Ohhh, That is interesting. The ELK has two modes of connection - SSL or Clear; I have chosen clear for obvious reasons; but with this trick; i might be able to use existing modules to establish the secure channel..

Very Cool

My driver for the ELK M1 / NESS M1 Security Panel is now communicating, messages are getting parsed; and today I hope to be able to send Arming and Disarming commands :)

I do think that this driver will be much better running on iRidium Server, as there would be much options for event triggers, which running on the UI panel will not make a lot of logic.

Thanks for the encouragement.

Figured out that the object types were incorrect, and i need to do a conversion before the string methods were offered.