Upgrading your old alarm with Konnected pro and Smartthings

[@tbmpvideo]

Thanks so much for your great video. I just got an estimate for $1800 to retrofit my old alarm system with a one year mandatory subscription to the alarm service. So really all they were doing was putting the new board, connecting and testing and two new keypads and a wireless fire alarm. Seems somewhat pricey to me. Your video is helping me research my options. Good job!

[@bryanwalker7031]

Ditto

[@KarenLesko]

How did you get the buzzer to work? How did you set it up in Smartthings? I can't get mine to work. Everything else works great.

[@luke_8_17]

What did you use for an Siren alarm? If existing, how did you get SmartThings to see the siren sensor?

[@KarenLesko]

Thank you very much for doing this video. It was very helpful.

[@Gabster1]

Watch again from 26:30 to 29:30 I would connect it to Alarm2 Alarm 1 and 2 terminal are the negative poles weird but that is how it is Then in SmartThings you will have a rule If door sensor opens turn Alarm2 for 2 seconds Hope that helps :)

[@mig21m13]

Very nice , but from now you are full dependent to internet connection and cloud system.

[@johndavis318]

Can you use wireless Honeywell doors and motion sensors with Konnects?

[@Gabster1]

Not directly but if you have the receiver interface you can connect from there

[@Kenforce]

Thanks for the video. I have the old landline and need to get rid of it. How did you connect the ethernet cable?

[@Gabster1]

I ran mine in the crawl space up a wall but the board runs on WIFI as well if running a ethernet cable is problematic.

[@bobperez8414]

Very informative. How many zones did you end up with? How helpful were the Konnected people? I can’t find a phone number. Do you have any information on possible keypad substitution options?

[@Gabster1]

@@bobperez8414 had 16 zones ended up grouping a few in series to make it fit in 12 Did not need to contact Konnected I believe they have there contact on the web but may be email form. There is a option to keep your old pad but I chose not to the phone app is fine If you really want you could use a cheap small tablet to do so

[@bobperez8414]

@@Gabster1 thanks

[@rvernet2016]

Do you have to use SmartThings or can you just use the Konnected app?

[@Gabster1]

As far as I know The Konnected app is just a way to sync the status of the various sensors with SmartThings on its own it does not work But you do not need a hub just the free SmartThings app, so a good thing because the SmartThings app is very good. You can also use other platforms like home assistant, Habitat and a few others. Hope that helps

[@rvernet2016]

@@Gabster1 Ah ok. Thanks.

[@vassifaliev8120]

Does it work with your keypad ?

[@Gabster1]

Not a traditional keypad but could use a cheap fire tablet as a dedicated SmartThings for example but try using just your phone as you may find that is all you need. There is also a way to keep your old keypad depending on the model check out the website. I wanted to keep my old keypad but my alarm model is too old not compatible. I am glad I did not keep it, once you ditch the old keypad you do not look back.

[@billrector]

@@Gabster1 This is interesting as they describe the interface as allowing the existing alarm to work as is.

[@jorgeherdocia5120]

I have a DSC Neo Powerseries keypad, how can I keep using that? Is there a way to adapt it?

[@yinkastihl]

Yes you can, you will need to the konnected interface module

[@jorgeherdocia5120]

@@yinkastihl how’s that. Is there a video or some explanation to do that?

[@jfjerez]

Good job