I’m just starting to do some research into switching over to HA. The only trhing I can’t seem to veirfy is if the alarm panels are accessible remotely, via nabu casa? (We can open up a phone app a disarm the alarm easily)
You can put an alarm card on a dashboard and control the alarm that way, if that’s what you mean.
I believe so. It just wasn’t entirely clear of the alarm panel would be accessible remotely from what I read. Appreciate the response.
Welcome!
The answer here is really dependent on which Alarm Panel you are talking about. There are many different types and brands of alarm panel out there. What is the exact type of alarm panel you are hoping to connect up with Home Assistant? Some are easy to connect, others take a bit of effort, and a few are proprietary and locked down so connection with HA is not feasible.
And just to be clear, most alarm panels aren’t directly accessible via HA. But rather, and what Matthew indicated above, you can build a connection path something like: Alarm Panel ↔ Home Assistant ↔ Remote access to Home Assistant. This would give you the effective ability to access and control the panel remotely using HA.
If there is an integration for HA for your panel, then yes. Anything integrated with HA shows up as entities and all entities are accessible within HA, remotely or locally (at least until a permission scheme is implemented). It is possible to mark a dashboard view as admin only, but it’s hardly a strong security measure. You can also opt to have a PIN on your control panel. There are some nifty 3rd party cards you can use too, but I personally just use the tile card.