Matt G. Watson

Synopsis

This HowTo is a guide on using Asterisk’s AlarmReceiver() application to make Asterisk act as an Ademco Contact ID alarm monitoring station. In short this application is capable of receiving calls from your alarm panel every time an event occurs on your system. This is essentially a complete home grown self-monitored alarm setup.

I should mention upfront that this application is not approved by the Underwriter’s Laboratory and as such, any insurance benefits you have from having an alarm system will probably be null and void with your insurance company if you go down this path. Personally, I think alarm systems in homes that do not utilize cellular connections are useless anyways. Landlines are too easy to disconnect on most homes… rendering the alarm monitoring useless.

Additionally, this guide assumes that your system is already programmed for monitored and that you just want to interface it with Asterisk. (more…)

Project Home Phone continued on tonight, Part 1 was just getting the BIX mount up on the wall.

The goal for tonight was pretty simple, I wanted to get the RJ11 lines in the house terminated on the BIX block. I got one of them done… the rest are really just a matter of connecting a couple more wires. I got kind of side-tracked with a little programming on my DSC Power832 alarm system - which was the first device I wanted to get terminated on the block.

Anyhow, here are some pics:

Project Home Phone - Part 2!
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