Momentary piezo occasionally doesn't stop

Smart Home Integrations Home Assistant
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I've got a piezo set up as a warning signal while the alarm is in pending state. Sometimes it works fine, but about 25% of the time, when the alarm changes to another state, whether triggered or disarmed, the piezo stops chirping and starts buzzing full time. I can turn it off manually with a switch, but on its own it will just keep buzzing.

I've seen a few other threads reporting problems with piezos, but not exactly this. My configuration is below, I'd appreciate any suggestions.

  

konnected:
  access_token: !secret konnected_access_token
  api_host: http://<etc>
  devices:
    - id: <####>
      host: <####>
      port: <####>
      binary_sensors:
        - zone: 1
          name: 'Front Door'
          type: door
        - zone: 2
          name: 'Front Door Motion'
          type: motion
        - zone: 3
          name: 'Garage Door'
          type: door
        - zone: 4
          name: 'Garage Door Motion'
          type: motion
      switches:
        - zone: out
          name: 'Siren'
        - zone: 5
          name: 'Front door Piezo'
          momentary: 150
          pause: 500
          repeat: -1 

   

automation piezo:
  - alias: 'Beep piezo while in pending state'
    trigger:
      - platform: state
        entity_id: alarm_control_panel.home_alarm
        to: 'pending'
    action:
      service: homeassistant.turn_on
      entity_id: switch.front_door_piezo
  • alias: ‘Stop beeping piezo when pending state ends’
    trigger:
    • platform: state
      entity_id: alarm_control_panel.home_alarm
      from: ‘pending’
      action:
      service: homeassistant.turn_off
      entity_id: switch.front_door_piezo

 

2

Oh and for the record, this is running the latest firmware (2.2.6) and Home Assistant 0.90.0.

3

Hi- did you ever figure this out?

I believe the issue is how konnected interprets homeassistant.turn_off (or switch.turn_off) based on a similar question I raised on the home-assistant forum. I don't think konnected is handling the 'off' messages correctly. 


I'm having a similar issue where I have the piezo buzzer beeping once per second while the system is in a pending state waiting 60 seconds to be armed (arm_away). If I cancel the arm_away before the 60 seconds, everything in my cancel-automation will kick off works except the piezo continues to beep.


 

#################################################
# When the alarm has been disarmed. The following things happen:
# 1- Timer is canceled
# 2- Piezo 50 second countdown stops (not working)
# 3- Piezo 10 second countdown stops (not working)
# 4- The siren turns off
# 5- Alexa says "Perimeter defenses, offline"
#################################################
- alias: Alarm Disarmed
  trigger:
    - platform: state
      entity_id: alarm_control_panel.alarm
      to: disarmed
  action:
    - service: timer.cancel
      entity_id: timer.arm_away_timer
    - service: switch.turn_off
      entity_id: switch.countdown_50
    - service: switch.turn_off
      entity_id: switch.countdown_10
    - service: switch.turn_off
      entity_id: switch.siren_2
    - service: media_player.alexa_tts
      data:
        entity_id: media_player.my_echo_dot
        message: "Perimeter defenses, de-activated"
#################################################
#################################################

  

4

Unfortunately I did not ever get the piezo working via konnected. It sounds from your description like the same symptoms. Good luck finding a solution!


An alternative to consider is to connect the piezo to something other than the konnected boards, e.g. the raspberry pi or whatever is running home assistant.

5

The issue with having the piezo connected to a pi is that the piezo buzzer is going to be hidden behind my wall mounted tablet at one end of the house but the pi is on the other end and I cant run a cable from one side to the other. Very frustrating. I feel like I'm like 95% done replacing my old alarm system feature for feature except for this.

6

I’m having the same issue, plus I am getting recurring piezo alarms over and over, and occasionally the siren will chirp. attached a photo of recurring piezo alarms. I think they are related. Has anyone figured out the solution? I’ve ordered the add-on board.