried searching through the posts here and couldn’t find an answer to this but it’s possible I missed something.
I have a Powermax Express board and am trying to wire the Wemos board, but the pin locations mentioned in the instructions above are in use by a cable connecting and ethernet card. There are also pins for a cellular card that is not in use. Is it possible to use that, if so where should I connect the Tx/Rx cables? Or, is there a way to “double up” and use the slot that is already in use for ethernet? Or any other options?
Thanks for all your time and dedication to this project!
I believe some people have had success with using two smart connections (i.e. Powerlink and a DIY platform) but Im not sure of the details myself and you might be better looking on the HomeAssistant forums for what is possible.
That said my usual recommendation is to remove the Powerlink and by selling it you can normally make a profit v.s. DIY solution (this). What features are you specifically after that are missing?
@cjcharles Thanks for your reply! My main interest is to be able to integrate my Visonic alarm system with the rest of my home devices, i.e. to arm/disarm it from from Google Home, make custom integrations with other 3rd party devices via SmartThings, etc… I currently arm/disarm my system through the Visonic-Go app which I assume uses the ethernet connection from the Powerlink. I purchased your Wemos board from your site also. Is there any downside to completely disconnect the Powerlink module and instead just use the Wemos board? I assume that I would lose connection to the app, but would imagine that all the functionality it provides (and more!) can be achieved by using your DIY platform.
It’s been a long time since I used a Powerlink (and before Visonic Go existed) so maybe it would be worth posting some of the things you use it for?
With my current setup (which is admittedly on Hubitat rather than smartthings, but it only takes 5 mins to transfer if you have a Hubitat hub and is the same wemos hardware) I get full control of the alarm and can see zone and alarm status, with notifications where desired. I’m not totally sure what else there is of use, but I have considered adding email alerts directly to the wemos since that way there is a bit more resilience in case ST goes down.
don’t suppose you fancy posting your github or a link to your sketch so i can make a few tweaks to it could you? fair enough if you’re still making money from your devices though.
I’m not making any money from it now (it doesn’t cover the costs of selling tools), and I have published the source code (though I am not totally convinced I’ve published code with all the latest changes). I can check the latest date if needed.
What features did you want to add? I’m always keen on improving things.
ah cool. it wasn’t anything in particular right now. i was really looking at it from a curiousity point of view and seeing how it works and how I can tweak it. Its the first time i’ve seen some kind of code on a esp device running anything more than a little complicated.
Do you have a link to your github? (or are you davesmeghead?)
Anyone know if the device handler is going to keep on working after September when they deprecate the old API?
Are we going to be losing access to our Alarms soon?
Afraid I moved to hubitat and have built an improved integration there. I did look at trying to support ST and edge but their CLI interface was beyond confusing and nothing worked so I gave up and don’t have time to go back to it now.
My code is online so somebody could pick it up if they wanted and there is hopefully some enough capacity in the ESP to support.
Well, was afraid you moved on, but off coarse thanks very much to where you brought the whole integration in the past.
Is there anyone brave here to attempt to create a new Edge driver? Without it I am afraid we will lose access to our alarm, and personally that’s one of the most important component in my smart home…
Hello! Yes, still using and still works great on ST with my Alarm Panel.
What will be the future of this integration? @cjcharles should we expect this to stop working from some point?
Thanks,
@Arielgr do you have any updates from your daily usage? I really don’t want to lose this great work…
I’ve been using my Powermax + with ST for a number of years but I’m now looking at moving it over to Home Assistant.
I’ve got all my other kit working in Home Assistant and was wondering if there was a step by step for getting my Powermax+ ST integration to work with HA. I’ve setup the integration in HA but do I need to reflash/ reconfigure my ESP8266 Wemos in the panel?
Thanks.
I haven’t done it myself but it should be very easy to swap to mqtt notifications rather than the default web requests, and then it’s super easy to action those in HA. I think there are a few people in this thread who have done it.
I’ve updated to the latest firmware on the wemos but having trouble with the settings to get this to work with HA/ MQTT.
Is the Smart Home Controller IP/ Port the HA IP/ Port?
Is the Static IP, the IP of the Wemos?
If so, then in HA it prompts me for a IP and port which I assume is the Wemos, what port would it be?
I’m using the HA integration from here: Home · davesmeghead/visonic Wiki · GitHub but struggling…any help appreciated.
Search in this topic for mqtt and it’s very easy to pull the sensor and alarm status into HA. There is no specific integration with my device it uses mqtt.
I think a moderator marked it as obsolete, not me.
It’s all down to when smartthings close down groovy. The code for the integration is published, so somebody could undoubtedly modify it to support the new-ST platform, alternatively the current ESP/Wemos code supports Hubitat or Home Assistant (via mqtt).
