I've been experimenting with the Ademco Vista plugin and have been quite happy with it (I'm still in the trial period, but I expect to purchase it shortly). I do have a couple of questions about using it. I'm using HS3 on Windows 10.
1. I would like to have an event that gets triggered when someone sets the alarm and leaves the house. I have a motion detector in my garage so I was thinking that I would look for a motion event while the alarm panel was arming. However, there isn't a state for that. I though maybe I could use the 'last panel message' set to the value 'ARMED ***STAY** You may exit now', but the editor wants me to enter numeric values. Is there a way for a HS3 event to configure an event to know that the alarm panel is in the process of arming?
2. Our house has a motion sensor that we never use because we're afraid of cats setting off the alarm. As a result, we always arm the house 'STAY' to deactivate the motion sensors. I was reading that you can configure an alarm sensor to be a type 23 sensor, which doesn't send an alarm when triggered. However, when I tried configuring the sensor to type 23, there didn't seem to be any recognition of any motion activity, even though I was clearly activating the sensor.
I only know enough about my alarm system (Ademco Vista 50P) to be dangerous so I may be misunderstanding how type 23 devices are supposed to work, but is there a way for the plugin to see events from a type 23 zone device? I'd like to be able to get events from this motion sensor whether the alarm is activated or not. Right now I only get events when the alarm is disarmed.
Thanks!
Jim
1. I would like to have an event that gets triggered when someone sets the alarm and leaves the house. I have a motion detector in my garage so I was thinking that I would look for a motion event while the alarm panel was arming. However, there isn't a state for that. I though maybe I could use the 'last panel message' set to the value 'ARMED ***STAY** You may exit now', but the editor wants me to enter numeric values. Is there a way for a HS3 event to configure an event to know that the alarm panel is in the process of arming?
2. Our house has a motion sensor that we never use because we're afraid of cats setting off the alarm. As a result, we always arm the house 'STAY' to deactivate the motion sensors. I was reading that you can configure an alarm sensor to be a type 23 sensor, which doesn't send an alarm when triggered. However, when I tried configuring the sensor to type 23, there didn't seem to be any recognition of any motion activity, even though I was clearly activating the sensor.
I only know enough about my alarm system (Ademco Vista 50P) to be dangerous so I may be misunderstanding how type 23 devices are supposed to work, but is there a way for the plugin to see events from a type 23 zone device? I'd like to be able to get events from this motion sensor whether the alarm is activated or not. Right now I only get events when the alarm is disarmed.
Thanks!
Jim
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