Question

My home came with a DSC Impassa alarm system installed. It’s a model with wireless open/close and motion sensors. In the years we’ve lived there, I’ve never needed to change the batteries in those sensors. They’re rock solid. It would be awesome to integrate that system into ST. I’ve search but haven’t found anyone who’s been able to. Has anyone here gone down this rabbit hole?  

Answer 1

You can’t have powerg reporting to smartthings. The most logical way is to have a cloud integration of alarm. com and samsung, but I doubt alarm. com will ever do it

Answer 2

Alarm, com has gotten pissy with me for just having a SmartApp to arm and disarm my system, but they won’t do anything about it. As far as seeing sensors, I don’t think anyone has found a way.  

Comments

There are options - see my post below.  

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@anatolia7046 Konnected doesn’t work with wireless sensors, I have a Simon XT panel, it uses the same wireless Interlogix sensors.  

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@angell Dang yeah you're right so then the only option is something like the EVL 3/4 IF the base board supports it. (I had to replace my DSC board with a newer model to get that - but I was able to upgrade to a 24 zone system in the process)

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@anatolia7046 you’d have to have hard wired sensors for that to work right?  

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@angell or a board that supports both. AFAIK, once the board sees the sensors it doesn't care if it's wired or wireless. The EVL just sees sensor - not sensor type.  

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@angell Here's what I ran across when I was doing mine: DSC RF5132-433 Wireless Receiver - it provides a wired/wireless bridge between wireless sensors and a DSC 1616/1832/1864 system board. (the board I have) So you plug this into the system board, and then it interfaces with the wireless sensors. The EVL interafaces with the system board and just sees sensors and zones. So passes all the way through. Unfortunately the AlarmServer setup is is VERY DIY so not for the faint of heart. But - you have a dedicated alarm that doesn't rely on the Internet AT ALL and you can get status on sensors and set the device from WebCore. Best of both worlds.  

Answer 3

Try envisalink and raspeberry Pi for alarm server installlation. I have dsc 1616 with wired sensors and this way my integration works seamlessly with ST hub