Hi,
My old DSC alarm system recently died and I am trying to figure out if I can use HA on RPi to replace it. For home insurance purposes, the alarm system needs to be monitored by a monitoring service. I can’t find any information on HA alarms notifying alarm monitoring services. Has anyone set this up? How?
A bit more background for the curious:
I am currently still on SmartThings, but I don’t like it. I am testing the old alarm system’s wired door sensors with the konnected-io software on a nodeMCU connected to the SmartThings hub over WiFi. It seems possible to get this monitored by a monitoring company, but it frequently seems to miss especially door closing events.
From what I see on the forums, it looks like it is possible to connect the wired sensors to the RPi GPIO ports with a pull-up or pull-down resistor. So that would allow me to take another potential point of failure out of the loop.
However, the big sticking point is how to get this monitored by a 24/7 monitoring company?
Thanks for your help in advance!