Community Hass.io Add-on: Paradox Alarm Interface

[tmkmarius (Marius T.)]

Wonderful addon.
Can two alarm systems be integrated?

[ktfzone]

Later edit : I had issues connecting because I had PC password set to 1000 . I checked the FAQ and I saw that we should avoid 0 there, so I changed it to something else and it connected right away.

[smdx]

Any link where I can find info on this?

[cailloux44]

Hello everyone,
First of all, congrats and thanks a lot for this outstanding work.
I have a SP6000 coupled with IP 150 and I was wondering whether it is possible go have both HA and Insite Gold connected at the same time. If not, do you think this is somehting that would be sorted out?

Thanks in advance,

[vpateri]

Hi Trilly
how did you manage to show other stuff in home assistant apart from sensors and pgm?
Thank you

[ZAAJR (Allan)]

Did you sort out the bypass/clear zone switches? If not, then look here: Community Hass.io Add-on: Paradox Alarm Interface

[ZAAJR (Allan)]

My system is working very well, but I am not able to use a code to arm/disarm the alarm. I can see a keypad underneath the Arm Home and Arm Away buttons, but I can arm it by just pressing one of those buttons without entering a code, likewise by pressing the Disarm button when it is armed. Am I missing a trick somewhere?

[georgelza (George)]

My system is configured to arm/disarm without a code.

see the code_arm_required: false that removes the pin pad.

alarm_control_panel:
  - platform: mqtt
    name: "Alarm-Part1"
    command_topic: "paradox/my/control/partitions/Area_1"
    state_topic: "paradox/states/partitions/Area_1/current_state"
    payload_arm_away: "arm"
    payload_arm_home: "arm_stay"
    payload_arm_night: "arm_sleep"
    payload_disarm: "disarm"
    code_arm_required: false
 

[woody4165 (Woody)]

Hi all

Just trying this addon.

In my configuration I have
MQTT_HOMEASSISTANT_AUTODISCOVERY_ENABLE: true
and in MQTT Explorer I can see the paradox topic with all the information.

What I don’t find are the enities in HA.

Here are my firmwares

In Configuration -> Integrations -> I don’t see any new integration (rebooted HA).

What can I check?

Another question is regarding the usage of the official mobile app when PAI is running.
I’m using IP150 module to connect to PAI, so
CONNECTION_TYPE: IP

but when I try to use the Paradox mobile app, it tells me that someone else is connected to the system.

Thanks

[yozik04 (Jevgeni Kiski)]

It works via MQTT.

[woody4165 (Woody)]

Yes, I see, thanks!
So what is written here is not valid? Regarding MQTT_HOMEASSISTANT_AUTODISCOVERY_ENABLE and “Configuration -> Integrations” or there are restrictions?

[Shaad (David)]

Do you have a MQTT Broker configured ?

[woody4165 (Woody)]

Yes, via MQTT Explorer I can see al the topics and values, I can send command via MQTT.
I was wondering if the PAI addon also creates HA entity since the MQTT_HOMEASSISTANT_AUTODISCOVERY_ENABLE is set to true.
And if there is some restriction in showing my panel in Integrations as in the wiki

Thanks

[Shaad (David)]

In Integration > MQTT you should find one new Device : your alarm, and if open it, all your entities.

[woody4165 (Woody)]

Thanks.
It’s really strange!!!

I’ve made a test in new HA environment, starting from scratch and the MQTT broker integration looks like this

while in my production HA it’s like this

both have Enable new entities checked

and in the new HA for testing I see the SP6000 and entities.

Really strange!

What can I check in the MQTT Integration?

Thanks again.

PS:
I have removed the MQTT Integration, rebooted, added it again when it appears in the proposed integrations, rebooted again and now it works!
Hope that all others MQTT entities woks as before…
So, my fault…
Thanks

[ZAAJR (Allan)]

I have just rebooted my Raspberry Pi, and for some reason PAI is now trying to connect via Serial, rather than IP.

My config:

LOGGING_FILE: null
LOGGING_LEVEL_CONSOLE: 20
LOGGING_LEVEL_FILE: 40
LOGGING_DUMP_PACKETS: false
LOGGING_DUMP_MESSAGES: false
LOGGING_DUMP_STATUS: false
LOGGING_DUMP_EVENTS: false
CONNECTION_TYPE: IP
SERIAL_PORT: /dev/ttyUSB0
SERIAL_BAUD: 9600
IP_CONNECTION_HOST: 192.168.0.17
IP_CONNECTION_PORT: 10000
IP_CONNECTION_PASSWORD: paradox
IP_CONNECTION_SITEID: null
IP_CONNECTION_EMAIL: null
IP_CONNECTION_PANEL_SERIAL: null
IP_CONNECTION_BARE: false

The error messages in the Log

2021-02-08 14:50:17,052 - INFO     - PAI - Starting Paradox Alarm Interface 2.2.4
2021-02-08 14:50:17,052 - INFO     - PAI - Config loaded from /data/options.json
2021-02-08 14:50:17,053 - INFO     - PAI - Console Log level set to 20
2021-02-08 14:50:17,054 - INFO     - PAI - Starting...
2021-02-08 14:50:17,055 - INFO     - PAI.paradox.paradox - Connecting to interface
2021-02-08 14:50:17,055 - INFO     - PAI.paradox.paradox - Using Serial Connection
2021-02-08 14:50:17,067 - INFO     - PAI.paradox.connections.serial_connection - Connecting to serial port /dev/ttyS1
2021-02-08 14:50:17,067 - INFO     - PAI.paradox.connections.serial_connection - /dev/ttyS1 is not readable/writable. Trying to fix...
2021-02-08 14:50:17,068 - ERROR    - PAI.paradox.connections.serial_connection - Failed to update file /dev/ttyS1 permissions
2021-02-08 14:50:17,069 - ERROR    - PAI.paradox.paradox - Failed to connect to interface
2021-02-08 14:50:17,070 - ERROR    - PAI - Unable to connect to alarm

Any ideas?

[dimitrichko]

Same boat, disabled addon in HA to do some modifications in BabyWare and then restarted to find out it tries serial and ignores all input From config page of addon. In addition to your log i can add System Log

[autoslide (JB)]

Hello all, the same for me.

[Shaad (David)]

+1

Same problem after Supervisor update.

It was working perfectly for months.

[Shaad (David)]

Could this be related to :

Supervisor error after upgrade to supervisor-2021.02.5

Hello, I’m desperate! I’ve just installed supervisor-2021.02.5 and I now can’t access any add-ons, I get an error even when restarting my Raspberry Pi. Why does this happen? how can I fix it? here’s what I’m seeing when trying to access any add-on: [Screen Shot 2021-02-08 at 07.32.28] and I’m getting the following logs: 21-02-08 12:18:34 WARNING (MainThread) [supervisor.addons.validate] Add-on config 'auto_uart' is deprecated, use 'uart'. Please report this to the maintainer of Network UPS…

WARNING (MainThread) [supervisor.addons.validate] Add-on config 'auto_uart' is deprecated, use 'uart'.