Good afternoon, I currently have a very simple Control4 HC250 system that does the following for my 20 year old Ademco Vista 40 Honeywell alarm system and my WaterCop whole house water shut off valve:
When I set the alarm to AWAY, Control4 turns off my WaterCop whole house water valve (through a Wemo controller) and powers off my Whirlpool undercounter ice maker. The alarm box has four wires going to one of the audio jack inputs on the Control4 unit.
When I DISARM the alarm, the ice maker turns on and the water valve opens.
When I set the alarm to STAY, the alarm is armed, the water valve stays open and ice maker stays powered on.
Depending on how this is being done Hubitat might be able to. If the WaterCop is Z-Wave or Zigbee this should work. I would need more info on the WaterCop and interface in use. The same applies for the IceMaker as it's dependent on how it's being interfaced.
This sounds like a typical serial interface from the alarm to the HC250. Hubitat has no ability to directly interface with anything hardwired so this is not possible. You would have to setup an intermediate box and scripting between them to get this to work and likely would not be reliable enough to be happy about.
Thanks so much for your input on this. I am brand new to home automation. Can you please give me an example of an intermediate box? And are there any consumer hubs that have the ability to have a hard-wired input?
Other than ethernet? Not that I'm aware of. There are software based systems that you install on your own server or buy a server but they are still DIY systems which take a degree of learning before they are useful.
If I can ask what is the driver to replacing the Control4 system that is working? Or is it no longer working?
I have a WaterCop and it is zwave and pairs directly to the Hubitat hub. With your ice maker you could just purchase a smart plug or zwave in wall receptacle and control it as well.
The alarm panel is a little more involved and nothing “out of the box” with Hubitat but there are custom integrations with the Vista panels.
Great. What version does @TechnoBuddy have? Likely z-wave but he also has a C4 system which has relationships with lots of vendors and often has custom versions for C4 integration. When dealing with Control4 which BTW has their own proprietary Zigbee implementation you can't ever be too sure...
Your options for the Ademco alarm are going to be an Envisalink interface from EyzOn or an AlarmDecoder interface. Both have community developed integrations but do require some research to get up and running. Of course you can also get creative and probably come up with another solution to trigger Hubitat to do whatever you want to be your "no one home" routine. There are many many way to accomplish this. It could be based on proximity of the occupants, tied to a separate button you press, based on occupancy sensors not sensing anyone for a period of time, you can use a combination of parameters to refine the criteria too, etc etc.
