[Custom Component] Alarmo - browser managed alarm system

Greetings from Switzerland.

I have installed Alarmo and it was working great.

However, since yesterday The Alarmo Card is not found. I have done everything to reinstalling it, The integration is working however the card has vanished.

Can someone help me please, I really want to use the Alarmo Entity Card?

Regards
ST

Can you try clearing your browser cache?

I have tried doing that it doesnt help.

Strange, I have no idea why you’re so unlucky.
If you’re really desperate you could install the alarmo-card.js in the www folder and add it to your Lovelace resources.
But of course this is not really future-proof since you will not benefit from updates.

Thanks very much. It worked now. I am so relieved.

Any way to make it future update proof through HACS? Any troubleshooting tips?

Also is it possible that the system in away mode or night mode can monitor that if some lights were left on by mistake?

Regards
Sajive

It happened to me once or twice that HACS crashed/did not load, and thus some (not all) integrations loaded through HACS stopped working. Reboot of the entire HA system helped me out.

Did you see any error in the logs? Was the resource loaded (config → dashboards → resources) if not you could try to call the service to reload resources.

Are you sure it wasnt a cache problem? What browser do you use and what did you do to clear cache?

Unfortunately, if I set the state as armed_home and open a door it triggers immediately for me.

Not sure why this is happening, I will need to take another look at my config to see if I can figure it out.

EDIT
I found where my issue was, thanks !

Thanks very much for your response.
I rebooted the whole HA System and thanks to a tip for now i have copied the file alarm-card.js in the www folder and loaded it manually in the resources and it works for now.
I presume i will have a problem when updates come on.

I use Chrome and using the menu More Tools—Clear Browsing Data cleared it.
Thanks again.
Regards
Sajive

Just an update on this, I now have it working perfectly with arm_away, arm_home and disarmed linking with my Paradox alarm system. The issue was in the MQTT topic setup which I find the wording of in the GUI a little confusing. After removing the topic from the ‘event topic’ section completely my setup now works how I want it.

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I’m running HA on a VM in Windows, and occasionally it reboots after an update.
Unfortunately my alarm state does not reinstate after a HA restart.

Can anyone confirm if their alarm state is reinstated after a HA restart when using Alarmo? If not, has anyone found a custom solution please?

Thank you.

Please do.

It should! This is very important.
The only problem is that Alarmo depends on the initialization of your sensors before it can recover (e.g. it cannot go to armed state if a door is initially open).
There is some mechanism inside that will wait for all sensors to get an initial state (rather than unknown/unavailable) before it starts up, with a timeout in case it takes too long.
If you see problems with this, please file a bug report and share some info such that I can help.
For me the state restoration works fine, and it should for all users.

I have a mix of z-wave and Zigbee sensors in my house.

Z-wave

  • Heiman hs1dsz door/window sensors
  • Neo coolcam motion sensors
  • Popp smoke detector with siren
  • Wintop alarm keypad with RFID reader
  • Controller: Aeotec z-stick connected to zwave.js

Zigbee

  • Aqara door/window sensors
  • Aqara motion sensors
  • Controller: CC1352 (TI launchpad) connected to zigbee2mqtt

Initially all was Z-wave but I find the maintenance a bit of a hassle. HA has made quite some transitions to their Z-wave support over the years, I had to rebuild my network a couple of times.
Lately (also because I started using smart bulbs) I prefer Zigbee, so I’m planning to only expand with Zigbee devices from now on.

As said, I don’t experience problems with sensors become unavailable or sensors failing to trigger, so I would assume getting a stable system should be possible for everyone.
In fact, most of my lamps are now motion-activated, so my house kind of relies on them.

I think I spend about €250-€300 on alarm-related HW in total, I think this is quite doable.
But I live in an apartment of only about 75m2 which may help :slightly_smiling_face:
I think the bang-for-bucks ratio for Zigbee is really awesome. Especially if you buy from China.

Hope this is any help for you.

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@neliss

Thank you my friend; it is someone like yourself; and components like this which should be driving HA into every single household.

This component should be included in HA Core. Running awesome here.

Good info; thanks.

Currently running HA on the Blue, flashed Zigbee Bridge and mostly Sonoff stuff. Been very stable for me.

Thank you for all the time and effort you put into your projects. Not very easy I guess.

" …oh, i want this…"
“…this is not working…”
“…can you add this…”
“…blah…blah…”

But you are always there to sort it out; fix or improve it. Hats off to you for that :clap:

Love your work, and thanks again. :+1:

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Just seeing something very odd happening. I have no idea why but I haven’t been getting the alarm notifications I have set in actions anymore and the weird thing is that clicking “try it” , I get the notifications just fine. I am notifying to my HA app. Any place I can dig to find out what is going on? :slight_smile:

I noticed this same thing this week and it took me a while to figure it out. I think this started with the multiple zone capability.

All of my sensors were in the alarmo area, but my actions and notifications were in the undefined zone. So when armed, effectively, I had no actions or notifications.

Clicking on them, I was also not presented a way to change the area.

What worked for me, was adding a dummy ‘test’ area. Then when I went into each action or notification, I was presented with the area selection since there were more than 1, I could set them all to alarmo.

Once I confirmed this was working, then I went back and deleted the ‘test’ area.

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Thanks a lot, I will have a look at this on my side.

That worked, thanks again!

Hi,
I love Yours Alarm customization. It’s quick to set up with plenty of useful features.
I only have 1 question, in Alarmo-card, is there a way to change the modes name to something more customized?
For example “CUSTOM BYPASS” to “SHOPING”.
It could allow me to leave the windows open, when away for a short time (windows are ignored in this mode).

@Zollek

This feature has been requested by many. Hope the dev can create some time to code this in.