Dsc Serial Protocol Interface
When Doug moved into his new house, he found an old alarm panel set up — but it had no monitoring service any more. Not wanting to pay a monthly fee to have it setup, he decided to try in order to push events to the net!The cool thing is he was actually inspired by another similar project we shared on Hackaday a few years ago entitled. But that project only showed you how to interface the Arduino with the keypad — Doug went the extra mile and interfaced directly with the control board for more features.He’s using an Arduino Uno and an Ethernet breakout board to hook it up to the network. This allows him to send text messages to himself when the alarm system is armed, disarmed, or triggered. All the code in case you also have a DSC 1550 alarm system.It’s a pretty slick hack, so don’t forget to check out the video after the break.Posted in, Tagged, Post navigation. Kevin,I’m using the ENC28J60 for ethernet connectivity. It will run you as little as $5 including shipping if you have Amazon Prime.
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I also have (on github) a full-network-stack library for the Arduino (using the ENC28J60 board). You can find that library here:I’m sending myself text messages via SMTP (email messages), which works well enough. I chose to use a wired ethernet connection (rather than WiFi) for reliability, but you could also consider the ESP8266 WiFi board, which is also pretty cheap.I spent many nights working on reading the keypad signals from the board only to discover the PGM terminal was all I really needed (write-up and description is on github).If you want to have fun emulating the keypad, you can extend the hack further: I have a Raspberry Pi on the network, which has software to emulate the keypad over the network. This allows me to arm/disarm the system while away.