Basic help with a basic alarm panel

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[SOLVED] I want to create an alarm panel in HA.

I read this
https://scotthelme.co.uk/creating-a-house-alarm-system-with-home-assistant/
Scott said it is “really simple”…that’s my kind of language…

I have also read the documentation here

My configuration.yaml file looks like this

# Configure a default setup of Home Assistant (frontend, api, etc)
default_config:

# Text to speech
tts:
  - platform: google_translate

group: !include groups.yaml
automation: !include automations.yaml
script: !include scripts.yaml
scene: !include scenes.yaml

# Example configuration.yaml entry
alarm_control_panel:
  - platform: manual

I then created a new dashboard called ‘Alarm’ and clicked the button to add a card

HA-alarm1
HA-alarm11589×468 82.2 KB

but then I got this:
HA-alarm2
HA-alarm21657×682 45.8 KB

I’ve tried copying other examples from here but I am obviously missing something.
What’s not obvious (to me) is what I am missing…?

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Hello,

Try to install the Alarmo integration.
It’s simple to configure.

3

Thanks for your prompt response.
Alarmo looks very interesting although the process to get there (eg. install HACS, use SSH) looks challenging (for me).
I’ll give it a go, though.
Thanks again.

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@barroco69 Thank you so much for that.
The process wasn’t as bad as I feared.
During the installation of the Alarmo integration I got “Configuration Invalid!” and I found that I had left the old ‘alarm_control_panel’ in configuration.yaml.
Once I had deleted that the integration installed as required and I now have a functioning alarm panel.
Thanks again!