I recently moved my SG activity largely to HS. To do that I did the following:
That left IR and IO. I moved some digital inputs to spare zones on my alarm panel. (Those zones are in Partition 3 so they do not affect the functioning of my actual alarm, which is Partition 1.)
Other digital inputs, analogue inputs, and IR remain with SG for now. I use ASCII exchange between SG and HS to coordinate them. I'll put my ASCII scheme in another post.
- Replaced all lighting events in SG with events and scripts in HS. That was tedious, and sometimes challenging, but not difficult. I moved one room at a time and discovered that once I had a few basic techniques under control, translating or expanding them to additional rooms was pretty quick.
- Connected my RCS serial thermostats to the Serial Thermostat plug-in. The plug-in works very well. The switch was quick and nearly painless. The most significant change is that the thermostats must be polled explicitly by HS, and a separate script is needed to populated HS devices with thermostat data. Of course, all events and scripts that reference thermostat data or settings had to be updated.
- Connected my NetworX NX8e to the jvCaddx plug-in. The biggest challenge I encountered was that initially the plug-in took a long time (hours!) to fully interrogate the NetworX system. Once that was completed, however, the plug-in has worked transparently. Again, all events and scripts that reference the security system had to be updated.
- Added a Way2Call modem connected to HSPhone.
That left IR and IO. I moved some digital inputs to spare zones on my alarm panel. (Those zones are in Partition 3 so they do not affect the functioning of my actual alarm, which is Partition 1.)
Other digital inputs, analogue inputs, and IR remain with SG for now. I use ASCII exchange between SG and HS to coordinate them. I'll put my ASCII scheme in another post.
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