Triggering ELK's CO Alarm Using ISY CO Sensors

[grtaylor]

I'm using First Alert CO detectors and the Smoke Bridge to connect them to ISY. That's all fine, no issues.

 

But I'd like to trigger Elk's CO alarm if possible - for Central Station monitoring for one, but for showing CO as the reason for the Elk alarm on keypads.

 

Was wondering if I could create a NO zone on Elk, defined as Type=CO and then use a program in ISY to trip the zone if the CO bridge reports ON.

 

Would that do it? Any reason that's a bad idea?

[MWareman]

 

 

Any reason that's a bad idea?

ISY and Insteon are not UL certified for safety of life applications. I'd look to the native solutions for Elk if you are trying to have a Central station monitor CO (and smoke) detectors, and then have Elk report it to ISY for anything else you want to do.

[grtaylor]

Thanks for the reply. Fair point, but the CO alarms will sound locally themselves, I'm not relying on this to alert anyone in the house that there's CO present - just report it to a tablet display and Central station.

[CZIflyer]

Did you ever figure out it this is possible?  And how to program?  I saw this post from a few years ago about trying to have the Insteon smoke bridge and ISY  press the F key (fire Alarm) on the ELK keypad. But the post didn't say how he programmed.  (see below)

 

 I am trying to set it up for a fire alarm to be sent to the alarm monitor company.  How would you program this action?  I imported lights from ISY into the ELK.  Would you program the ELK or ISY?  Do you need the ELK module on the ISY?

 

I know the other option would be to buy the wireless adapter and ELK wireless smoke detector, but wanted to see if I can work with the smoke bridge.

 

 

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Posted 20 April 2013 - 02:01 PM

 

 

 I ended up programming the main keypad to activate a fire alarm with the press of one of the F keys.  I then wrote a program in the ISY to press that F key when the smoke bridge is active"