[Custom Component] Alarmo - browser managed alarm system

Hi,

Alarmo is really a very nice integration :+1: I still have one question left to which I can not find the answer:


What is the meaning of: ā€˜Activation Timeā€™ ? What happens after ā€˜30 minā€™ ?

I think the activation time is: if the room is disturbed (and nothing happens further), then after the set time has elapsed, the alarm will return to room security mode.

This depends on your z-wave siren. The siren integration only allows you to turn it on or off, similar to a normal switch. This is also the support that Alarmo provides.
Alarmo does not include any device specific behaviour, so it has no idea how to play a different tone for you.

In my experience the tone is configured in the z-wave settings, and the siren will only play that tone when it is turned on. If your device allows to change this directly when enabled, maybe you can enter this command in YAML mode of the alarmo editor.

The alarmo entity will perform state transition e.g. armed_away ā†’ triggered when a sensor triggers.
The activation time defines how long the entity should remain triggered.
Afterwards you can choose to automatically disarm the system, or return to armed_away (there is a setting on the top of that page for it).

The description ā€œtijd waarin de sirene af gaatā€ is not very accurate, we should change this.
The alarm will not do anything out-of-the-box.
The idea is that you create extra rules/automations to turn on sirens, send push messages, etc. when the alarm is triggered (and separate rules to turn them off afterwards).

indeed :+1:
Nice to see you joined here as well after scheduler :slight_smile:
Hope both my projects are useful for you.

I really like to use both projects and I am satisfied how they work.
Keep up the great work. :+1:

Could you open an issue for follow-up on this?
I tried to cast to my Nest Hub using catt (Iā€™m not a nabu casa user), but I failed.
Perhaps you can help :+1:

Anyway to hide some of the buttons from the alarm panel? I only want ā€˜Arm Awayā€™ available

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Disable unused in alarm mode settings.

I thought I did? Or is there another setting that controls this?

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Yes, you can disable it here. Remember to save the settings.

Re-add your alarm panel in UI. When you select it, remove the states you donā€™t want. You probably selected first the alarm panel in the UI and then started configuring Alarmo.

If you use alarmo-card, it will automatically detect the modes you have enabled for the alarm (area) and show only those.

If you use the alarm panel card for lovelace, you have to configure manually which buttons should show up.

Using alarmo-card is highly recommended, since it offers better functionality and looks almost identical.
In the next update you are also able to customise which text shows in the buttons etc.
More to comeā€¦

Thanks all, turned on the theme I was using had the modes hardcoded in it! All sorted now.

guys please help me. i have an automation if my phone is not at home and the open_sensors is empty arm away. the only problem is the open_sensors updated when the automation runs and check open_sensors. before arm open-sensors empty after automation its refreshed with the opened sensor but only after run not before. i check the open_sensors with this template {{ state_attr(ā€œalarm_control_panel.homeā€, ā€œopen_sensorsā€) == none }}

any advise?

THX

The open_sensors property should not be used as a condition for arming.
It is intended to indicate the reasons (if any) of why the arming failed or why the alarm was triggered.
The list will not change when you open doors etc.

Alarmo does not keep track of sensor events at all times (especially not while disarmed).
If you want to check the actual states of your sensors, better use them directly in your conditions.

When editing an action with yaml code instead of UI based settings it defaults to UI mode and wipes out most of the data.
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That is because you use different yaml format than it is designed for:

  1. Alarmo does not support target, you may only provide an entity_id (no device)
  2. data should be replaced by service_data

Got it. Guess I should learn to read.

  • service: light.turn_on
    entity_id: light.test_yeelight
    service_data:
    color_name: red

Having an issue the the Alarmo integration. Iā€™m not able to get the failed to arm message if one of my door sensors is open. the door sensor will trigger the system if armed and then opened. Iā€™m using a ecolink zigbee door contact with ZHA integration. I changed the device class from opening to door to see if this would change anything. When tested I had t doo open and set the alarm. It performed the countdown and armed as normal even with the door open. Iā€™m not sure if I have anything configured wrong. I would like to have this feature working since my daughter has been leaving the door open behind her if sheā€™s the last one to leave the house.
Iā€™m also looking for any automation ideas to add to my alarm configuration as well.

Please try installing alarmo-card in your HA setup (it is available on HACS).
It will show the failed to arm cause in the card, that way we can exclude whether itā€™s just a problem of the automation sending a notification or other.

Sounds like how it should work right?

Please check and share the sensor configuration in alarmo for this particular entity.
If configured correctly it should not allow you to arm the system when open (unless you configured to automatically bypass).

Thanks for the reply. I have already installed the Alarmo-card in HA and currently using . I have attached an image of the sensor in Alarmo. Iā€™m not sure if this is what you are looking for. All my door sensors come in as Binary sensors. I do not see an option to auto bypass with in Alarmo