ISY controlling ADT Pulse Arm/Dis-arm

[Greg]

I have looked on the forums for an answer to my question but most of the questions and answers surrounding ADT Pulse are about the ZWave intergration.  All I want to do is have the ADT system arm itself from a program within ISY, as I seem to always forget to turn the alarm on since we got the Pulse system, as we have to arm the system from an app on our phones.

 

I currently have a program that I trigger through Echo Dot that I call Bedtime that turns off the TV, lights, etc in the living room and turns on a set of lights on the stairs and in the hallway, it also turns on a light in the bedroom.  After 10 minutes it turns off the Stairs and the hallway lights, giving me time enough to go downstairs and let the dogs out before going to bed.  It would be nice if I could also have it arm the ADT Pulse system after that 10 minute mark, so I don't have to remember to turn it on myself.

 

Thanks in advance for any ideas on how to do this.

 

I guess I should mention I have ZWave and Network modules on my ISY and am running on Version 5 if there are features there that could be used.

 

Thanks,

 

Greg

[KeviNH]

I'm extremely leery of a cloud-tethered system having the ability to arm/disarm a security system.   What I do is detect when the alarm system is armed, and that causes an ISY program to run which does the timed shutdown of lights, HVAC setback, etc.   So I always remember to arm the alarm because arming is what tells the ISY to go into "goodnight" mode.

 

 

The Pulse features for Z-wave seems to be mostly distinct from arm/disarm?    I see IFTTT integrations, but they all use the arm status email notifications sent from Pulse to trigger IFTTT; that's a one-way feed out of Pulse into your email, can only react to arm/disarm/etc, not control the alarm system.

 

For older alarm brains there is Honlink.  I do not know if  Eyez-On EVL3 works with ADT Pulse?

 

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Pro-Tip:  If you are dead set on giving a third party or cloud service your alarm system code, check whether you can create a "Babysitter Code" and expose that code only.

[Greg]

I guess, I should have said that the DOT's "Bedtime" command is sent to the ISY, and the ISY does all the heavy lifting.  "Bedtime" only sets a variable in the ISY that then triggers all the automation.  When we had the keypad mounted on the wall just outside the bedroom door it was easy to remember to punch the button on the way into the bedroom.  Now with having only the mobile app, I don't have that visual reminder and  have to remember to get into the app each night after getting into bed.  I suppose it will become routine at some point but right now it is frequently forgotten when tired and ready to sleep.

[KeviNH]

ADT removed your physical keypads when you went to Pulse?   Maybe you can add an ADT-branded Keychain Remote or a SmartThings fob?

 

I see last year ADT announed " ADT Pulse skill for Alexa", allows arming via Alexa:   

[Greg]

There is still a physical keypad, and I guess I can move it around, but unlike our old adt system in which the keypad was powered over the wire to the panel, the new keypad is ZWave to another box, and requires it to be powered through a wall wart.  We don't have power where the old keypad was, or anywhere that could be reached by the wall wart power supply.

[nato595]

On 2/8/2018 at 9:13 AM, KeviNH said:

What I do is detect when the alarm system is armed, and that causes an ISY program to run

Hi Kevin,

I came across this thread in searching for basically what you describe.  I'm really curious how you have ISY detect when you ADT system is Armed/Disarmed??  I have an ISY system, a lot of Insteon components, and just one or two Z-Wave things as well.  I'm looking to automate auctions in ISY, but based on the status of the ADT system.  Any help is much appreciated!

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10 hours ago, nato595 said:

Hi Kevin,

I came across this thread in searching for basically what you describe.  I'm really curious how you have ISY detect when you ADT system is Armed/Disarmed??  I have an ISY system, a lot of Insteon components, and just one or two Z-Wave things as well.  I'm looking to automate auctions in ISY, but based on the status of the ADT system.  Any help is much appreciated!

There is Python-based open source sw programs available online that can be used to build a little alarm server on a RPi.  An Envisalink is also required to network enable the ADT system.  Basically the alarm server triggers variables in the ISY through the network module which can trigger ISY programs.