Hacking an old vivint system to be able to view remotely

[chrisleeuk (Chris Lee)]

I managed to get the Vivint Cameras working, with blue iris and Home assistant.
I think the principals will be the same for openhab.

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Bought a house with vivint takeover window, door bell, etc

Probably too late for the original requester, but I’ve been hacking around with the old Vivint system my house has. Trying to reuse the equipment before buying anything new. The Vivint panel is basically useless, it’s a closed unit. Other devices like cameras, door sensors etc. may possibly be useable. So far I’ve managed to take control of the Vivint Camera’s. They look to be the same cameras as the requestor. I didn’t need to do anything with the Vivint Panel to use these. What I did was…