No solution so far
Make a relay with esp i dont see as a tech solution but geek
I want a nice Ajax integration using Mqtt, is that so hard? They have a truly great coding team why dont they do that
We dont need disarm using mqtt. Status and arm
I agree, in my view the main problem is that they (alarm system manufacturers) all have a commercial interest in keeping the connection to a alarm system singular and proprietary, which is unfortunate for all the people who want both (I personally just have the sia integration in HA because I donāt want to pay some company a non-trivial amount per month).
@eavanvalkenburg but if the support SIA which is standardized protocol they have to expect someone will come up with āread-onlyā integration.
Regarding the integration of controlling i can imagine its also commercial but maybe another reason is security as 3rd codeā¦ can have a bug and noone then put a stamp that it wont be compromised from the integration point of view.
But i dont understand why they are blocking / making all that hassle for a read-only integration.
I agree, the problem is most of not all alarms are setup for just 1 monitoring company (only monitoring for SIA, in the case is Ajax they have their own protocol for official companies paying them a fee to also control afaik) and there is no reason it couldnāt simultaneously connect to multiple other than maybe compute power and bandwidth, but they havenāt done that, although maybe some doā¦
Does anyone know why I get this? In the Ajax app there is a notification that the SIA connection is broken. Where should I start looking for a solution to this, any ideas?
I had the ping interval in the Ajax app set to 5 min, changed it to 1 min now. Have a vague memory of the same setting in the SIA addon in Home Assistant but canāt find it?
I have lot of these in the log but doesnāt help me unfortunately:
2021-09-25 21:51:47 WARNING (MainThread) [pysiaalarm.base_server] Event timestamp is no longer valid: 2021-09-25 19:52:28+00:00
that message means the timestamps are out of sync, you can either turn on the ignore timestamp in the options flow for sia (when using the official integration) or wait a bit, I have a new version of the package coming in the next HA update that has a solution for this!
Alright, but the fact that I no longer can see the status of the alarm in HA isnāt related to the log entry?
My alarm is just āUnavailableā.
yeah it is, when it rejects a message (like when the timestamp is wrong) then that message is not used in HA to mark the alarm as available.
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Ah, then I understand. Thanks for explaining, Iāll wait for the updated version then.
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sorry its confusing here. ā¦ someone mentioned SIA via
I install SIA by going to HACS ā Integrations ā āExplore & add repositoriesā.
Select SIA,
and there there are links to https://github.com/Cheaterdev/sia-ha
or
https://github.com/eavanvalkenburg/sia/
so which module/plugin should work with Ajax?
thanks
Second one is a continuation of the first one.
But it is an official integration now so the latest one is not installed from HACS anymore.
Yeah please go with the official one, i havenāt done much with the HACS one recently so it is already starting to get behind and Iāll deprecate it at some point!
and what was the reason that you forked one? thanks
I forked CheaterDevās version a long time ago to further extend it and with the goal of at some point creating a official integration out of it, and by now it is officially in HA so no longer a need to have a HACS version!
@evanheckert hello, what exactly is meant by zones int True The number of zones present for the account, default is 1. ?
Does zone equals to group? thanks
To control ajax with Home Assistant (door sensor and Alarm activate/deactivate) iām using Jeedom.
Jeedom is a domotic soft like Domotics or Home Assistant and they have developped a plugin to manage Ajax alarm. With mqtt you can integrate it in Home Assistant 
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hello,
is there a way to get / read status of Nigh mode?
thanks
Yes:
Iām not sure what you mean, but night mode is a status for alarms in ha and as such is reflected by the component based on the code that came in. So please elaborate what you are trying to do!