elk m1 entry and exit tracking

[kova3]

I have an Elk m1G in a commercial application. I want to track who arms and who disarms and have it email me. I will setup a rule to save the emails in a folder and they will be conveniently located and timestamped.

THe ELK log has this info but the log will not automatically email either when full or at set times. You must manually empty and/or print. If you create a text message, you cannot track which user armed or disarmed dynamically and send the message. It would be nice to send the user number in a dynamic text message. I vaguely remember there were special keywords separated by special characters (i.e. |user name| )you could put in a text message and then send it but cant find it anymore (amnesia kicking in - was i thinking of another system?).

Any help or ideas appreciated.

 

[mikejrc]

im very interested in doing the same and so far I dont know of any way other than capturing the ASCII messages from the serial port and use some third party software to create the message then send it.

 

[TurboSam]

Have you looked at CQC? The Passthrough command and Elk's RS232 Protocol document should give you what you need to accomplish this (which is far beyond my current abilities)

 

[mikejrc]

i think we are talking about a way to do this without 3rd party software.

 

[electron]

You can track the 'Last User' (I do this to figure out who opened my garage door), but it doesn't seem to be 100% accurate. This is assuming we are talking about the same thing.


[font="'Courier New"]WHENEVER keyfob button 4 (Task 28) IS ACTIVATED[/font]
[font="'Courier New"] AND LAST USER WAS dan (User 3)[/font]
[font="'Courier New"] THEN SEND EMAIL MESSAGE 3 TO [email protected] (Email 3)[/font]

 

[Spanky]

Tom K
Currently, Dans method of knowing who armed via email is the most direct way but you are limited to 16 emails.

A complete log can be retrieved through a central station that will hold all the log information and can send out emails as needed.

 

[mikejrc]

Tom K
Currently, Dans method of knowing who armed via email is the most direct way but you are limited to 16 emails.

A complete log can be retrieved through a central station that will hold all the log information and can send out emails as needed.

is there a way for the M1 to call me and tell me with english words that a particular user has failed to open or close the premises?

yes a central station will have the open/close data but some central stations specially where i live will charge you to monitor openings and closings, usually commercial customers pay for this service.

i wanna be able to know if my step kid came home by a certain time and be notified if she didnt by having the M1 call me.

 

[electron]

I used the M1 to notify me via phone when certain timers expired, so combined with the rules I mentioned above, it should work well. That said, I have gotten e-mails where the 'Last User' value was wrong, not sure why, but something to keep in mind.

 

[Spanky]

One method to get a voice call and tell who armed is to program the Miscellanous voice messages with what you want to say. "User 1 armed", User 2 armed" etc.

Write rules that will dial and send a voice telephone message according to the user that armed:

Whenever the control arms
and user is 1
then dial and send Miscellanous message 1

This is generally how the rules looks but not exactly.

 

[Del91574]

How about an alert to send a message to you when the log is 80% full for you to clear out/download the log in combination of the other rules that can be setup. While a full system log is nice to have, unless it's purged occasionally, it's not an easy thing to go through.