I have been monitoring all my ADT pulse sensors and setting and disarming my ADT pulse alarm. I have upgraded to 0.92.1 and no longer have any connection to the ADT alarm. Is this due to upgrade or just a coincidence? Anyone know what might have happened? Did ADT do something?
BTW, tomorrow they are coming to upgrade me to the new ADT system that is not pulse. They call the app that runs it “Commander” and they claim it is much smarter than the pulse system. Has anyone seen this system yet? The ADT person said the Commander is based on an www.alarm.com system. That may be my way of handling the new system.
Any info greatly appreciated, Doug
I started using the new Command system about two weeks ago. I’m not sure how to access the sensors using HA (I am currently using Homebridge for that). But I am able to arm and disarm the system using HA. I’m pretty happy with the alarm.com backend. Good luck, and keep me posted how it goes!
Wow! The new ADT (www.control.adt.com) system took three days of visits to install. It is exhibiting all sorts of random errors and a repair person is due tomorrow. This is new to the installers and repair people. They are scratching their heads and calling for ‘control’ system help from headquarters. As new as this is, I also have two partitions (in two buildings 200’ apart) and that is something that is in beta test at best. I asked for partition one to disarm from its local panel and both partitions disarmed. That does not display on the keypad, so you do not know the second partition disarmed until you look at the app on phone or browser. So far, this is not going well. It cost $900 to go from Pulse (which could not handle two partitions properly) to ADT control which is full of bugs at this point. I am an electrical engineer retired, but formerly working in automation (hardware, software, and system design). I am worried that I have shot myself in the foot so to speak doing this (upgrade??). It would be great to find a few Home-Assistant users that are using this system and trying to integrate it with HA. We could exchange experiences and help get this system under HA monitor/control.
Please see my latest post to this topic Mike.
How did you get HA to arm/disarm? You are seeing the sensors on Homebridge? I do not have that, so I hope there is an approach I can use.
Let’s stay in touch, Doug
Hi Doug,
Sorry to hear it is not working out for you. Luckily, I have had a very good experience with the system. Adding it to HA was simple. I just added this to my configuration.yaml:
alarm_control_panel:
platform: alarmdotcom
username: [email protected]
password: XXXXXXXXXXX
It then shows up in the Lovelace UI. I only have options to arm and disarm it, though. But for me that is good enough in HA. As I mentioned, I also use Homebridge. Homebridge doesn’t really have its own UI. It is used to add non-HomeKit devices to the Apple Home app. The sensors do show up in Home and I can use Siri (or HomeKit automations) to arm and disarm the system. Let me know if there’s anything else I can do to help.
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Thanks Mike.
I have exactly what you have shown me in my configuration.yaml file with my user name and password which logs me in just fine at the web site. The log file shows a python error indicating ‘index out of range’ as the error. I guess I am OK with their app. I just miss out on doing automations based on alarm states and alarm sensors.
Any luck on getting HA working with ADT control security system?
Any luck getting it up and running with hassio?