He8 dsc envisalink evl4
I need help integrating my alarm panel in hubitat. Hubitat will not connect with envisalink.
I installed the hubitat app and that brings me to my first question: since my alarm panel is a pc1616 (no wifi) what address do i type in the field alarm settings / alarm panel? Is it the same that the envisalink adress? I have both address field set the same. ( not as the picture below ).And what about the choose alarm communication wss / api field? I filled thealarm security code with the one i use to arm/disarm and the envisalink security code with user that i have not changed.
I have not changed anything in the apps or driver code. Is there anything for me to change in there?
Can anyone help me with this? I'm very new in the hubitat world, this the first project i work on.
The envisalink does talk with the dsc panel because i can see the status of my zones changing live when i log on to the evl4 ip address with google chrome.
It works with my Honeywell Vista panel and I believe it works with DSC. It uses Telnet and is a bit chatty if you turn on debug logging, but it does work.
I was using this integration at a client's site, and I found that it stopped working.
Not sure why, but it definitely had problems interfacing with the Envisalink board directly from Hubitat using this integration. Unfortunately, the developer of this integration is long gone from the Hubitat scene, so I had to do a workaround.
I setup a Raspberry PI 4 with Home Assistant that we had lying around.
HA has a well established interface to Envisalink, which is defined by the config.yaml file.
(See reference below).
I then installed the Home Assistant Device Bridge in Hubitat, and brought over all of the alarm sensors as devices to Hubitat (see reference below).
P.S. I had no prior experience with both of those, yet I managed to put it all together after a couple of hours.
