GE Concord Alarm Panel Plugin

This plugin adds basic integration with the Concord alarm panels.

Features supported:

• Arm / disarm the partitions
• Bypass / unbypass zones
• Enable / disable chime mode
• Activate a panic alarm

The plugin exposes the panel zones as motion sensors, so they can be used in scenes and events.

Installation

Before installing the plugin you must connect the SuperBus 2000 Automation Module to Vera using a RS-232 to USB adapter with a FTDI or Prolific chipset, like ​this one.

After connecting the Automation Module to Vera restart the Luup engine so that MiOS can detect the RS-232 to USB adapter. To check if the adapter was detected:

• on UI4 go to MiOS developers >> Serial port configuration;
• on UI5 go to Apps >> Develop apps >> Serial port configuration.

If Vera detected the adapter that page shouldn't be empty; instead, you should see a device which is usually called ftdi_sio if it has a FTDI chipset.

Next you must configure it:

• set the Baud to 9600;
• set the Data bits to 8;
• set the Parity to Odd;
• set the Stop bits to 1;
• leave the other parameters as they are, unless you know what you're doing.

If the adapter has been detected by MiOS and configured, you can proceed to install the plugin.

UI4

1. Download this package and extract the files.
2. Go MiOS developers >> Luup files and upload the extracted files. Do not check Restart Luup after upload (bottom of the page); if it's checked, uncheck it.
3. Go to Create device and:

• in the Description field enter the name of the device;
• in the UpnpDevFilename field enter D_Concord.xml;
• click Create device.

4. Restart the Luup engine (curved arrows in the top right of the UI).
5. After the Luup engine has restarted refresh the UI (best use <CTRL + F5> to do so).
6. Open the control panel of the newly created device, the Settings tab, and from the Send using drop-down select the serial adapter.
7. Save.

UI5

Configuration

Usage

Basic tasks

• Arm / disarm partition
• Arm / bypass zone
• Enable / disable Chime Mode
• Activate panic alarm

In scenes

• Arm / disarm partition
• Bypass / unbypass zone
• Activate panic alarm