HI Mark,
I found out something interesting last night. We have a couple of zones for monitoring our freezers when snowbird between homes. They are wired as RF Zones as a Vista Zone Type 08. The definition in the programming manual is
Type 08 24-hour Auxiliary Alarm
Well we have a sensor that is going on the fritz and faulted at 2AM. This triggered a full blown alarm on the Homeseer side since it was processed as a burglar alarm.
I would like to avoid flipping on the all the lights in the house, etc. I have a number of different thoughts like using Zone Type 12 or 23 with a virtual output relay. Which will work, but I may have to give up central station monitoring.
I guess one question, is have you ever considered making you alarm processing more sophisticated? So that you could override the Homeseer side of alarm handling based on the Zone number. For example, in my log from last night, I am getting the following:
Which I think I understand what the plug in is doing. I suspect that unless the plugin sees "FIRE" in the string, it is treated as a burg alarm.
It would be interesting to be able to intercept the Zone number and being able to do something before invoking the Homeseer Event Processor with a burg alarm.
In my case, Zone 44 should never generate a full blown burg alarm on the Homeseer side. Right now it does because all non-Fire are burgs.
Any thoughts? I am not expecting a solution, but may be why it is not feasible in the Vista Plugin,
Bob
I found out something interesting last night. We have a couple of zones for monitoring our freezers when snowbird between homes. They are wired as RF Zones as a Vista Zone Type 08. The definition in the programming manual is
Type 08 24-hour Auxiliary Alarm
• Assign to a zone containing an emergency button, or to a zone containing monitoring devices such as water or temperature sensors.
• Sends a report to the central station and provides an alarm sound at the keypad. (No bell output.)
Well we have a sensor that is going on the fritz and faulted at 2AM. This triggered a full blown alarm on the Homeseer side since it was processed as a burglar alarm.
I would like to avoid flipping on the all the lights in the house, etc. I have a number of different thoughts like using Zone Type 12 or 23 with a virtual output relay. Which will work, but I may have to give up central station monitoring.
I guess one question, is have you ever considered making you alarm processing more sophisticated? So that you could override the Homeseer side of alarm handling based on the Zone number. For example, in my log from last night, I am getting the following:
May-15 1:59:04 AM | Vista Alarm | ****DISARMED****Hit * for faults |
May-15 1:59:04 AM | Vista Alarm | Sending Display Faults command to alarm |
May-15 1:59:01 AM | Vista Alarm | ALARM 44 GARAGE FREEZER |
It would be interesting to be able to intercept the Zone number and being able to do something before invoking the Homeseer Event Processor with a burg alarm.
In my case, Zone 44 should never generate a full blown burg alarm on the Homeseer side. Right now it does because all non-Fire are burgs.
Any thoughts? I am not expecting a solution, but may be why it is not feasible in the Vista Plugin,
Bob
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