Suggestion please: Interfacing an external security keypad.

[Fellhahn]

It worked, as in the key pad behaved as expected. I still haven't installed the electric strike as we've had a bunch of other renovations going on. New floors and kitchen etc.

Issue I had was my HomeSeer instance would completely freeze up every 24-48 hours. Not good when it operates all your lights. Restarting the server wasn't necessary but restarting the HS executable was. The culprit seemed to be the Big5 plugin or possibly something to do with the COM line unit. When I disabled the Big5 plugin the freeze ups stopped. Not having an actual door lock to operate, I left it at that.

Just in the last week I have undergone a major shift in my HomeSeer installation. Previously I was using the Win32 executable running on a Windows Server 2016 virtual machine on top of a Windows Server Core physical hypervisor.

I am now running HS4 as a Docker container on an Ubuntu 20.04 physical host. The Dockerized version of HS4 is built from the Linux release of HomeSeer.

https://github.com/scyto/docker-homeseer

(Link above is for the HS4 version, forked from the HS3 version here: https://hub.docker.com/r/marthoc/homeseer )

I will re-enable the Big5 plugin and recreate the serial device profile, then see if the lock ups return.

[ferran]

Hi ericg , glad to know I'm not the only one with this goal

I have literally just ordered the following items.

External (weatherproof) Wiegand security keypad:

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/3280...1a526048kpKVF5

And a Wiegand to USB serial conversion module:

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/3291...chweb201603_55


Your goals around capturing the number entered via Arduino input and sending it to HomeSeer was exactly my first thought about how this should be achieved. However like yourself I've seen no way as yet to get the entered pin from Arduino -> HomeSeer. I'll be watching your posts now to see how you progress.

At this stage my intention is to use the Big5 plugin capturing RS232 input from a virtual COM port as suggested by risquare .

The ordered items will take as long as ~3 weeks to arrive . When they do I will post an update here with results. If everything works as intended I will publish a complete how-to in a separate post.

Hello, I want to try this.
In the link for the Wiegand to USB serial conversion module from Aliexpres there are 4 models available:
Virtual serial 16Hex.
Virtual serial 10Hex.
USB-H I D16Hex.
USB-H I D 10Dec.

Which of them works for 26-bit Wiegand.

It's probably one of the two USBs, but, 16Hex or 10Dec...

Thank you!!