Wire contact sensors to SmartThings hub

[Jason_Brown (JBrown)]

Here is one way I sure there are other ways of doing it.

Wired Alarm. Are there smart WIRED sensors available? Or just Konnected?

I have a Honeywell panel-based alarm system with about 16 sensors connected to it (not a small setup). I’ve just read up on Konnected as an option to essentially transform the entire system/panel into a smart system, but I’m not entirely sure I want to do in the system entirely. Konnected talks about a cheap alternative and dumping all the keypads (I have three) and my system uses an Internet-based monitoring option so I can already control it via my phone. Plus I like that I can disable it when friends or family stop by if we’re not at the house. With Konnected it seems that the loss of keypads would prevent say, a family member from gaining easy access and being able to turn off the alarm. I wouldn’t want to force everyone we know to use the Smartthome app just for us. So that all got …