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How do I sent a message into the AD2Pi via the python alarmdecoder library? I want to pass in the deactivation alarm passcode. I'm looking for some guidance like... use this method to send the message and code xxxx as an argument.

Thanks

Hi,

Here is the documentation for the python library which describes exactly what each piece is http://alarmdecoder.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

But it would be something like this

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import time
from alarmdecoder import AlarmDecoder
from alarmdecoder.devices import SerialDevice

# Configuration values
SERIAL_DEVICE = '/dev/ttyUSB0'  #change this to your device
BAUDRATE = 115200

def main():
    """
    Example application that opens a serial device and prints messages to the terminal.  Sends 12341 to panel
    """
    try:
        # Retrieve the specified serial device.
        device = AlarmDecoder(SerialDevice(interface=SERIAL_DEVICE))

        # Set up an event handler and open the device
        device.on_message += handle_message

        # Override the default SerialDevice baudrate since we're using a USB device
        # over serial in this example.
        with device.open(baudrate=BAUDRATE):
            while True:
                device.send('12341')   # send 12341 to the alarm panel through the device
                time.sleep(1)

    except Exception, ex:
        print 'Exception:', ex

def handle_message(sender, message):
    """
    Handles message events from the AlarmDecoder.
    """
    print sender, message.raw

if __name__ == '__main__':
main()


I had the device.send() in another section of the code. After moving it under the while loop, it worked perfectly. Thanks!