Konnected.io project

1. wall-mounted tablet to run Home Assistant app
2. yes

I made my own replacement for the keypad and removed them. Simple LED using first pair of wires and buzzer with the second. Mounted those to blank outlet covers with a hole drilled in the front. I can send pics tomorrow. So each door has an alert/reminder that it’s armed and buzzer as a door chime.

Uh, the phone line was most definitely not to sms the owner. The phone line was so that the alarm panel can call the alarm company to tell them something went wrong. From there, the alarm company will either try to contact the owner and/or the police.

This is one of the many reasons why almost every single alarm product only works with a subscription. And considering that LCD screen looks ancient, I'm pretty sure that alarm product is from at least 2 decades ago. Back when you had to use physical wires for each alarm component and there was no such thing as smartphones.

Of course, I could be wrong. All that old stuff gets mixed together in my head.

I just installed one of these. Actually, my board died and they replaced it. I'm using 10 zones and 1 siren, but I can't seem to figure out if a 30w siren is too much for its power specs.

I’ve used a raspberry pi kiosk to show homeassistant next to my door. Good way to see cameras as well before I open the door.

Absolutely love the konnected.io platform. It's been fantastic.

Grab a fire tablet or cheaper Samsung and throw home assistant or whatever your smart home platform is.

1st question:

They sell everything you need (minus the tablet) to replace the old alarm panel with any tablet of your choice. Here is the 12V to 5V USB converter to take power from the old panel & make it work for a tablet. And here are the tablet wall mounts that you’ll need to get it attached to the wall.

Second question:

Yes

EDIT: I see you have a battery backup in there as well, so you may want this

You can use a Fire tablet with the actiontiles that connects to a google smart thing. Look at the Konnext pro.

Gotta love when technology blends seamlessly into our homes and becomes just another part of the furniture!

I know it's not Konnected.io, but here's another option for those reading through.

I use an ElkM1 Gold system. You can attach traditional keypads using existing wiring, has pretty good support, and native Home Assistant integration. Yes, it's pretty old school. But it works for those who want a more traditional looking setup for spouse approval factor.

Looks like my to-do list just got longer! Thanks, Konnected.io!

Update: the wires didn't add up, so I had a closer look at the motion sensors... Turns out they are wireless...

In regards to the phone line. You can unplug it. It won’t cause any problems. If you still use a landline, just check there’s a dial tone when you unplug it. You could even plug a phone into the line and see if it has a dial tone. It may have been a separate line disconnected when they moved out.

When you open the panel, do you hear the panel making a click noise? The tamper should alarm and dial out if it is still programmed to do so. The clicking would be the dialler working. If you unplug it while still using the Bosch and it’s supposed to dial out, you may get a trouble alarm because it has failed to do so.

Never used or heard of a konnected.io so not sure how they work, but are they a replacement for your existing panel? As in they use your existing hardwired sensors connected to the new panel? By the looks of that panel all of your sensors are wireless and therefore won’t be compatible as they are designed for the Bosch via rf3212e receiver?

Looks like my boring light switches just got jealous!

I just did this with our ancient system. I replaced the keypads with Ring Alarm Keypads v2 which connected to my Home Assistant server via Zwave and stay in sync with the Alarmo custom integration using this Blueprint. It all works great and was much easier than expected to switch over.

Now, one thing that seems really different for your system than mine is that it appears that all of your sensors are wireless, and the only thing connected to the alarm panel is the RF Receiver (connected to the "input" terminal, to the left of ZN1). My system was old enough that all of my sensors were hardwired to the panel, so moving them to Konnected was easy. I don't know if Konnected will work with your existing alarm system RF wireless sensors. I would check with the Konnected support staff to be sure.

You may need to replace the sensors with Home Assistant compatible door/window/motion sensors, but you could still use Konnected to manage the siren?

If you do have a land line unplug that cable to the panel and make sure the phones still work. The terminals marked Telco In / Out are used so that the land line is intercepted when the alarm blows, then the line is disconnected from all the internal phones so a burglar can't interfere with the system dialing out to the monitoring service. Obviously from the pic those terminals aren't being used but it's possible the single line coming into the panel is set up that way internally. The click you hear when it blows is probably the internal relay on the board that disconnects the phones in the house when needed.