Alarm not staying on after closing door

Configuration Zigbee
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Hi,

I setup an alarm system on home assistant trough zha and alarmo, and while everything else works fine, I have an issue. When I trigger the alarm when it’s armed with a door opening sensor and then close the door, the sirens shutdown. That kind of defeat the purpose of an alarm i guess, so I’m wondering what could be wrong with my configuration ? I looked around internet and found nothing similar. My alarmo setup is pretty basic, I have a single action that, when one of my door sensor when my alarm is armed, trigger some sirens. I have the time the alarm stays on after being triggered set at 10 minutes (last option under each alarm mode).

Thanks for the help !

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We need to see your code.

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I’m more than willing to provide it, but I don’t knwo where to find it. If you could point me toward it, it would be great :slight_smile: Just so you know I used the basic built-in system of alarmo to setup my alarm. I selected my sensors (3 siren, 5 door detectors) and I programmed an action when the alarm is triggered.

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Is your door contact sensor set to “Show as door”?

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And in Alarmo, is the sensor set to the same device type?

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They were all set on “opening” (or something equivalent as my HA is not in english). I changed them to “door”, but it didn’t change anything.

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After further researches I fairly certain of what’s going on. First of all sirens are notriously badly handled on HA, I wasn’t aware of that. Second, my specific siren (HS2WD-E) is known to not expose everything on ZHA and even on Z2M it needs a lot of tweaks to be functional. In Fact for the siren to stay I need to be able to access directly in the siren dashboard a cursor to set the duration when triggered, it’s not done in alarmo. As it’s not visible, I apparently need to use an automation, which is not very simple for a new user like. What a bummer, everything was going smoothly apart from that. Link to someone explaining : https://smarthomescene.com/reviews/heiman-zigbee-alarm-siren-hs2wd-e-review/

I didn’t understand everything in there, but i’ll dive in and see what I can do with my siren. My smoke detectors (FRIENT SMSZB-120) have the same problem, being triggered only for a short time.