qolsys alarms

[themlruts]

Ok just picked up one of these new qolsys alarms for the house.  http://www.qolsys.com/page_device_IQPanel.html

Unit is touch screen

zwave

WiFi

Cell
SD card slot
 Unit is built on android.  

 

Some of things i am looking to do.

Since I can send email when the device is armed and disarmed and...

I would love to be able to show the status of the alarm system in  mobilinc.  Example when armed it would send an email to isy saying armed and i could control a variable and the same disarmed.  

Thoughts???

 

It is a 7" screen and it has a slide show feature.  You can put in your sd card and have it show those pictures.  My thought is this... Can you write to those wifi sd cards?  I was thinking i could write pictures from my security cameras (unifi) to the wifi sd card and have the slide show be the camera images.

I know its a shot in the dark just a thought.

 

Let me know what you think.

Thanks
Mike

 

 

 

[KeviNH]

Ok just picked up one of these new qolsys alarms for the house.  http://www.qolsys.com/page_device_IQPanel.html

...

Since I can send email when the device is armed and disarmed and...

I would love to be able to show the status of the alarm system in  mobilinc.  Example when armed it would send an email to isy saying armed and i could control a variable and the same disarmed.  Thoughts???

 

Technically it is possible to create a separate mechanism to receive the email, parse it, and then make a call to the ISY, that is a lot of indirection, and is likely to be unreliable and slow.  Expect minutes between disarming the alarm and the variable being updated.

 

It looks like Qolsys can be configured to turn a Z-Wave light on/off when the alarm is armed/disarmed. You could then have the ISY react to the device being turned on;  if your ISY has Z-Wave you could make it a secondary controller, or maybe use a Synchrolinc?

 

 

It is a 7" screen and it has a slide show feature.  You can put in your sd card and have it show those pictures.  My thought is this... Can you write to those wifi sd cards?  I was thinking i could write pictures from my security cameras (unifi) to the wifi sd card and have the slide show be the camera images.

 

The most common WiFi SD cards do not support sending files TO the card, but this appears to be possible with Toshiba FlairAir.    That said, it is likely the IQpanel caches the list of files from the card and may not display new files immediately when you upload.   Would be interesting to try!