Check current status via simple python script

[bantaj]

Greetings,
I have a Honeywell Vista 20p with the EVL-3 interface and would like to create a simple python script to poll current status for use in a home automation project.

I have found Juggie's very impressive AlarmServer on git but am having trouble getting it to work properly and must admit it appears to have way more features than what I am looking for (pretty complex for this novice).

I can telnet into the envisalink fine and get responses every few seconds that look like this:
%00,01,1C28,08,00, DISARMED CHIME Ready to Arm $

So now what I want to do is automate a polling function every x seconds in order to take the neccessary action when the alarm state changes.

Any suggestions?
John

[andrek666]

Not sure about your question. It seems like you want to know how to best write in Python a polling loop to issue Telnet requests and to analyse the responses. If that's what you need you'd be better off trying Python related forums.