Tim.Sto Posted August 2 Posted August 2 I'm in over my head, but I'm learning a lot an enjoying all that I can do with EISY. Next is to get my dozen Insteon sensors to work with my new ELK alarm system. I purchased the PG3 Elk node, and I have it synchronized with EISY. I just cannot figure out how to make my Insteon sensors into inputs for the ELK zones. I'm certain I am missing something simple, but I cannot find it on forums anywhere.
paulbates Posted August 2 Posted August 2 (edited) Elk is a closed, supervised system and directly adding Insteon sensors isn't possible. The closest you could get, from what I know, is adding an Insteon 2450 IO linc as open/close contacts to the elk's dry contacts input (if you have that). However, the 2450 dry contacts output continue to be vulnerable to the dreaded Insteon "All on", and would not be recommended for an important alarm system function. You could write iox programs on eisy to evaluate insteon sensors and elk activity from the plugin and take action, depending what you want to accomplish. Edited August 2 by paulbates
Tim.Sto Posted August 2 Author Posted August 2 6 minutes ago, paulbates said: You could write iox programs on eisy to evaluate insteon sensors and elk activity from the plugin and take action, depending what you want to accomplish. I was afraid that would be the answer for this, and I would have to buy and (even worse) install all new sensors. As for now, how would you use a program for ELK to trigger an input? I can't seem to find a way...even if it's not the best solid way.
Solution Tim.Sto Posted August 3 Author Solution Posted August 3 Follow up. After restarting the EISY a few times, the zones started showing up in my device list, and I can now write "trigger" status to the zones from EISY. I'm not sure why they didn't show up the first few days and few times I restarted and connected to ELK, but problem solved for now. Thanks.
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