I bought one of these but not from this seller and a gender changer. As I mentioned I had to pull the wires out and swap them around but still not 100% sure if I have it correct as I am only 1/2 working.
Nesscomms will not work unless you are in installer mode irrespective of cable connection
Hi.
Issue is i cannot see any of the ness components on the dashboard at all. It looks like it is definitely something with my HA config rather than hardware, as i have quickly created a new Hass.io server and added the same code (as below) which worked first goā¦
ness_alarm:
host: 10.0.1.25
port: 2401
scan_interval:
# At least one of these must be specified:
days: 0
hours: 0
minutes: 0
seconds: 10
milliseconds: 0
zones:
- name: Laundry
id: 1
- name: Front Door
id: 2
- name: Dinning Room
id: 3
- name: Up Stairs
id: 4
I am able to receive and send info to the panel from the dashboard using the Hass.io server.
Next i need to try the same with a fresh build of Hassbian as that is what i use for my instance (i created a Hass.io instance because i wanted to see what it looked like)
I have this up and running. Have set the config in NESS - P199E (v8) and my PIRās all update great.
However I cannot work out how to ARM and DISARM the unit.
The screen to arm/disarm shows the state however I can never arm or disarm using the code
Is there a trick to this?
Is there any additional config to enable this?
Thanks
Silly question did you enter your arm/disarm code? The Arm Home and Arm Away are greyed out until you enter a code.
Matt
Yes i did enter the code
Thanks OzGav, you were right.
To tidy off my query, here is the working pinout for the DX8d to USR-TCP232-302
And further to this, the readily available āmini gender changerā will not work without swapping the blue and white wire. I have used bullet connectors so it can be changed back with ease if required.
Thanks Nick for the awesome HA integration. All is working well!
Hi,
If you are still having issues with the Arm Disarm, my dashboard looks slightly different to yours, if this helpsā¦
To add to my earlier posts, I am having A LOT of difficulty installing Hassbian from scratch so have not been able to test the Ness component in that yet. the screenshot is using a fresh install of HassOS.
Hi Aumatt,
Can I please ask, did you end up getting the status display sorted, ie where it shows Armed Away when you have armed the system in Home mode?
Thanks
No, Nik hasnt updated the component in awhile. As I run my own software also Iām not too fussed but would be nice to have it show the correct state.
Hi all. Iām coming to this party late (Iām replacing an very old DAS alarm system with a Ness D8XD) and Iād like to clear up a couple of things if somebody can help me.
My alarm system is mounted quite a distance from my RPi thatās running HA. I see that there was once some attempt to use ESP8266 modules to get serial from Ness panel to HA via WiFi, but it failed for some reason.
If anybody still here was involved, why did it fail ?
I donāt think it failed we just didnt get it up and running before Nick came up with his solution and we just jumped onto that!
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Does anyone know if there is any way to downgrade the version of NessClient on Hassio? I would like to try version 0.9.9 but the command pip install --upgrade ānessclient[cli]==0.9.9ā will not run on Hassio.
thanks
Iāve just hooked my D8x up tonight with an old ESP8266 ESP01 512KB module I had lying around. Seems to work fine if youāre happy to connect on port 23 rather than 2401. I flashed it with esp-link firmware and it seems to be working happily so far.
Good to hear.
Iāve flashed a NodeMCU with ESPlink also and wired up an RS232 to TTL module to it, but not yet fitted to the panel for a test.
Did you use a RS232 converter between the D8X board and the ESP ?
I gather the board is not TTL because it needs a proper USB-RS232 to work to a PC.
Yes, I just used a MAX3232 module (https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/1X-Mini-RS232-to-TTL-Converter-Module-Board-F1M5/323793053638) to do the level conversion. So far so goodā¦
And hereās the finished product (apart from adding a heatsink to the power module). A little rough, I know, but itās spending the rest of its days in a dark enclosure that nobody sees. All up, about $5 in ESP, RS232, and power modules. Itās worked solidly for a few days now, and despite the small antenna, reports an RSSI of -66.
The only thing to remember for anyone going down the esp-link path is that the telnet port is hard coded to port 23. Thereās no native mechanism or config to set it to port 2401.
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Hey @cryptelli, was great to chat with you last night in person. I have pushed a beta version of the nessclient dependency to pip, I canāt quite remember how your setup exactly worked, but is it possible for you to install a pre-release version of nessclient into your environment and give a potential fix a try?
The release attempts to resolve contention over the connection by wrapping all writes in a lock, which hopefully might solve your issue.
You can install it via pip:
pip install nessclient=0.9.16b1
Let me know how you go.
This is a feature Iām looking into adding, after having a chat with @cryptelli last night about it. Iāll see how I go over the coming weeks - Itās on the TODO list!
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Been a long delay due to other tasks getting in the way, but have now made good progress trying out a nearly solderless DIY WiFi into HA solution.
So similar to DoubleYou Wayne above, Iāve used open source ESP-Link firmware loaded on an ESP8266 board, and fed itās serial into a TTL to RS232 signal converter, then into the Ness panel.
The hardware is a $5 Ebay NodeMCU plus a $2 TTL-RS232 module, plus a handful of dupont style hookup cables.
I added the Ness component to HA config (with the IP of my ESP-Link) , and setup the alarm panel and binary sensor entities in a view, and it fired up just as Waynes did.
I added a LED for WiFi connection status and a Serial activity LED in the ESP-Link web GUI as well.
I have it running via external 5V USB power on the NodeMCU right now, but will put a 5V regulator on the NESSās serial connector 12V supply pin line and run it from that soon. The TTL-RS232 module uses 3.3V from the NodeMCU.
HA responds fairly fast to the binary sensor (alarm system zones), and I can set Arm Home and Alarm Away from the HA Alarm Panel view fine (like in Mikkaatās panel view above).
What I canāt do yet is see how to disarm via HA. What did I miss ?
