AD2PI and Vista20p - Please Help

[kevin]

If nobody answers by Monday, I'll do it at the office on Monday and post an exact "step by step" but I would think these videos would put you in the right direction where you're just substituting values they're using.

[wideglidejrp]

That is correct, but the challenge is to know exactly **which** values to substitute. Thanks for your continued support on this.

[kevin]

Values are different for each type of zone, if I recall you would want to set this up as a "wired zone" but this I would have to verify

Set to Confirm - No for wired
Zone Number - 09
Zone Type - 2 for Aux Wired
InputType - 2 for Aux Wired
Program Alpha - No

If this doesn't work, you can easily go into programming and change or delete the zone until it does.

[kevin]

So the process is as such for the zone expander for your specific case is:

Enable Zone Expander in AlarmDecoder config
Enter *56 while in programming mode - create an Aux Wired zone
For Set to Confirm, choose 0
For Zone Number choose 09

For Zone Type choose one of: 00 =

Code: Select all

00 =Not used                        07 = 24-Hr Audible        20 = Arm STAY*
01 = Entry/exit #1                 08 = 24-Hr Aux              21 = Arm AWAY*
02 = Entry/exit #2                 09 = Fire                         22 = Disarm*
03 = Perimeter                     10 = Interior w/Delay
23 = No Alarm Resp*
04 = Interior Follower           12 = Monitor Zone         24 = Silent Burglary
05 = Trouble Day/Alarm Night  14 = Carbon Monoxide  77 = Keyswitch
06 = 24-Hr Silent                  16 = Fire w/Verify         81 = AAV Monitor Zone


See manual section 3-3 to see definitions of these

For Partition, unless you have more than 1 partition, choose 1
Report Code you can enter 00 to disable or just use the zone number 09
InputType - 2 Aux Wired
Program ALPHA descriptors if you want to

Once this zone is added, your home automation system is responsible for watching output from your device(insteon) and issuing the fault_zone and clear_zone messages to the AD2 to fault the zone and trigger the alarm actions.


You can test directly on the AD2 (ser2sock) by issuing the L command
L0091 to fault
L0090 to restore

[wideglidejrp]

I am not getting anywhere with the virtual zone problem. More importantly, I now cannot even connect to the Pi. The IP address of alarm decoder on my net is 192.168.1.106. When I go there or to alarmdecoder.local I get...

Forbidden Page
It looks like this was the result of:
no permission

[kevin]

Can you SSH it ok? Is the ser2sock stream still running? Have you tried clearing cookies/cache etc?

[mathewss]

I am building a howto video on this but FYI its L091 and L090 for zone 09 it does not support 3 digit zones

Re
Sean M

[wideglidejrp]

I tried ssh 192.168.1.106. It asked for a password. I don't what that is. I don't know how to determine if sersock stream is running. How do I do that?

[kevin]

Default passwords are here: http://www.alarmdecoder.com/wiki/index.php/Raspberry_Pi

ser2sock stream can be accessed by telnetting to port 10000 of the pi

"Forbidden" errors usually only happen when there's an authentication issue or a cookie/session issue - the first step would be to clear all your cookies/cache/sessions in your browser.

[wideglidejrp]

I went to a different Mac on the same net and tried again. Same problem with the permission.