Existing Security Hardware

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Simon XTi

First you need to know how your system exposes data. REST API? RS232? Alarm.com has an API if you don’t want to mess with hardware. Or change to a more common “dev” friendly hardware such as Honewell Vista. My setup can be found here:

Lowes Iris Zigbee Questions

Bear with me, I’ll try to be detailed as possible. Let me answer you by the # #1 Power stuff Most of my sensors are Honeywell 5800 wireless series. They came with my ADT when I first puchased the house. That ADT system had a wireless main controller panel, that had no means of integration (no comms). I ditched the ADT service after the contract and I purchased a Vista alarm panel. The vista has a rs232 so it was easy to integrate with an arduino (total cost to integrate was like $10). It wor…