pai-esphome

Using ESPHome to interface between your Paradox Alarm unit with Home Assistant

Monitor your zones, arm/disarm, allow panic trigger.

Equipments:

1. Paradox SP5500
2. USB Buck DC-DC Converter 12v-5v (I powered using a USB cable but you could wire up the output of the buck converter directly to VIN and GND)
3. ESP8266
4. 1 channel 5v/3.3v Relay Module

Softwares:

1. ESPHome
2. MQTT Client
3. PAI (https://github.com/ParadoxAlarmInterface/pai)

Connection diagram:

You can use ESP32 as well (tested)

For more information, please visit https://github.com/ParadoxAlarmInterface/pai

Thanks

• Oxan & Bojan - https://github.com/oxan/esphome-stream-server - For making UART Stream over WiFi possible in ESPHome