slbillard Posted July 25, 2022 Share Posted July 25, 2022 I am trying to integrate my ISY994i ZW Plus with an alarm.com based 2GIG gc2 alarm system. I want to integrate because I want the ISY to know the arming state of the system. The ISY_ZWave user guide is pretty good on what to do. Unfortunately it defers to the "other" controller for how to accomplish that device's part of the process. I followed the instructions on adding the ISY to an existing network and I believe I have added the ISY controller to the 2GIG controller--the process went to conclusion on both devices and I have a ZW 001 PC Controller Item under the My ISY node. This node is empty. On the 2GIG side I do not see the ISY at all. Any insight or help would be greatly appreciated. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dub Posted July 25, 2022 Share Posted July 25, 2022 Did you join the Z-Wave network as a secondary controller on your ISY?(asking to help clarify for someone that may know more than me. I have a Qolsys with Alarm.com, and joined as a secondary controller. It took several tries and both had to be really close to get the other Z-Wave devices to show. Really close as in 15 ft. I dont know a lot about the Primary/Secondary controller relationship...but it was a pain. I never could see Arm/Disarm status, and didn't really expect too as I think of the Z-Wave side of my Qolsys as different than the alarm functions since they are 2 separate protocols.. I could see Z-Wave device status, but not in real time since it was the secondary controller. I had to query the primary for updates. There is an integration on Home Assistant, but its custom and uses MQTT, but I couldn't get that going with my HA either. I'm hoping someone here knows of a way to do this too.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slbillard Posted July 29, 2022 Author Share Posted July 29, 2022 I did manage to get the alarm.com z wave devices to show on the ISY. It took an ISY "synchronize nodes" to do so. The ISY does not appear in the Alarm.com software so I can't do anything on that side. This meant that I could not make the ISY the primary controller which for me is a deal stopper. Can't add/remove devices with the ISY and have to poll the Alarm.com devices because there the ISY does not get state change notifications. I have given up. I only want to know when the system is armed anyway. I intend to build a bit of bridging hardware so that when the system arms and "turns on" the z wave device it will close a contact wired to an Insteon IOLinc. I am waiting for the relay which should come next week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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