Before I commit to replacing our existing alarm, I’d like to put the board through its paces in a lab test kind of environment. Unfortunately I don’t have a spare PIR or siren - although even if I did both would probably be annoying to test with. What I do have is a bucket of electronic components - LEDs, resistors, push buttons and the like.
Can someone advise the minimum set up required to explore all features of the board? For example by connecting an LED to the siren output and buttons to the sensor inputs? The plan is to run it standalone in the main, although I would probably also integrate it with HA too.
FWIW I also have a Wiegand keypad that I’d need up and running before going live with it, so this would give me a chance to set that up too.
You don’t really need that much to test with. Normally when I’m doing development/testing on the bench, I just use a few jumper wires to manually open/close the circuits to simulate an open/close switch. It’s as simple as connecting a wire from Zone 1 for example to G – door/window is closed, then disconnect it – door/window is open. You could use a push-button or simple SPST switch if you wanna get fancy.
For the siren, you don’t really need anything physically hooked up. There is a red ALARM1 and ALARM2 indicator on the board that you can use to visually confirm that the alarm output is hot. If you have a 12V LED you could use that, too.
A Wiegand keypad is going to take up two zones for the data, plus red & black for 12V power drawn from the AUX terminals. We don’t yet support Wiegand in our app configurator, but it’s on my todo list to start adding soon.
I realised that the Wiegand stuff is experimental - that’s why I thought I’d play with it in the lab before. Will of course report back on any success.