Hi! Could I set up mye Envisalink 4 alarm system in to Homey?
Hi Svein, Welcome to the community forum.
The quickest way to check whether a device is supported is to search the app store. https://apps.athom.com/. If you can’t find the specific device, have a look for the brand of device you are looking for.
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@Svein_Otto_Aure
As far as I can see there is not yet an app to link the Homey to a DSC panel via the Envisalink board. I thought I saw an app to link to a DSC panel via the Konnected module but can’t find it right now.
I personally prefer the Envisalink approach as it not only supports wireless sensors as well as wired ones but lets you keep your DSC panel monitored - neither of these is possible with the Konnected module.
I have posted an app request here - Homey Community App Requests
You might want to add you support for this to increase the chances of it being added.
Any updates on this? Would be awsome to integrate DSC Alarm into Homey.
Both myself and friend of mine have spent some time looking at both Homey and Hubitat, he went for Hubitat because he is able to connect his Konnected panel to it. Homeys lack of support for alarm panels was the clincher for him, I prefer Homey in most other respects but he has a point.
Same question here - any updates on this? It would be great to integrate DSC Alarm into Homey.
you can integrate Envisalink DSC alarms via home assistant and use the HA app.
You can also do it via MQTT : Envisalink MQTT and then the MQTT app in homey.
I don’t know how we can publish apps (I purchased my homey pro yesterday) but I can also develop a small app , it seems straightforward with the homey SDK.
You can publish a Homey app by running the command: homey app publish in your app directory. More information about creating and publishing Homey apps can be found here:
If you can publish an app that solves the integration to Envisalink (DSC alarm system), it would be great and highly appreciated!
I could give it a try.
- Are you owner of a DSC alarm yourself so that you could test?
- If yes, how can I share the app with you to test.
I’m not familiar with the Homey SDK but I have python skills. I started by implementing a python class that can arm and disarm the alarm panel and it works!
I’m going to develop the motion sensor class. I don’t have contact sensor myself to test that…
If there is interest, I could find the motivation to do that app.
I am certainly interested as well. The chat bots have directed me to Home assistant and Mqtt solution. That means addition of another Raspberry Pi for me and I feel the system just introduces too many variables again. My Envisalink is connected to a vista panel hopefully that won’t matter. Anyway, I would love to see an app.
Excellent! Yes, I am an owner of a DSC alarm system (with Envisalink). I have around 50 sensors (magnetic sensors, motion sensors and fire alarm sensors).
ok great, then we could start by supporting those: alarm panel, motion sensor, contact sensor, fire alarm sensors.
I don’t have vista panels but the integration will be built against the envisalink using the pyenvisalink library.
For the moment, since I have the homey pro in place for only a couple of days, I have integrated my alarm via home assistant (that I also installed 2 days ago) but it’s really overkill just for that usage. Also I ran into multiple issues installing home assistant and it did not expose the sensors as device+entities → I wasn’t able to use the official home assistant application. That’s when you meet those issues that you realize how great the user experience, not only the UI, of homey pro is. I hope I will become a fan… the next weeks will tell. 
I’ll start the work but first need to go through the tutorial of the homey python SDK. If someone recently went through it and has some advice, glad to hear.
I started reading the documentation from Homey.
I’m thinking about implementing those Features in the App:
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Alarm panel arm/disarm with arm_away, arm_stay, arm_night modes
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Zone sensor monitoring (open/close, fault, tamper, bypassed)
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Flow triggers: zone opened/closed, partition armed/disarmed
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Flow actions: arm away/stay/night, disarm
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Real-time state updates via callbacks
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Settings for IP, password, port, panel type
Do you see other requirements ?
