Keep these IoT videos coming, love them!

Makes me want to get into my own house even more every time I see one of these IoT videos... screw apartment living lol _engagement_ keep it up Level1 squad

Loving this series. I've just received 300m of alarm cable and prewired my first couple of sensors.

this has got to be some of the BEST info on youtube for home automation!!! Well done!!!

If you move into a house (or business) that has one of these systems installed you should definitely invest the time and learning curve to get it up to full function. These were typically built into the house at the time of construction, and retrofitting an existing structure with this layer of security would be very expensive. Despite their "legacy" appearance, these are much more robust and foolproof than today's trendy all-WiFi do-it-yourself kits, which are easily jammed or spoofed by professionals. This is an industrial-grade, pro-build, however the one thing you will definitely want to add is camera support, as these typically did not have them at the time.

Watched your Vids, thought it was pretty good. So I decided to swap out my legacy Radionics D2112 and upgrade to the DSC 1832. I also got the expansion module (5400) so I have 16 hard wired zones. I got the Envisalink 4 which is an awesome little add on board. All of my legacy Radionics PIR and Sensors worked just fine. Smoke/Fire is a different story, but they are very old. For a keypad I went with a RFK5500 and a 5501 to replace my legacy keypads. My next and finishing step is to get wireless smoke and a couple of sensors just cause I can with this system. All of this runs to a Rasberry Pi4b running HomeAssistant. Home assistant works flawlessly with this setup and can see all of the sensors. Best of all I can see and run the whole system from my iPhone from anywhere. Oh yeah, I removed the middle man, NO SUBSCRIPTIONS needed, Yeah me! Good recommendation!

I'm really enjoying these videos. Now, bare with me. I have a Ring alarm system.. I KNOW, I know, it's the worst thing in the universe. I was paying $180 every 2 months for ADT, and the entire Ring package came up on Woot for sale for $180. It's unmonitored so for a single $180 payment I replaced my $180 every 2 months bill. It was easy to set up and it's easy to monitor. One day I might switch to a more, home rolled solution but until then I like watching videos on what I should have done instead.

Awesome content and educational please keep making these kind of videos.

Great content as always, starting to get into home automation but there's only so much I can do in an apartment.

Will you guys be making a Better IoT playlist? These are all amazing!

Awesome content!

HOME ALONE ENGAGEMENT

"the best kind of brain tumor"

Thank you :)

Meanwhile when I worked for an alarm company they just installed the end of line resistors in the alarm panel. All of them. Because they were lazy.

Just a note You DO NOT want to use CAT wire for the panel to control board. RS485 does not work well with twisted wires But the main difference between between the cables and normal cat cabling would be the twists. Alarm cabling doesn't come with twisted pairs and is also easier to bend around corners or stick to walls

Wouldn’t a rack mount form factor make sense? I haven’t really come across any however

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One question. Does the rfk5500 handle up to 64 sensors? I think I read that you need the rfk5564 otherwise you are limited to 32 sensors

Thanks for the video! Suggestion: reduce the use of "basically". Filler word that doesn't add anything.

I believe the power series is eol now in place of neo.

You should take a look at a panel like Vanderbild SPC. A lot more fun stuff to do with it

Or if you just run a 8/12 core wire to your keypad... you can run a few sensors from your control board through your keypad to the sensors (you don't actually connect all the wires to the keypad but just use the housing to hold the join that then runs to the sensors nearby)

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If you have more than one keypad, does the wiring from both connect into the same ports in the box? One problem with door sensors is when your cats are smart enough to open the door into the garage.

i'm here looking on how to connect the dsc to home assistant and is the thing you did not show in your two videos

I watched but missed how you are getting the data from the DSC panel...

Are the IMPASSA keypads compatible with the power series?

If I hooked this up with the same discipline that I setup the rest of my home automation system I would have a CA certificate not renew and then the fire department would never get called haha. Or it would renew but the fingerprint used for device auth would be based on the old cert not the ca cert and then the same thing would happen.

Someone needs to do for Alarm Systems what Rachio did for the Sprinkler System.

What's your feeling on X10 or Homeplug?

Shoot. I was really hoping for the automation integration via the API.

Am i the only one thinking there aren't many people looking to build a PC with an intel CPU these days?

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Level1Techs, searching one video... where compare different LINUX os which one are best gaming OS. Can't be Ubuntu every situation :D *edit I install manjaro

ADT service costs...

I was looking to get an old DSC system, but it seems they are quite hard to get here in AT. While looking around the web I stumbled across this arduino based open home security gateway from Czech Republic: openhomesecurity.blogspot.com/p/buy.html?m=1#!/OHS-2-0-4/p/209447163 Couldn't resist ordering one to try. Maybe this could be a great open source altetnative to the name-brand ones? 🤔

Home assistant is the best brain tumor

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neo means incompatible ... *dsc sales rep dies*

Point of note I stopped right when you said not to buy the Neo. The Power series you are showcasing is completely out of date, Neo is the next generation of alarm panel and features are 1000x better than the old last generation PowerSeries. I am a certified technician and have been installing systems for 17yrs+ if you don't understand the technology don't talk about the technology because you are giving much misinformation. There are several key programming sections which will completely lock out a panel from anyone else, a fuse does nothing to stop from being re-programmed. Duress code feature is only available for proper use if actually being properly monitored with an actual alarm company, it cannot just send information over to the police. The installer code is for full programming of the system not the master code. The ADT code as you state is there only if it has already been actively setup for monitoring at some point. If you do not purchase the alpha keypad for this system there is almost no way a standard person would know all the beeps to understand what they are programming.

Or you can just get a simplisafe