Hi All -
Moved into a house about a year ago with an old GE Concord 4 system. Ironically, the house was built only 5-7 years ago - installed by a large alarm company in our area. Previous home was pre-wired, but I self-installed a DSC 1864 system that worked great and integrated with my HomeSeer steup for automation We used IP based monitoring for years and no issues with it. Wife liked it as well. Both my wife and I significantly dislike the Concord 4 system. DSC has discontinued the Power series in favor of the Neo which has a encrypted and proprietary bus which would prevent me from integrating the system with Homeseer.
I am hoping to make sure my understanding of the Elk system is complete and that I can obtain all of the pieces and parts that I will need.
Current system has 10 zones hardwired, 26 wireless zones (GE/Interlogix, which is 319.5mhz to my understanding), 3 keypads. I also have an "automation module" which allows it to be read by the Homeseer system which works fine.
My goals are:
From what I have read/researched I will need the following components:
Thank you in advance for the help!
Moved into a house about a year ago with an old GE Concord 4 system. Ironically, the house was built only 5-7 years ago - installed by a large alarm company in our area. Previous home was pre-wired, but I self-installed a DSC 1864 system that worked great and integrated with my HomeSeer steup for automation We used IP based monitoring for years and no issues with it. Wife liked it as well. Both my wife and I significantly dislike the Concord 4 system. DSC has discontinued the Power series in favor of the Neo which has a encrypted and proprietary bus which would prevent me from integrating the system with Homeseer.
I am hoping to make sure my understanding of the Elk system is complete and that I can obtain all of the pieces and parts that I will need.
Current system has 10 zones hardwired, 26 wireless zones (GE/Interlogix, which is 319.5mhz to my understanding), 3 keypads. I also have an "automation module" which allows it to be read by the Homeseer system which works fine.
My goals are:
- Fully remove and replace the Concord 4 system - improve usability
- Preserve local integration with homeseer (and possibly HA in the future?) to enable automation events
- Allow for IP based monitoring, as well as notification to cell phones of alarm events (usually done via email to text message)
From what I have read/researched I will need the following components:
- Elk-M1GCB Gold System board (16 zones wired is sufficient) + power block + battery
- Elk-M1DBHR Data Bus Hub for Retrofit (to connect keypads and other modules)
- ELK-M1XRF319 Wireless Transceiver - looks to be compatible with the GE Concord/Interlogix line of 319.5mhz as well as Elk's own product line
- Elk-M1XEP Ethernet Interface (looks like I will need firmware version 2.0.34 or greater)
- Keypads x 3 - TBD
- Siren, etc.
Thank you in advance for the help!