SmartThings hub, Alarm.com hub, or both?

[rontalley]

The following has worked for me flawlessly since setting it up.

I have a DSC Panel with 28 sensors to include motions, contacts, glass breaks COs and Smokes. These were already pre-wired before I moved in.

I have professional monitoring through ADT for the DSC home alarm that cost about $30/month.

I was able to use the EVL4 to integrate all of the DSC Sensors into ST to use as ST devices for HA as well as setting up custom monitoring.

To do this, I run a community built app on a Raspbian Pi3

[OBSOLETE] DSC -> EVL-3(4) -> Alarmserver -> Smartthings

There are a million threads about this, and I figured I should start my own. I’ve compiled code from 3-4 people here and will give them credit. This set up allows arm/disarm via local LAN so you do not have to worry about https, security, and port forwarding. It creates all devices, you only need device types for contact, motion, smoke, and co2. Very simple, and easy. If you have a raspberry pi you can host alarmserver on it and have this running much much quicker and easier than any other dsc integration method. This is from @sanity, @xero, @ethomasii, @jtt, @rfish8u, @mattmartz, and countless others I"ll name as I remember. If you’re experienced in setting this up you can skip directly to the devices, smartapp, and alarmserver and be good to go. For new users, view the advanced r…