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Dilbert66 / esphome-dsckeybus

Esphome custom configuration for interfacing to a DSC POWERSERIES alarm system
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Can dsckeybus be used as a master to troubleshoot keyboards and modules #20

Closed rkgladney closed 3 years ago

rkgladney commented 3 years ago

I am interested in using an Arduino or an esp8266 as a master controller for troubleshooting PK5501 keyboards or DSC expansion modules without having a PC1832 or PC1616 attached. Reading through your readme information, it appears that this might be possible. Do you have an Arduino example file already generated that I can use as a starting point, and are there limitations to doing this that I am not aware of at this point? I do not have a spare PC1832 for troubleshooting, but I do have an abundance of Arduino uno and esp8266 modules at my disposal.

Dilbert66 commented 3 years ago

See this project here: https://github.com/taligentx/dscKeybusInterface Taligentx has implemented code to make the device a master. There is no support to debug expansion modules at this time. I have not tested or tried such an implementation so cannot help there.