Hello all,
I recently moved to a house that has an old IDS805 alarm system. It kind of works but of course if the siren is activated while I am not in the house, good luck getting notified that somebody is in. Looking at the manual of the alarm I see it has some ‘programmable outputs’. The output goes from 0 to 12V for 3 seconds when the alarm is activated and then goes back to 0V. Now I am thinking I could use a zigbee or zwave device that detects that pulse (i have both networks running independently of the alarm) and notifies me. What kind of a device I should be looking for ? I prefer zigbee but any of them would be fine.
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I use a Sonoff SV just for that, it got two inputs, using one as sensor for “Armed” and one for “Alarm triggered”.
The one relay output is used to turn the alarm on or off remotely.As an fyi, wired sensors are pretty much universal. You could swap the panel out with a newer one that supports ethernet via an Envisalink board. Then you can integrate it with 2-way control to a homeseer/hass/etc. The Elk m1 and DSC Power16 would be upgrades.
Finally I went for Shelly UNI, it’s a very nice piece of kit and it worked like a charm. You connect its inputs to the alarm’s programmable outputs and you integrate this with your home automation system. It is wifi although I would have preferred zigbee/zwave but I could not find something better