Integration of the Ksenia alarm control panel

Introduction

Ksenia is an Italian professional security system designed to protect homes and businesses with reliable intrusion detection and intelligent control functions. When connected to Ilevia, this security becomes part of your daily automation: arming, events, and alerts flow into a single interface, allowing the home to react intelligently to what the security system detects. The integration removes complexity and provides smoother, faster control of both security and comfort.

Prerequisites

• Update the Ksenia control panel firmware, if available;

• Enable the Ksenia control panel IP interface;

• Enable the Ksenia integration protocol.

Ksenia alarm unit configuration

Step 1:

Open your web browser and access the Ksenia web configuration interface.

Step 2:

1. Go to the IP Devices menu from the sidebar, then click Supervisor.
2. Select the pencil icon in the top right to enter edit mode for the current settings and add the X1 server MAC address.
3. Save the changes.

Note: to retrieve the X1 server MAC address, refer to this guide.

Configuration in Ilevia Manager

Step 3:

Make sure you have the latest version of Ilevia Manager by downloading it from the Ilevia website. Open Ilevia Manager. Finally, connect to the server.

Step 4:

Open the Video Surveillance / Security tab in the Component Library. Add a new Ksenia component.

Step 5:

1. Enter the IP address of the Ksenia alarm unit in the Ilevia configuration software.

2. Leave the default port, as the Ksenia alarm unit uses an HTTPS connection for data transfer.

3. Choose whether to use the Supervisor or the X1 server MAC address. The main difference between using the Supervisor and the MAC address is that with the Supervisor you will not be able to interact with the alarm unit commands.

4. Finally, click Create Gateway.

Step 6:

You can check the gateway properties in the Gateway tab of Ilevia Manager.

Step 7:

Ksenia components will be created automatically after the gateway is created.

Step 8:

Add the Ksenia component to the user interface as shown in the image below. Finally, upload the project to the server.

Step 9:

Access the Ksenia widget interface. From here you can manage all the configuration and commands available for the Ksenia control panel.

Step 10:

Here you can manage the partition. Clicking the button next to the partition enables the partition control commands:

1. This button arms the selected partition.

2. This button delayed-arms the selected partition.

3. This button disarms all selected and currently armed partitions.

Step 11:

In this tab you can check the zones of each partition and monitor their status. The zone status panel indicates whether the zone is:

1. Open or in Error;

2. In Tamper;

3. In Alarm status;

4. Included or Excluded.

Step 12:

At the bottom of the screen there are three buttons:

1. This button includes the selected zones in the alarm;

2. This button excludes the selected zones from the alarm;

3. This button clears all alerts for the selected zones.

Step 13:

This is the outputs tab. Once enabled, this command allows you to switch on/off an connected output to the Ksenia control panel.

Step 14:

The Scenarios tab allows you to activate the scenarios already configured in the Ksenia alarm unit.

User PIN

The Ksenia widget in the Ilevia Control app allows you to temporarily save your User PIN, so you do not need to enter it every time you use the widget.

To enable this function, open the detailed view of the Ksenia widget, then tap the three-dot menu in the top-right corner of the screen.

Enter the User PIN and select how long to keep it stored from the Remember for drop-down menu. After the selected period, you will be prompted to enter the User PIN again.

History

The Ksenia widget includes a History menu that lets you view the record of all events and actions related to the Ksenia alarm system.

To access it, tap the menu with the three dots in the widget’s top-right corner, then select History. A chronological list of all recorded events and actions will be displayed.

From the Filters menu you can also filter the history logs by name and date range, making it easier to find the events of interest.