Kris Mitka 
@oh_that_courtney I ripped out a brinks alarm unit (subscriptions, yuck) and replaced it with a konnected system. That lead me to Home Assistant. Still trying to figure out how to get the alarm to work, hah. And to learn what else I can do with the application.
John Deters@mitka @oh_that_courtney I bought an Envisalink EVL-4 to hook my alarm to a raspberry pi, and then configured the envisalink integration built into #homeassistant