Ajax alarm system

Markus69 · September 15, 2020, 8:32am

That helped a lot, however still strugeling with the settings, In the documents the full configuration is mentioned. I did not get all the options in the config flow. How and where do I put them? Eg. The zone name?

sia:
  port:  port
  hubs:
    - name: hubname
      account: account
      encryption_key: password
      ping_interval: pinginterval
      zones:
        - zone: 1
          name: zonename
          sensors:
           - alarm
           - moisture
           - smoke

eavanvalkenburg · September 15, 2020, 8:46am

Hi @Markus69 the config does not happen in yaml anymore, just in a config flow, so indeed go to integrations and add it from there, after adding the component through HACS, the config above will do nothing. Zonenames are not editable anymore, I will check the docs to see if those are still up to date.

Markus69 · September 15, 2020, 9:24am

Hi Eduard,
First thanks for all the good work, much appreciated. Under HACS Integrations SIA --> information there is a link to a page mentioning as I understand now old information. That’s what got me confused. It is working now so again thanks!!

eavanvalkenburg · September 15, 2020, 9:41am

Good catch, just updated the info page!

jolerius · September 20, 2020, 10:17am

I got this working. But I have one major issue. When the esp+remote is connected to power i cant restart home assistant. It doesnt start up. But when i unplug the esp+remote it works as it should. I am using wemos d1 mini.

So what could be the problem?

fireon · September 20, 2020, 11:45am

That is really strange. Should have something to do with the MQTT server but I cannot understand why HA doesn’t ignore that integration after a while/timeout. Or if there are other manual entities failing due to the switch not being set up properly through MQTT. Do you have retain set on or off in the MQTT config?

jolerius · September 20, 2020, 1:09pm

It isnt specified any retain value in the config. So i guess i have whats standard.

But why mqtt? Its the esp hardware with esp home installed that seems to be the problem.

fireon · September 20, 2020, 1:43pm

Oh then I don’t know. I am using a sketch on my Wemos D1 Mini that connects to my MQTT server addon that is integrated into home assistant. Like this setup: https://bitbucket.org/iesus_sonesson/d1-ajax-mqtt/src/master/

Never had any problems.

jolerius · September 21, 2020, 4:30pm

i tried the mqtt way instead… But how do i get it into HASS now?

fireon · September 21, 2020, 4:52pm

Take a look at my post here: Ajax alarm system

jamesarbrown · September 28, 2020, 8:34pm

I had this for a few things, and found the following fixed it for me. SIA v2

My alarm (Eaton Scantronic/Cooper Security) has following options

Flavien · October 5, 2020, 9:17pm

Will this component allow me to trigger automation when the alarm goes off?

eavanvalkenburg · October 6, 2020, 8:23am

Yes, it reflects the state of your alarm, but you can’t update it, since your alarm sends a message to the SIA server if something changes, it is reflected in HA very quickly.

Freland · October 7, 2020, 2:07pm

Hi! I’m having a bit of issue understanding how the installation of eavanvalkenburg custom component works… I’m running regular Home Assistant (not Hass.io) through docker. Not sure how the config flow thing works…

Click install. <-- where do I find install?
The latest version is only available through a config flow.
After clicking the add button in the Integration pane, you full in the below fields.

Also, what is the status of getting Ajax in as an integration?

//F

eavanvalkenburg · October 7, 2020, 2:22pm

@Freland, you need to enable HACS and then you will be able to search for and install SIA (that is the click install) and then go to regular Integrations in HA and click add.

Freland · October 30, 2020, 5:49am

I’ve had my Ajax-home assistant (Docker with 0.116.3) setup working without any problems for a while now (thanks @eavanvalkenburg !). However, that last 2 days (in the middle of the night, 05:16 and 04:32) the alarm status in home assistant has switched over to “Armed Away” without the status in Ajax being changed. I’ve checked the logs in Home assistant but nothing strange there. Any ideas why?

fireon · October 30, 2020, 7:11am

I am not using @eavanvalkenburg’s integration but I have noticed that the Ajax alarm very often sends an unknown encrypted message and sometimes cuts the SIA connection during the night. Most often around 0400-0430. I also get a broken pipe error in the log. Since it happens every now and then I guess there is something going on. Maybe an update check or a scheduled reset or something. I do not have any problems with wrong statuses though.

eavanvalkenburg · October 30, 2020, 10:45am

Also haven’t seen this before, and mine still works fine and I don’t see any messages, so please turn on logging for the component to see what’s going on! @Freland

Freland · October 30, 2020, 11:38am

Stupid question perhaps, but how do I turn on logging for the specific component?

eavanvalkenburg · October 30, 2020, 12:43pm

Added the instructions to the readme here: eavanvalkenburg/sia: SIA alarm systems integration into Home Assistant (github.com)