🚫 Link Alarm System to Homeassistant
20251217: The IT 100 is not compatible to the Neo series. the HS2032 has PC-Link pinouts but it appears to be for programming with proprietary communication. There hasn’t been any easy way to link to Home assistant. One solution is to replace the entire alarm system. There is a thread about making DSC Neo units work with Home Assistant. Until there’s a better solution will mark as closed.
20251215: Got around to opening the panel. It looks like the place I need to run the wires into is the same place where a bunch of existing wires are already jammed together. From a visual inspection it looks like the 3 smaller electrical boards are the interfaces for the alarm (legal suite, primary suite, west wing). Rather than jamming my existing cable into that terminal I’ll try to daisy chain from one of the existing interfaces and hope that the increased resistence doesn’t introduce communication problems.
Identified as DSC PowerSeries Neo HS2032
according to copilot one of the options is to get a serial interface hardware to link to a keypad
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