alarmdecoder.com

Hi,

After toying with getting messages directly from the AD2USB via Python scripts, it makes more and more sense to integrate the alarm events into a home automation system. Looks like Vera would be a valid direction, but I'm more interested in something I could run on my Raspberry Pie as it would allow me full control and flexibility.
I thought MisterHouse could be an interesting direction but found very little information about the possible integration.
Can you shed more light on this?

Alternatively, would you recommend other open-source home automation software that can run on RPi, for which the integration with AD2USB is working and documented?

thanks!
Ron

You can see a list of supported home automation systems here: http://www.alarmdecoder.com/wiki/index. ... on_Systems

I know that MisterHouse is actively developing a plugin for our device - I am not sure if it is in a public repository at the moment, but posting on their mailing list should get you more information on that subject.

You can find some instructions from Sean Mathews regarding this here: http://www.alarmdecoder.com/wiki/index. ... Controller

Thanks,
Kevin

Thanks Kevin.
So it looks like MisterHouse does not support the AlarmDecoder, or at least not yet. One guy is testing an integration yet but the code is not public, not beta-tested, and of course not supported. I asked for it on the MH mailing-list and received it, but I am looking into a system that really supports the AlarmDecoder for my RPi (either directly from the vendor or by community support).
OpenHAB has a publicly available integration module to AD*, and it can run on the RPi, but you haven't suggested it in your reply.
So... What are the HA systems that have known support for the RPi with AlarmDecoder?

thanks,
Ron

It just depends on the needs.

I run MH and the Ad2* plugin from the fork of MisterHouse it will eventually be merged in but MH is going through a lot of changes from SVN to Git and its not merged yet but works very well.

I have not looked at OpenHAB but we do list it on our supported HA systems page. My only looking into OpenHAB is that it does not support a lot of older HA equipment something that MH does as it has drivers going back to stuff built in the 90's

We also have our own API. Its not a full HA system but would make interfacing to an HA system very easy so it still comes down to what systems even run on a Pi. For me I think the best bets are OpenHAB and MH for full HA stuff personally I like MisterHouse because it does so many things downside is its a lot to learn. I would like to know more about OpenHAB if you do investigate this please keep us posed maybe you can write a HowTo for the wiki?

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Sean M

Ron wrote:Thanks Kevin.
So it looks like MisterHouse does not support the AlarmDecoder, or at least not yet. One guy is testing an integration yet but the code is not public, not beta-tested, and of course not supported. I asked for it on the MH mailing-list and received it, but I am looking into a system that really supports the AlarmDecoder for my RPi (either directly from the vendor or by community support).
OpenHAB has a publicly available integration module to AD*, and it can run on the RPi, but you haven't suggested it in your reply.
So... What are the HA systems that have known support for the RPi with AlarmDecoder?

thanks,
Ron

There seem to be a number of people successfully using AD2USB with OpenHAB. I have an AD2USB on order and will be using it with a $60 ARM system (Cubieboard2 dual ARM processor, 1GB mem, so more powerful than RPI). I'll post how it goes. RPI will work with OpenHAB but it seems like it struggles depending on number of events and rules. OpenHAB works great with dual core ARM.