I wrote a step-by-step tutorial on how to bring up a Home Assistant alarm panel

Smart Home Integrations Home Assistant
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@Groutley


This is the automation I use. It doesn't arm automatically, it rather notifies me, in case there's someone else home (e.g., babysitter)

 

alias: 'Intrusion: reminder to arm when I leave'
trigger:
  - platform: state
    entity_id: group.family
    to: not_home
condition:
  - condition: state
    entity_id: alarm_control_panel.home_alarm
    state: disarmed
action:
  - service: notify.notify
    data:
      message: You left. Consider arming the alarm in away mode
mode: single

 

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 @Groutley


- glad you got that sorted.  Since the last few HA upgrades my system stopped reporting status and I need to figure out what's going on.


Not sure if there is a section on these boards for automation examples for HA, but If there is we should start encouraging posters to drop their code there to help others.

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Hello Daniele,

Thanks for your detailed setup instructions.  It certainly helped me going with Home Assistant + Konnected pro.

I also used the Alarmo custom card to set up scripts and automation for notifications, siren sound via Google home speaker group, etc.


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If you like me were trying to figure out how to configure an alarm_control_panel to work with an interface kit so you can have a card in a dashboard, I found that using a template alarm_control_panel works better than a manual one. Since you basically just need it to react to input (arming/disarming) and show you the correct status, the manual panel has too much logic with timeouts and everything. Here’s what I came up with to provide triggered and armed/disarmed status and also tie the buttons to the momentary switches used to arm/disarm the Vista panel. Your entities may have different names based on what you called them when configuring the Konnected integration in HA.

alarm_control_panel:
  - platform: template
    panels:
      app_alarm_panel:
        code_format: no_code
        value_template: >
          {% if is_state('binary_sensor.alarm_triggered', 'on') %}
            triggered
          {% elif is_state('binary_sensor.armed_status', 'off') %}
            armed_away
          {% else %}
            disarmed
          {% endif %}
        arm_away:
          service: switch.turn_on
          target:
            entity_id: switch.arm_away
        arm_home:
          service: switch.turn_on
          target:
            entity_id: switch.arm_stay
        disarm:
          service: switch.turn_on
          target:
            entity_id: switch.disarm
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@Dustin_Forster not sure if you’ll. See this but I thought I’d try. Your template code for the interface boards were super helpful, thank you!

There is one thing I’m confused on - I’m trying to toggle the disarm but I’m not sure how to do that. Does it require another zone to be set specifically for disarm? Or is there a way to toggle the specific zone that was previously set (I.e. arm away or arm stay) so that the toggle affects the alarm correclty?

Thanks in advance!