Note: Hausmate does not directly control safety critical equipment or equipment which puts people at risk if something goes wrong, this including intruder alarms.


None of our system is tested or graded for intruder alarms - there are very strict/tight regulations on these and we would never be able to match the alarm specialists functionality and prices. However, we recommend you to use a Texecom ‘Premier Elite’ alarm panel with an ‘IPcom’ module so that it can communicate to the ARC (Alarm Receiving Centre) and our system via the LAN/internet. An alternative would be a Honeywell Galaxy product with Ethernet/internet module. If you choose a grade 3 system you will need a second independent means of contacting the ARC which is often done with a GSM module (mobile phone SIM card required). These are just suggestions based on our previous experience and we advise to contact a specialist. 


However, if requested, we can integrate a chosen intruder alarm into a Zone Gateway (ZG)  so that the installation of both can be done using the same cables. Intruder alarm regulations allow for intruder alarm and other signals to be run using the same cable as long as the other signals do not interfere with the intruder alarms operation. As standard, Hausmate uses 8 core CAT5 cable and an intruder alarm sensor would need 4 cores for the sensor (+12Vdc, 0V, zone signal out, zone signal return). As the Hausmate system runs on 5Vdc and there are regulations about the intruder alarms supply - backup battery life, integrity of the backup battery etc, it would not be practical for the sensors supply to be derived from or linked to (common 0V) the Hausmate system supply. This would leave 4 cores for theHausmate system.

Option 1 - for a sensor board and an intruder alarm sensor  (e.g. PIR) to share a cable as they could be located next to each other. As most sensor boards would need a minimum of 5 cores (+5V, 0V, ambient light, temperature, PIR), this will not be possible. The 2 systems probably can not use the same PIR sensor as the Hausmate PIR sensor needs to be sensitive to pick up on even the slightest movement whilst the alarm PIR sensor must only detect a definite presence to prevent false alarms i.e. a significant movement.

Option 2 -for a light switch and door closed sensor to share a cable. The door closed sensor does not need a power supply so only needs 2 core of the cable. This then works with a sensor board using 6 of the cores (+5V, 0V, ambient light, temperature, PIR, spare e.g. humidity).

Option 3 -for rocker switches and alarm PIR or door closed sensor to share a cable. As rocker switches only need 1 core per rocker and a 0V core for the commons then up to 3 rockers could share a cable with a PIR or door closed sensor. The non-LED encoder is also uses 4 cores but the LED encoder uses all 8 cores.