Nice to see this thread revived! I too am looking to replace :
- the GPRS notifications from my professional alarm system to an alarm monitoring centre
- with SMS or push notifications from my Homey Pro, to family members’ smart phones.
We would then call the fire dep’t or the police ourselves, if needed.
The home insurance discount for central monitoring by a secuity service provider is peanuts compared with the subscription for the service. Most of the home insurance discount is linked to the quality of the professional home alarm system (insurance-approved), which I own and maintain myself (ie. no subscriptions / ARRs ![]()
Does anyone have experience or learnings to share from “tapping into” the standard output signals from a standard home & small business alarm system?
My system sends burglar or fire alarm signals via a “GSM and GPRS Universal Communicator” PCB unit plugged into the 2012 or so vintage alarm central unit, where all the various sensors connects in.
Given that the standard features of this Communicator includes “remote activation of the outputs through caller identifcation and SMS transmission” , it should even be possible to reset an alarm from our smart phones - either directly by SMS or via Homey?