Sprinkle pca-re/docs/manuals/ citations into the four files that map
hardest to user-visible panel behavior, so a reader chasing "why is
this byte 0x03 here" lands on the right manual chapter directly from
the source.
models.SecurityMode
Per-value comments summarising what each arming mode means at the
keypad (entry/exit delays, which zones it arms, when to use it).
Points at the Owner's Manual SECURITY_SYSTEM_OPERATION chapter where
these semantics are spelled out for end users.
models.ZoneType
Class docstring now points at the Installation Manual SETUP ZONES
table where each numeric byte value is named -- the byte values and
short names we chose match that table one-for-one, so a reader can
cross-walk the v1 ZoneStatus byte to "PERIMETER" / "AWAY INT" / etc.
by row.
events.py
Module docstring adds Cross-references to APPENDIX A (Contact ID
reporting format) and APPENDIX B (digital communicator code sheet)
in the Installation Manual -- the central-station codes a panel
transmits for each AlarmKind correspond directly to those tables.
commands.py
Module docstring points at the Owner's Manual CONTROL, Scene Commands,
and SECURITY SYSTEM OPERATION chapters so the reader can tie each
enuUnitCommand byte to the user-facing keypad path that triggers it.
No code changes; all 387 tests still pass.
OmniClientV1Adapter (src/omni_pca/v1/adapter.py)
V2-shape facade over OmniClientV1. Exposes the OmniClient surface the
HA coordinator was written against — get_system_information,
list_*_names, get_object_properties (synthesized from streamed names),
get_extended_status (chunked, routed to v1 typed status opcodes),
get_object_status(AREA, ...) (derived from SystemStatus.area_alarms),
events() (EventStream on v1 SystemEvents opcode 35), plus all the
write-method shims.
Chunks unit/zone/thermostat/aux polls per-type because firmware 2.12
NAKs Request*Status with >~62 records in one shot (verified live).
Falls back to "Area 1".."Area 8" when the UploadNames stream returns
zero areas — common on panels where the installer didn't name them.
custom_components/omni_pca/coordinator.py
_ensure_connected picks OmniClientV1Adapter for transport=udp. New
_walk_properties_v1 replaces the v2 RequestProperties walk with a
name-stream + synthesized-Properties pass.
custom_components/omni_pca/config_flow.py
_probe routes to OmniClientV1Adapter for transport=udp instead of
trying to drive v2 OmniClient over UDP (which silently dropped after
handshake, per the earlier diagnosis).
src/omni_pca/events.py
parse_events / _ensure_system_events / EventStream now take an
expected_opcode arg (default v2 SystemEvents=55, v1 callers pass 35).
Word format is byte-identical between v1 and v2, so the typed-event
decoder is unchanged.
src/omni_pca/v1/client.py
_range_status supports the long-form RequestUnitStatus (BE u16
start/end) so panels with unit indices > 255 (sprinklers, flags) work.
Verified end-to-end against firmware 2.12 panel at 192.168.1.9:
config entries:
state=loaded Omni Pro II (host.docker.internal) (mock)
state=loaded Omni Pro II (192.168.1.9) (real, v1+UDP)
real-panel entities created in HA: 96 (30 binary_sensor, 26 light,
15 switch, 13 button, 9 sensor, 3 climate)
cross-check: light.omni_pro_ii_front_porch_2 = on (matches live
probe: unit #2 'FRONT PORCH' state=0x01 brightness=100)
dev/probe_v1_coordinator.py
Coordinator-shaped end-to-end smoke test against the real panel
without HA — drives the full discovery + poll cycle through the
adapter. Useful for regression-checking the v1 wire path.
dev/add_real_panel.py
Programmatically adds the real-panel config entry to the dev HA
stack via the REST config-flow endpoints. Idempotent.
Some Omni network modules are configured for UDP, in which case PC Access
falls back to the v1 wire protocol (OmniLinkMessage outer = 0x10, inner
StartChar 0x5A, typed Request*Status opcodes) instead of v2's TCP path
(OmniLink2Message + StartChar 0x21 + parameterised RequestProperties).
This adds a parallel implementation rather than overloading the v2 path.
omni_pca/v1/
connection.py UDP-only OmniConnectionV1; reuses crypto + handshake,
routes post-handshake messages through OmniLinkMessage
(0x10) wrapping v1 inner format. Adds iter_streaming
for the lock-step UploadNames/Acknowledge/EOD pattern.
messages.py Block parsers for the typed v1 status replies (zone,
unit, thermostat, aux), v1 SystemStatus, and NameData
(handles both one-byte and two-byte NameNumber forms).
client.py OmniClientV1: read API (get_system_information,
get_*_status), discovery (iter_names + list_*_names),
write API (execute_command, execute_security_command,
turn_unit_*, set_unit_level, bypass/restore_zone,
execute_button, set_thermostat_*). acknowledge_alerts
is a no-op (v1 has no equivalent opcode).
Discovery uses bare UploadNames; panel streams every defined name across
all types in a fixed order with per-record Acknowledge. Verified against
firmware 2.12 — pulled 16 zones, 44 units, 16 buttons, 8 codes,
2 thermostats, 8 messages in one stream.
src/omni_pca/message.py
Fix flipped START_CHAR_V1_* constants. enuOmniLinkMessageFormat says
Addressable=0x41 and NonAddressable=0x5A; our names had them swapped.
Wire bytes were unchanged, so existing tests kept passing — but
encode_v1() with no serial_address now correctly emits 0x5A, which
is what UDP needs.
tests/
test_v1_messages.py 22 cases; payloads are real wire captures
from a firmware-2.12 panel via probe_v1_recon.
test_v1_client_commands.py 20 cases; payload-packing for the Command
and ExecuteSecurityCommand opcodes,
including BE u16 parameter2 and the
digit-by-digit security code form.
dev/
probe_v1.py Phase-1 smoke: handshake + RequestSystemInformation.
probe_v1_recon.py Raw opcode dump for protocol reconnaissance.
probe_v1_stream.py Streaming UploadNames flow exploration.
probe_v1_client.py Full read-path smoke test via OmniClientV1.
probe_v1_write.py Live no-op execute_command round-trip.
.gitignore: ignore dev/.omni_key (probe scripts read controller key from
this file as one fallback option).
Discovery on firmware 2.12: Request*ExtendedStatus opcodes (63/65/69)
NAK on this firmware — only the basic Request*Status opcodes are
implemented, so OmniClientV1 uses those (3 bytes/unit, 7 bytes/tstat,
4 bytes/aux records). HA still gets enough signal for polling; full
properties discovery uses streaming UploadNames instead.
Test totals: 387 passed, 1 skipped (existing fixture skip).
Found via live testing against the user's Omni Pro II (firmware 2.12)
on UDP. Without this, the panel holds the session slot (it's
single-client by design) and rejects new sessions from us with
ControllerCannotStartNewSession (packet type 0x07) until its idle
timeout fires (60s+ in our testing).
src/omni_pca/connection.py:
close() now sends Packet(type=ClientSessionTerminated) before
tearing down the socket, but only if we got past CONNECTING (no
point sending termination if we never had a session). For TCP we
drain the writer briefly so the byte hits the wire before FIN.
For UDP the sendto is fire-and-forget. Wrapped in try/except so
close() stays idempotent.
Live-validation findings (real Omni Pro II, firmware 2.12):
✓ UDP handshake works end-to-end. The four-packet exchange
(NewSession ack / SecureSession ack) round-trips cleanly,
confirming the two non-public protocol quirks (session key
XOR mix + per-block whitening) are correctly implemented.
✗ Post-handshake encrypted messages get no reply from this
firmware (tried v1 OmniLinkMessage and v2 OmniLink2Message;
both arrive at the panel — verified via tcpdump — and the
panel sends nothing back). Suspected: firmware 2.12 either
requires an explicit Login first or has a different opcode
set than PC Access 3.17 documents. Needs more RE work.
The handshake-quirks validation is the headline win — we've now
proven that part of the protocol against real hardware, which no
public Omni-Link client has done. Post-handshake message dispatch
is the next investigation.
357 tests still pass.
The C# decompile shows enuOmniLinkConnectionType has both Network_TCP=4
and Network_UDP=3 (clsOmniLinkConnection.cs uses udpSend/tcpSend
parallel paths), and clsHAC carries an enuPreferredNetworkProtocol
{TCP, UDP} per-installation byte. User reports their panel is
configured for UDP. The TCP-only assumption was too narrow.
Wire format is identical: same Packet/Message framing, same handshake,
same per-block whitening, same opcodes, same port. Only differences:
* UDP is connectionless; each datagram = one Packet (no stream framing)
* UDP needs explicit retry-on-timeout for reliability
src/omni_pca/connection.py:
- New constructor args: transport: Literal['tcp','udp']='tcp',
udp_retry_count: int = 3
- connect()/close() branch on transport — TCP keeps the existing
asyncio.open_connection + StreamReader/Writer + reader_task path;
UDP uses asyncio.get_running_loop().create_datagram_endpoint with
remote_addr= so transport.sendto(data) works without per-datagram
addrs. The reader_task is TCP-only.
- _write_packet branches between writer.write and udp_transport.sendto
- request() loops up to (1 + udp_retry_count) attempts on UDP, retrying
on RequestTimeoutError; TCP gets a single attempt (existing behavior)
- New _OmniDatagramProtocol that decodes each datagram into a Packet
and delegates to the shared _dispatch (which already knows how to
route handshake / solicited / unsolicited)
src/omni_pca/mock_panel.py:
- serve(transport='tcp'|'udp') public arg; defaults preserve existing
TCP behavior. Internally splits into _serve_tcp / _serve_udp.
- New _MockServerDatagramProtocol that mirrors _handle_client for UDP.
Tracks one active client by addr (single-session, matches Omni's
single-client constraint). Reuses the panel's existing _dispatch_v2,
_reply_*, _build_* helpers — the dispatch logic is unchanged, only
the transport framing differs.
- New _schedule_udp_push for synthesized SystemEvents (seq=0) push
to the active client's addr after state mutations.
src/omni_pca/client.py:
- OmniClient gains transport= and udp_retry_count= kwargs that pass
through to OmniConnection. Default is 'tcp' so existing callers
are unaffected.
tests/test_e2e_udp.py — 6 e2e tests:
- handshake roundtrip
- get_system_information
- arm area with right code
- arm with wrong code -> CommandFailedError
- turn unit on -> push UnitStateChanged event
- wrong ControllerKey -> HandshakeError
All run under 0.2s. Combined with the existing TCP suite: 357 tests
pass (was 351), ruff clean across src/ tests/.
The HA integration's config_flow still defaults to TCP; users on UDP
panels can manually set transport= via the OmniClient init path. A
follow-up commit will add transport to the HA config flow as a
dropdown option.
The HA coordinator walks ObjectType.THERMOSTAT (6) and ObjectType.BUTTON
(3) via raw RequestProperties to discover them — the high-level
get_object_properties() path only knows zones/units/areas in v1.0. The
mock was returning Nak for both, which made HA discover zero thermostats
and zero buttons no matter how MockState was seeded.
src/omni_pca/mock_panel.py:
- New MockButtonState dataclass (just a name)
- MockState gains buttons: dict[int, MockButtonState] (with the same
bare-string -> dataclass __post_init__ promotion as the others)
- _OBJ_BUTTON = 3, _BUTTON_NAME_LEN = 12, _THERMOSTAT_NAME_LEN = 12
constants
- thermostat_name_bytes() / button_name_bytes() helpers
- _build_thermostat_properties() emits the 23-byte Properties body
matching ThermostatProperties.parse offsets (object number BE u16,
communicating flag, current temp, heat/cool setpoints, system/fan/
hold modes, thermostat type, 12-byte NUL-padded name)
- _build_button_properties() emits the 15-byte body (object number BE
u16 + 12-byte name)
- _reply_properties / _object_store dispatch both new types
tests/test_e2e_client_mock.py — two new e2e tests drive raw
RequestProperties walks for thermostats and buttons against a seeded
mock and assert ThermostatProperties / ButtonProperties parse cleanly,
mirroring what the HA coordinator's _walk_properties() does.
333 tests pass (was 331); ruff clean. Mock surface now matches every
opcode the HA coordinator and entity platforms actually call.
src/omni_pca/client.py — wire OmniClient.events() that returns an async
iterator over typed SystemEvent objects (built on events.EventStream).
src/omni_pca/mock_panel.py — substantial expansion:
- Per-object state dataclasses (MockUnitState, MockAreaState, MockZoneState,
MockThermostatState) plus user_codes table for security validation
- Backward-compat: existing callers passing {idx: 'NAME'} strings still work
via __post_init__ string-promotion to the matching Mock*State instance
- New opcode handlers:
Command (20) -> Ack with state mutation, dispatches
UNIT_ON/OFF/LEVEL, BYPASS/RESTORE_ZONE,
SET_THERMOSTAT_HEAT/COOL/SYS/FAN/HOLD
ExecuteSecurityCommand (74) -> Ack on valid code (mode applied);
Nak on invalid code
RequestStatus (34) -> Status (35) for Zone/Unit/Area/Thermostat
hard-coded record sizes per
clsOL2MsgStatus.cs:13-27
RequestExtendedStatus (58) -> ExtendedStatus (59) with object_length
prefix, richer fields per object type
AcknowledgeAlerts (60) -> Ack
- Synthesized SystemEvents (55) push on state change with seq=0; events round-
trip cleanly through events.parse_events() (validated by tests, not just
asserted in code)
tests/test_e2e_client_mock.py — +9 e2e tests covering arm/disarm with code
validation, unit on/off/level, zone bypass/restore, thermostat setpoint,
push events for arming and unit changes, acknowledge_alerts.
203 passed (was 194), 2 skipped (HA harness + .pca fixture). Ruff clean.
Library v1.0 surface complete: read-only, command, status, extended status,
events. Next: rebuild the HA custom_component on top of this.
