Hey Y’all,
I’ve searched around and couldn’t find a topic discussing this, so please bear with me while I try and paint a picture .
I’ve been running Home Assistant for about 6 months and have a HA system that uses Z-wave, Zigbee, Insteon, and some IP based devices, probably 40 devices total, all working fine. (Prior to that I was using Indigo).
The system also has a AD2Pi/AlarmDecoder device to the Vista 20P. The Vista 20P has 8 native zones, and 4 expander zones emulated by the Alarmdecoder. The native zones in the AlamDecoder integration are visible and functional in HA.
So let’s just talk about zone 9, for the Garage doors. When I defined it in the AlarmDecoder integration, it automatically created a binary_sensor.network_closet_192_168_0_14_10000_zone_09_alarmdecoder_garage_doors, which is just a pseudo sensor, there’s no hardware on the panel to update that sensor, but I do have (working) Insteon-based garage door sensors I plan to use to trigger the zone (if possible).
What’s the simplest way to trigger the garage door zone on the alarm when my garage doors open?
I tried to set up an automation, but there’s no obvious way to change the state of the binary_sensor.network_closet_192_168_0_14_10000_zone_09_alarmdecoder_garage_doors
thanks
Sensors are set by the backend and you can only read them.
If you want the
to trigger something, as they are also sensors, you would need to do an and or an or with the alarm sensor to have HA do what you want.
If you are trying to feed the inseton info into the alarm panel, there is likely a hardware place to do that.
In the HA context sensors are read only.
Thanks for the reply, Yah, knowing what I know about the interface and the integration , I don’t think there’s a simple solution . The only thing that’s going to fault this virtual zone is a way to toggle the virtual sensor HA created for it.
Ideally HA could use something to create a virtual sensor which has the ability to be toggled (fault/clear) to trigger an alarm fault on the virtual zone. That’s how it was previously accomplished in the Indigo platform. Nevertheless, I’m very happy with HA. 