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This is a belated follow-up to my previousposts, this time about the Honeywell Galaxy RS485 protocol, covering the Ethernet adapter. The adapter normally provides reports to an Alarm Receiving Centre (ARC). It can also be used to configure the alarm panel through Honeywell software. It does not, as far as I know, provide any direct interface to the alarm to allow it to be set/unset/etc. Devices like the LCE-01 provide this via a virtual keypad interface, by emulating a keypad on the RS485 bus (i.e. it does not interact with the panel through the normal panel<->ethernet interface, but instead through the panel<->keypad interface).

All data values below are in hex. The last byte of each command/response is a checksum (generally replaced below with XX).

General replies

When an error occurs the Ethernet device will reply with an error response to several (5?) polls in a row, presumably to ensure the message gets through to the panel (as the Ethernet device does not get confirmation from the panel that it has received the error).

Initial device poll

As previously described the alarm panel will poll for devices on startup and when exiting engineer mode. 25 is the only valid device id for the Ethernet adapter. 31 35 36 is ascii for “156” and my panel is running v1.56 firmware, so this is probably to allow the Ethernet card to ensure the panel has a compatible level of firmware before trying to interact with it. I have only seen one response (as above) so I do not know what a failure response would look like.

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Status poll

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Regular poll for device events, send a generic ok/error reply (see above).

Device configuration

Some/all of these commands are sent on device startup, periodically and on change (via the engineer menu).

25 1C 10… Primary reporting ip address and port. Ip address is null terminated ascii string e.g. 31 39 32 2E 31 36 38 2E 37 2E 35 0 = “192.168.7.35”. There is an additional 00 (purpose unknown) and then the port number in hex e.g. 27 12 = 0x2712.

25 1C 1E… Secondary reporting address, format as for primary.

25 1C 14… Reporting format and level, in the following format:
25 1C 14 fm lv XX fm - 01=microtech/02=sia lv - 00-03 for sia, always 03 for microtech

25 1C 18… Comms retries, in the following format:
25 1C 18 nn XX nn - number of retries

25 1C 1A… Ethernet device ip address, null terminated string e.g. 31 39 32 2E 31 36 38 2E 37 2E 32 39 00 = “192.168.7.1”

25 1C 1B… Ethernet device gateway, null terminated string e.g. 31 39 32 2E 31 36 38 2E 37 2E 31 00 = “192.168.7.1”

25 1C 1C… Ethernet device subnet, null terminated string e.g. 32 35 35 2E 32 35 35 2E 32 35 35 2E 30 00 = “192.168.7.29”

25 1C 1D… Various settings, in the following format:
25 1C 1D 00 hb sp en lf rm ip XX hb - heartbeat timer (mins) sp - line fail signal path 00=primary/01=secondary/02=alarm mon/03=any/04=all en - encrypt bitmask 01=alarm report | 02=remote access | 04=alarm mon lf - line fail network 00=off/01=available rm - receiver mode 00=alt/01=dual ip - protocol 00=udp/01=tcp

25 1C 20… Monitoring ip address and port. Ip address is null terminated ascii string e.g. 35 34 2E 32 34 37 2E 31 31 32 2E 38 32 0 = “54.247.112.82”. (There is NO additional 00 in this setting.) Then the port number in hex e.g. 27 15 = 0x2715. Note this setting is only sent when it is changed and before a report is sent, not as part of the block of settings routinely sent on startup.

Reports

Reports are sent in 2 or 3 messages, each of which needs a generic ok reply, depending on settings. I can’t remember which format and level options, setting a monitor ip, etc, results in what output – you’ll have to play…, I seem to remember that sometimes the first message above (25 1C 50…) is not sent.

25 1C 50… Account number, ascii (not null-terminated).

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25 1C 52… Report code, ascii (not null-terminated). I don’t know much about the content of the messages, but searching the web for sia alarm codes will tell you more.

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25 1C 51… Human readable report, ascii (not null-terminated).

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Scroll right in the code boxes above to see the ascii of these examples. When I used SelfMon to receive these messages the first characters were removed in the output. It’s possible that the “O” & “A” at the start of the messages are actually binary flags that just coincidentally are all reasonable ascii characters on this occasion or, probably more likely, are ascii flags. If you are implementing a network adapter you would need to send the messages on to the ARC at this point. This is likely to need to be done asynchronously and any errors reported to the panel on a subsequent status poll.