Take over alarm system devices?

🛎️ Get Help Devices
1

Hi all,

I recently bought a new (to me) house that has an Aegis alarm system installed. It’s all working, but I don’t want to pay the subscription for the service. Think there might be a way for me to take over the existing devices (many of them - contact sensors, motions sensors, smoke alarms) with Hubitat? If so, any idea how I could figure out how the devices are compatible, etc?

Thanks in advance…

2

Hard to say from their website what actual equipment they use. Is there anything on the panel that indicates a brand of gear?

3

If any of the devices are wired, you could potentially use konnected.

3 Likes
4

Don't know if you know, but you can get a discount on your homeowners insurance if you use a monitored alarm system...for my case, the alarm system has to monitor both burglar and fire...my discount is 10%.

1 Like
5

If you are interested in the Ring Alarm system from Amazon, I believe they offer a component to connect the existing wired sensors (Went looking for it, but didn’t find however…). They do require a subscription for monitoring, but it is only around $100 USD per year and includes the ability to store videos if you have their cameras.

I have their system and integrated it with Hubitat using the unofficial community integration.

1 Like
6

Not everywhere. No more discount in my city, with my insurance. They give discounts for leak detectors, however!

7

Hi all, just got around to taking one of the devices down. It’s a Honeywell 5853 glass breakage detector. It’s wireless, but no mention of communication protocol. They mention connecting it to Honeywell control units. Any thoughts?

image
image1920×2560 294 KB

8

Looks to be a 345mhz device

9

Is hubitat able to speak that language?

10

No... You would need some sort of bridge for that and I'm not aware of one...

11

gotcha, thanks. i'll report back if i find something...

Are all the security devices in my home likely to operate at 345 MHz do you think?

EDIT: I found this device - think it would work for the purpose? IQ WIRELESS TRANSLATOR 345 – QOLSYS

12

Coming back to this now, I've found some interesting stuff out there on software-defined radio. Stick a USB radio into a raspberry pi, install a couple packages, and then the trick is getting that data over to hubitat. Any thoughts?