MQTT-concord4

This is based off the original device-concord4 here.

Which is forked from the original here.

The original concord4 was made for SmartThings via a web-server. Since SmartThings is now sun-setting classic along with custom DTH UIs, it no longer works.

As such I'm moving to Home Assistant and still want to use this integration. Since MQTT is very easy to use with HA, I've modified the primary server to use MQTT instead of RESTful.

Prerequisites

Hardware (Concord 4 or equivalent panel) with a Superbus 2000 automation module attached to it
RS232 connection (to the AM panel)
Python 2.7
Python packages: requests, future, pyserial (pip install), paho-mqtt (pip install)
Raspberry Pi (recommended)

Installation

Edit concordsvr_mqtt.conf with your favourite editor, such as nano concordsvr_mqtt.conf
- Set host to the host of your MQTT, and the port
- Set mqttuser to the base64 encoded name of the user to login, and mqttpassword to the base64 encoded password of that user
Start the program using python concordsvr_mqtt.py
If desired, it can be started on every boot by using crontab -e and adding:
- @reboot cd /home/pi/ && ./start_concordsvr &
Where start_concordsvr contains:
- #!/bin/bash
- cd /home/pi/concordsvr/ && python ./concordsvr_mqtt.py

Home Assistant

You can create entities in Home Assistant to represent the various sensors by adding MQTT library to HA, and then editing the configuration.yaml file to include something like:

# MQTT binary sensor
binary_sensor:
    - platform: mqtt
    name: "Front Door"
    state_topic: "concord/zone/1"
    payload_on: "open"
    payload_off: "closed"
    device_class: opening

This adds the front door sensor as an entity you can put on any dashboard.

The alarm entity can be created with the following item in the configuration:

# Alarm setup
alarm_control_panel:
    - platform: mqtt
    state_topic: "concord/alarm"
    command_topic: "concord/alarm/set"
    code_arm_required: false
    code_disarm_required: false

MQTT

The topic listened to is concord/#. The topic to set is:

concord/alarm/set

With payloads of:

arm_home
arm_away
disarm

The device will send out messages like:

concord/zone/x

Where x is the zone number, like 1. Payload is 'open' or 'closed. It also sends:

concord/alarm