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🔌General Home Automation => Automating Your House => Topic started by: s0urc3f0ur on October 30, 2007, 05:42:14 PM

Title: Automating an existing Home security system?
Post by: s0urc3f0ur on October 30, 2007, 05:42:14 PM

Is it possible to get AHP to talk to my existing home security system? I would like to have all of my existing window and door sensors act as triggers and have x10dispatcher alert me when something is open. Is this possible without purchasing the x10 security modules? Ideas, Thoughts ..etc would be greatly appreciated! I figure configuring dispatcher to do this wouldn't be all that difficult... but how would I get my sensors to talk to AHP?

Title: Re: Automating an existing Home security system?
Post by: Charles Sullivan on October 30, 2007, 07:18:06 PM

Quote from: s0urc3f0ur on October 30, 2007, 05:42:14 PM

Is it possible to get AHP to talk to my existing home security system? I would like to have all of my existing window and door sensors act as triggers and have x10dispatcher alert me when something is open. Is this possible without purchasing the x10 security modules? Ideas, Thoughts ..etc would be greatly appreciated! I figure configuring dispatcher to do this wouldn't be all that difficult... but how would I get my sensors to talk to AHP?

Some security consoles have an optional X10 interface - check with your security installer.

Non-X10 security sensors usually transmit on a different frequency and have a more sophisticated encoding than the CM15A understands, so directly receiving signals from your existing security sensors probably won't work.