Bridge Risco-MyElas Alarm panel to and from MQTT Server (to interface a home automation controller)

2019-02-12 UPDATE: With Beta 2.0 release supports Home Assistant Autodiscovery, so can discovery panel and Detectors without manual edit the config. Try it and let me know. Thanks

This application is useful for interfacing a home automation controller that support MQTT protocol (for example Openhab, Home Assistant, etc... ) with Cloud Risco (or MyElas, depending on your country).

It can receive information from the Cloud Risco and send it to an MQTT server, or then receive commands via MQTT messages to be sent to the Cloud Risco(for example to arm or disarm your system).

ATTENTION: using this application you do it at your own risk, this is not an official Risco application. If you have access to the cloud installers area, I recommend you create another user and panel security code. However it is highly recommended not to share your cloud data (username, password, security code or site Id) on the internet, nor with other users.

• Node.js (currently tested with >=ver. 8.x)
• Mqtt Server - e.g. Mosquitto, HiveMQ, etc.
• An home automation controller like Openhab, Home Assistant or others (probably the reason why you're here 😊 )

After installing Node.js, execute the following steps:

• clone the repository with git clone https://github.com/lucacalcaterra/risco-mqtt-bridge.git
• cd risco-mqtt-bridge
• npm install
• in config dir copy the config-example.js to config.js and fill your information (follow the Configuration section below)
• launch with node app.js

if you want, you can use a process manager like pm2, nodemon, forever for automatically restart or launch at system boot the app.

In config.js inside config folder, the mandatory parameters to be filled are:

Inside loginData section:

• username : your cloud username
• password : your cloud password
• code : your cloud security code (for its username)
• SelectedSiteId : your riscoSiteId *

Inside exports.Mqtt section fill MQTT_SERVER address (change port also, if different from the standard 1883 ); if MQTT server requires authentication fill username and password in options

If you want, you can change the MQTT topics where the messages are published inside channels section (in the lines there are brief descriptive comments )

*To get your riscoSiteId, login to riscocloud via ChromeBrowser (first login screen), and before providing your PIN (second login page), display source of the page and find string: <div class="site-name" ... it will look like:

<div class="site-name" id="site_12345_div"> In that case "12345" is your siteId (Thanks to szlaskidaniel in homebridge-risco-alarm project for this description)

To change polling interval (I suggest not to lower it too much, avoiding overloading of Risco servers) can change POLLINGINTERVAL param (in milliseconds)

Leave the other parameters as they are (if you do not know what you are doing)

You can receive informations and send commands from your alarm system subscribing/publishing related topics.

Here is a simple example with following configuration topics (default topic and subtopics as in default-config.js):

channels: {
    MAINCHAN: 'riscopanel', // Main Topic
    ARMSTATUS: 'armstatus', // Arm status subtopic
    DETECTORS: 'dects', // Detectors subtopic
    EVENTHISTORY: 'eventhistory', // Event History subtopic
    ISONALARM: 'isonalarm', // Topic for receiving ongoing alarm
  },

You can receive arming status subscribing to riscopanel/armstatus topic

Receive detectors data subscribing to riscopanel/dects for JSON data of all detectors or riscopanel/dects/15 for receive only data about detector with id 15 (example)

Can receive Event History of your security panel subscribing to riscopanel/eventhistory for all events data (JSON format), or riscopanel/eventhistory/lastevent to retrieve last event riscopanel/eventhistory/today/errors to retrieve today's errors events (other possibilities must to be implemented)

Subscribing to riscopanel/isonalarm can receive messages if your panel is in alarm state (true if is on alarm / false not in alarm)

You can send the following messages to riscopanel/armstatus/SET topic:

• armed to arm partition
• diarmed to disarm partition
• partarmed to partially arm partition

(commands can be changed to the section armStatus in exports.States)

You can send the following messages to riscopanel/dects/{DetectorId}/SET topic:

• bypass for bypass specific detector ({DetectorId})
• unbypass for unbypass specific detector ({DetectorId})

To make the bridge work with Home Assistant you must enable MQTT and use the MQTT Alarm Control Panel of HA (https://www.home-assistant.io/components/alarm_control_panel.mqtt/).

Change config.js in transforms section as follow:

transforms: {
    // transforms states strings...to use for example in Home Assistant to reflect H.A.'s  alarm control panel states
    states: {
      disarmed: 'disarmed', 
      partarmed: 'armed_home', 
      armed: 'armed_away', 
      onalarm: 'onalarm', 
    },

....

Add following lines to configuration.yaml in HomeAssistant :

......
mqtt:
  broker: 127.0.0.1

alarm_control_panel:
  - platform: mqtt
    state_topic: "riscopanel/armstatus"
    command_topic: "riscopanel/armstatus/SET"
    payload_disarm: "disarmed" 
    payload_arm_home: "partially"
    payload_arm_away: "armed"
......

You can run it with Docker, without having to install nodes and all of its dependencies. Cannot explain how Docker works in this README but if you know it a little, i give you some short examples... REQUIREMENTS: MQTT Server (You can run also mqtt server with docker in case you don't have it on your host). If you want can build the Docker image with Dockerfile provided in the repo.

• 1- Run MQTT container (i.e. Mosquitto container- refer to: https://hub.docker.com/_/eclipse-mosquitto)
• 2- Copy config.js from the github project, fill your params and run risco-mqtt-bridge container with : docker run --name risco-mqtt-bridge -v {path where copied}/config.js:/app/config/config.js lucacalcaterra/risco-mqtt-bridge You can also mount the logs dir if you want adding the param -v {your path}/logs:/app/logs

BONUS: I created the docker image for ARM also (for running i.e on Raspberry); to use it must append armhf tag when pull image: lucacalcaterra/risco-mqtt-bridge:armhf

If you know Docker Compose here is an example of a docker-compose.yml file:

docker-compose.yml:

version: '2.0'
services:
  mosquitto:
    image: eclipse-mosquitto
    container_name: mosquitto
    restart: unless-stopped
    ports:
      - "1883:1883"
      - "9001:9001"
    #volumes:
    # - ./mosquitto/config:/mosquitto/config
    # - ./mosquitto/data:/mosquitto/data - /srv/dockerct/mosquitto/log:/mosquitto/log
  risco-mqtt-bridge:
    image: lucacalcaterra/risco-mqtt-bridge # Append 'armhf' if you run it on ARM Platform
    container_name: risco-mqtt-bridge
    restart: unless-stopped
    #ports: - "3000"
    volumes:
      - ./config.js:/app/config/config.js
      - ./logs:/app/logs
    environment:
      - NODE_ENV=production

For now , it works only with one partition and does not manage groups

I'm using the application with my alarm system (using Openhab mqtt binding for receive arm status), please send me your feedbacks (opening ticket on issues in github page), so i can fix any issues.

Report them to: https://github.com/lucacalcaterra/risco-mqtt-bridge/issues

• Node.js
• MQTT (for example Mosquitto)
• Axios for http requests
• MQTT.js for publish/subscribe MQTT messages
• Winston for logging
• config for the Application config