Alarm Control Panel Issues

Configuration
1

I set up the Android MQTT Alarm Control Panel App on a tablet and made some automations to have a basic alarm system in HASS. I’ve specified a group of sensors that will trigger the alarm in either Home or Away mode, and made some TTS automations to announce the state of the alarm. I’ve also set up actionable notifications in iOS for when the alarm gets triggered. However, something isn’t right that I can’t figure out. The alarm will get triggered and I’ll get a notification, but neither the tablet’s code entry, nor my iOS disarm action from the notification will actual stop the alarm from sounding. Anyone able to offer thoughts on why this is so? Here’s my set of automations:

- alias: Alarm Arm Away
  initial_state: true
  trigger:
  - platform: state
    entity_id: group.motion_sensors
    to: 'on'
  - platform: state
    entity_id: group.door_window_sensors
    to: 'on'
  condition:
    condition: state
    entity_id: alarm_control_panel.ha_alarm
    state: armed_away
  action:
    service: alarm_control_panel.alarm_trigger
    entity_id: alarm_control_panel.ha_alarm
- alias: Alarm Arm Home
  initial_state: true
  trigger:
    platform: state
    entity_id: group.door_window_sensors
    to: 'on'
  condition:
    condition: state
    entity_id: alarm_control_panel.ha_alarm
    state: armed_home
  action:
    service: alarm_control_panel.alarm_trigger
    entity_id: alarm_control_panel.ha_alarm
- alias: Alarm Sound
  initial_state: true
  trigger:
    platform: state
    entity_id: alarm_control_panel.ha_alarm
    to: triggered
    for:
      minutes: 1
  action:
  - service: scene.turn_on
    entity_id: scene.panic
- alias: Alarm Disarm
  initial_state: true
  trigger:
    platform: state
    entity_id: alarm_control_panel.ha_alarm
    to: disarmed
  action:
  - service: scene.turn_on
    entity_id: scene.home
  - service: script.sonos_say
    data:
      sonos_entity: media_player.kitchen
      volume: 0.5
      message: Alarm Disarmed
      delay: 00:00:05
- alias: Alarm Annunciator Triggered
  initial_state: true
  trigger:
  - platform: state
    entity_id: alarm_control_panel.ha_alarm
    to: triggered
  action:
  - service: script.sonos_say
    data:
      sonos_entity: media_player.kitchen
      volume: 0.5
      message: Warning! You have activated the alarm. You have 1 minute to disarm
        before sirens sound and authorities notified
      delay: 00:00:10
- alias: Alarm Annunciator Countdown
  initial_state: true
  trigger:
  - platform: state
    entity_id: alarm_control_panel.ha_alarm
    to: pending
  action:
  - service: script.sonos_say
    data:
      sonos_entity: media_player.kitchen
      volume: 0.5
      message: Alarm will be armed in 60 seconds
      delay: 00:00:05
- alias: Alarm Annunciator Armed Home
  initial_state: true
  trigger:
  - platform: state
    entity_id: alarm_control_panel.ha_alarm
    to: armed_home
  action:
  - service: script.sonos_say
    data:
      sonos_entity: media_player.kitchen
      volume: 0.5
      message: Alarm is now armed in home mode
      delay: 00:00:05
- alias: Alarm iOS Triggered Notify
  initial_state: true
  trigger:
  - platform: state
    entity_id: alarm_control_panel.ha_alarm
    to: triggered
  action:
  - service: notify.ios_kevins_iphone
    data_template:
      title: Alarm has been triggered!
      message: What would you like to do?
      data:
        push:
          category: alarmactions
- alias: Alarm iOS Disarm Action
  initial_state: true
  trigger:
    platform: event
    event_type: ios.notification_action_fired
    event_data:
      actionName: DISARMALARM
  action:
    service: alarm_control_panel.alarm_disarm
    entity_id: alarm_control_panel.ha_alarm
- alias: Alarm iOS Sound Action
  initial_state: true
  trigger:
    platform: event
    event_type: ios.notification_action_fired
    event_data:
      actionName: SOUNDALARM
  action:
    service: scene.turn_on
    entity_id: scene.panic

And my config entries, including iOS notification and alarm control panel:

ios:
  push:
    categories:
      - name: Alarmactions
        identifier: 'alarmactions'
        actions:
          - identifier: 'SOUNDALARM'
            title: 'Sound Alarm'
            activationMode: 'foreground'
            authenticationRequired: no
            destructive: yes
            behavior: 'default'
          - identifier: 'DISARMALARM'
            title: 'Disarm Alarm'
            activationMode: 'foreground'
            authenticationRequired: no
            behavior: 'default'

alarm_control_panel:
  - platform: manual_mqtt
    state_topic: "home/alarm"
    command_topic: "home/alarm/set"
    triggered:
      pending_time: 60
    armed_home:
      pending_time: 0
    armed_away:
      pending_time: 90
2

Do you know how i can start the screen from ha?

My idea is automate when i enter my room, the tablet will start up with my ha interface.

Any idea?

3

Probably best to start your own thread asking this question, rather than hijack mine (which no one has helped with anyway)

4

Lets fix this together, instead of being angry about i wrote a comment about my issue.

5

First of all I’m noob. So it might not be 100% correct.
From your automation
Alarm Arm Away, condition state: armed_away you might need quote ’
Alarm Sound, to: triggered might need quote ’
Alarm Disarm, to: disarmed might need quote ’
Alarm Annunciator Triggered, to: triggered might need quote ’
Alarm Annunciator Countdown: to: pending might need quote ’
Alarm Annunciator Armed Home, to: armed_home might need quote ’
Alarm iOS Triggered Notify, to: triggered might need quote ’

6

Hello @Kevin_Patrick, have you solved your problem?

I see the scene.panic being turned_on at Alarm sound automation but its not being turned_off at Alarm Disarm might that be the problem?

7

Thanks, that’s a good thought but the Panic scene is actually a Wink shortcut, which fires once and that’s it.