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The Visonic Powermax Plugin for Vera

Visonic produces the Powermax alarm panel series (Powermax, Powermax+, PowermaxExpress, PowerMaxPro and PowermaxComplete). This plugin allows you to control the alarm panel via Vera (arm/disarm) and allows you to use the Powermax sensors (movement, door contact, ...) within Vera. For example, you can use Powermax sensors in Vera scenes.

The Powermax provides support for a serial interface that can be connected to Vera. The serial interface is not installed by default but can be ordered from any Powermax vendor for about £30 (called the Visonic RS-232 Adaptor Kit). Visonic does not provide a specification of the RS232 protocol and, thus, the plugin uses the available protocol specification given in ​http://www.domoticaforum.eu/viewtopic.php?f=68&t=6581.

Development Status

Supported and ested features:

  • Supported Panels: Powermax+ and PowerMaxPro are confirmed to work
  • Supported Sensors: Motion Sensors, Door/Window Contacts
  • Supported Functions: Arm, ArmHome, Disarm

To do list:

  • Sensors: Fire Detector, Flood Detector, ...
  • Functions: display/decode all possible events, read eventlog, handle alarms
  • Specials: allow sending X10 commands via Vera, make keyfob buttons available in vera

Starting Points

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