EVL-3 - using without EYEZON servers?

[gnolivos]

Good day everybody. I purchased an EVL-3 to be used with my Vista 15P panel. I talked to EYEZON support about how the system operates, communicates with EYEZON servers, etc.

I've been wanting a solution to self-monitor my home, but I wanted something self-contained, that would not depend on external services. One reason is for privacy concerns, the other is because it guarantees that my system wil be functional in the future. (If you ever purchased the Honeywell expansion card that offered similar features, you surely nkow that they discontinued the email alerting system/server, and folks were left with a useles $250 card!)

Anyway, the reason I am posting is to probe whether anyone out there has found a workaround to NOT depend on EYEZON servers for monitoring? I would like to be able to:
1) Connect to the EYEZON remotely *directly* and determine status of zones.etc. (possible today with port forwarding?)
2) Use my own SMTP server of choice to send alarm notifications (much like any IP camera allows).

Thanks for any help!

[dcuste]

If you an android user, you might want to checkout the Watch my Home app. I don't open a port for it, so I don't use it outside my network, but it can be done. There is also a Watch my Home plugin for use with the AutomateIt app. I use this plugin for automating some security features as well as home automation type functions using the 20p X10 controls.

[TD22057]

I don't think so yet - but I'm planning on implementing something like this. I'm going to write a python app for my home server (Ubuntu) to read the panel state and messages and feed that information into a database (probably mysql for current status and influxdb for time histories). Then write a custom web page (python+flask framework) to interact w/ the system. No ETA yet so it could be awhile before I finish it.

There are some existing packages to talk to the envisalink module already:
http://forum.eyez-on.com/FORUM/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=544
https://github.com/MattTW/HoneyAlarmServer
https://github.com/juggie/AlarmServer

[user17600]

I run OpenVPN on my android phone and on my Asus (N66 with Shibby) router, and use the Watch My Home app to check the status and enable/disable where appropriate, directly on my panel from wherever I happen to be.

I have monitoring with Eyezon preferred partner (CML), but find that the certainty of seeing changes in real time on my system makes me feel better then wondering if the changes have been applied (sometimes there is a 20-30 second delay).

[mikep]

For DSC panels + envisalink I have http://sites.google.com/site/mppsuite/a ... /dscserver that you can use to set up your own server for self-monitoring.