RE: HA and Alarm Panels

[Mike Griffiths <mike@xxxxxxx>]

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I use Ace

It works a treat and the support Dan gives is brilliant

I tell HomeVision who has un-set the alarm so first in the house has it setup the way they like it

When we are all in bed HomeVision tells comfort and it sets the Alarm down stairs

When we leave the house we alarm it and Comfort tells HomeVision to turn everything off and go into  random light mode when it is dark

 

I use the Comfort detectors to turn lights on via HomeVision which does all of my X10 control

Leaving comfort to look after the Alarm

 

Ace Client  also acts as House control on all of my PC's controlling Hifi lights etc

 

Its very flexible and quite easy to set up

You can get HomeVision to talk directly to Comfort but I ran into trouble with the buffering of commands

ACE seems to solve this problem

 

Hopefully HomeAutomator will also do the same

Mike

 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Kenneth Watt [mailto:kennwatt@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 13 June 2002 09:38
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx Subject: RE: [ukha_d] HA and Alarm Panels

 

Mike,

 

Are you using HV & Comfort together? If you are how do you find it and how easy is it to get the two talking?

 

K.

 

(Who wants Comfort to integrate with HV)

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Griffiths [mailto:mike@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 13 June 2002 08:49
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx Subject: RE: [ukha_d] HA and Alarm Panels

 

If you can access who has set or unset the alarm, you can feed more info into your HA schedule

Comfort makes it very easy to bring out all info to the serial port

This info can then be used by HomeVision without compromising the basic Alarm system

Mike

 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Shane Harrison [mailto:shane.harrison@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 13 June 2002 08:40
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx Subject: [ukha_d] HA and Alarm Panels

 

Hi there,

 

I would like to ask the group about split functionality between between a pure HA controller (Homevision springs to mind :-)  ) and a security system that has HA control functions in it - specifically Comfort or Genesis ?

 

Clearly the security panel performs security and I know the comfort system has the telephone functionality.  The question is really about the features that could be performed by either.  The reason for the question. ?  Well I am seriously considering the Homevision system with a Caddx NX-8 but I know a number of you have a Comfort and at least Frank has a Genesis.  Frank's site talks about doing some control with the security product and some with homevision - I just don't understand why, why not leave the HA control to the HA controller and the security to the security controller  - are there significant limitations with homevision that preclude this ?

 

Cheers

Shane

 

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