[Solved] AD2PI & Vista 10SE Panel Communication Issue

[duachirag]

I got my AD2PI yesterday, hooked it up to Raspberry PI, connected all the cables as per instructions. I am trying to use a simple python program to handle arm and disarm events after installing AlarmDecoder libraries. I am using the SerialDevice interface. I am not getting anything back from the panel. Please let me know what might be missing. As I checked online, 10SE uses non-addressable keypads. Hard wired keypad came in with 31 by default. But I am not sure if anything needs to be done for AD2PI now, should be picked up by panel automatically, right? Please help!

[Scott]

Howdy,

You're correct that the SE panels are unaddressed, so you just need to configure your AD2PI to use address 31. You can do this by using a terminal program (screen is typically what we use) and entering an exclamation point to enter the configuration. The keypad address will be the first option. Just set that and hit enter through the rest of the prompts and you should be good to go.

Let us know if you have any other problems!

Scott

[duachirag]

Thanks a ton Scott! Giving it a try now!

[duachirag]

Thanks again Scott! I am able to listen to alarm panel now, want to arm/disarm the panel remotely. I am trying to use the SerialDevice's write method call, is that the correct way? Didn't see any sample codes around that.

[Scott]

Awesome, glad to hear it!

If you're using a SerialDevice directly then write() is the correct call, however I suspect you're probably using that wrapped in an AlarmDecoder object in which case you'd use send().