Hello,
I'm new here. I'm working on "upgrading" a large estate which currently has four buildings (home, pool house, shop, pump house). The house has an Omni Pro II system providing alarm functionality (and a few lights) to the house only. I've added a SmartThings hub to connect to a few Z Wave devices, notably a driveway entrance sensor which causes alarms to "ding" around the house and shop when a vehicle comes up the driveway. The house, pool house, and shop are connected via hard wired Ethernet, the pump house is connected to the network via wifi bridge.
I hope to accomplish this:
- Replace SmartThings hub with HomeSeer Hometroller
- Retain OmniPro II primarily as the security system but for the entire property, not just the house
- Add Z Wave sensors, alarms, etc to the HS system in the other buildings
- Cause the OmniPro II to respond to the Z Wave sensors being tripped in the other buildings
- It would also be nice to add a "console" of sorts to the other buildings allowing them to arm/disarm the system (this isn't a deal breaker, but would be nice).
Hopefully that explains what I'm trying to do well enough. If we were able to just expand the OmniPro II system to the other buildings that would probably solve at least the security aspects of this, but running cabling between the buildings to tie in sensors and consoles just isn't possible.
Also, I came across this thread which I think shows it's possible to use the Z Wave sensors on the HS side to trigger the OmniPro II but I'd love confirmation of that:
https://forums.homeseer.com/showthread.php?t=190615
Thanks so much,
Phil
I'm new here. I'm working on "upgrading" a large estate which currently has four buildings (home, pool house, shop, pump house). The house has an Omni Pro II system providing alarm functionality (and a few lights) to the house only. I've added a SmartThings hub to connect to a few Z Wave devices, notably a driveway entrance sensor which causes alarms to "ding" around the house and shop when a vehicle comes up the driveway. The house, pool house, and shop are connected via hard wired Ethernet, the pump house is connected to the network via wifi bridge.
I hope to accomplish this:
- Replace SmartThings hub with HomeSeer Hometroller
- Retain OmniPro II primarily as the security system but for the entire property, not just the house
- Add Z Wave sensors, alarms, etc to the HS system in the other buildings
- Cause the OmniPro II to respond to the Z Wave sensors being tripped in the other buildings
- It would also be nice to add a "console" of sorts to the other buildings allowing them to arm/disarm the system (this isn't a deal breaker, but would be nice).
Hopefully that explains what I'm trying to do well enough. If we were able to just expand the OmniPro II system to the other buildings that would probably solve at least the security aspects of this, but running cabling between the buildings to tie in sensors and consoles just isn't possible.
Also, I came across this thread which I think shows it's possible to use the Z Wave sensors on the HS side to trigger the OmniPro II but I'd love confirmation of that:
https://forums.homeseer.com/showthread.php?t=190615
Thanks so much,
Phil
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