Monitoring Ness/ELK Alarm Zone Status

[jamesng]

Hi

We run a Ness (aka ELK) DX16X alarm here which as an IP connection.  The status reporting and control protocol is documented at the following link

http://www.nesscorporation.com/Software/...otocol.pdf


I can find integrations using this protocol for other platforms such as the following https://nessclient.readthedocs.io/en/lat...mples.html  and https://community.home-assistant.io/t/ne.../23285/163 but nothing for LogicMachine as yet.


I've started writing a script to connect the the system and can receive data ok, but need some help with getting the specific info and processing the responses in LUA.

Code:

socket = require("socket").tcp()
  socket:connect('192.168.1.150', 2401)
  socket:send(command .. '\n')
  res = socket:receive('*l')
  log('\nNESSCommand: ' .. command .. '\nNESSResponse : ' .. res)

Initially I'm interested in mapping the state of each zone back to objects in Logic Machine (after sending a status update command) from a resident script but haven't been able to figure out the protocol as yet.

Does anyone have a script that can do this?   Initially the is the info that I'm keen to track


0/210/1  Sealed/Unsealed state of Zone 1
0/210/2  Sealed/Unsealed state of Zone 2
0/210/3  Sealed/Unsealed state of Zone 3
0/210/4  Sealed/Unsealed state of Zone 4
0/210/5  Sealed/Unsealed state of Zone 5
0/210/6  Sealed/Unsealed state of Zone 6
0/210/7  Sealed/Unsealed state of Zone 7
0/210/8  Sealed/Unsealed state of Zone 8
0/210/9  Sealed/Unsealed state of Zone 9
0/210/10  Sealed/Unsealed state of Zone 10
0/210/11  Sealed/Unsealed state of Zone 11
0/210/12  Sealed/Unsealed state of Zone 12
0/210/13  Sealed/Unsealed state of Zone 13
0/210/14  Sealed/Unsealed state of Zone 14
0/210/15  Sealed/Unsealed state of Zone 15
0/210/16  Sealed/Unsealed state of Zone 26

and also the overall state of the alarm

0/210/20  All Zones Ok - true/false
0/210/30  Armed State - Disarmed (0), Fully armed (1), Partially armed (2)
0/210/40  Alarm Sounding - true/false

Many thanks in advance

Kind Regards
James