What Alarm

Hello,

I'm currently installing a c-bus system for me brother
quite a large job - for me anyway!

I'm looking to source an alarm that will work with the c-bus system.
I would like the touch screens to be able to arm/disarm the alarm system.
any ideas as to what system I should look at?

TIA, Aaron

 

Obviously one that has a cbus interface would be better and that way there is an opportunity for two way, ie. you can arm and disarm from cbus and you can get the alarm to trigger all the lights on if the alarm goes off for example.

Having said that you can achieve the same effect quite easily with just about any alarm system that has some decent programming (concept etc).

You can just set an input up to arm the system when on and disarm the system when off and put that input onto a cbus relay.

Turn the relay on and the alarm will do whatever you programmed it to do (arm, disarm, dance a jig etc). It can't tell the difference in that instance between the cbus relay and say a reed switch tripping.

To feed back out of the system you can use a relay on the alarm panel and send that to a aux input or bus coupler to trigger the lights under an alarm scenario.

As I said, a cbus enabled one is a bit easier, but the above is not that hard and works well.