[Custom Component] Alarmo - browser managed alarm system

robvandegoor · October 14, 2023, 10:45am

@atburgoyne It looks like you made a typo.

It is not arm_night but armed_night same for arm_arway, should be armed_away.

{% if is_state("alarm_control_panel.alarmo", 'armed_away') %} 
    mdi:shield-home
  {% endif %}
  {% if is_state("alarm_control_panel.alarmo", 'armed_night') %} 
    mdi:shield-moon
  {% endif %}
  {% if is_state("alarm_control_panel.alarmo", 'disarmed') %} 
    mdi:shield-off
  {% endif %}

  {% if is_state("alarm_control_panel.alarmo", 'disarmed') %} 
    green
  {% else %} 
    red
  {% endif %}

If you want to put it in 2 lines, then this could also be a solution:

{{ states('alarm_control_panel.alarmo') | replace("armed_away", "mdi:shield-home") | replace("armed_night", "mdi:shield-moon") | replace("disarmed", "mdi:shield-off")}}
{{ iif(is_state("alarm_control_panel.alarmo", "disarmed"), "green", "red")}}

atburgoyne · October 15, 2023, 4:12am

Thanks for that catch!

Do you have any ideas how I can trigger this Alarmo popup in the tap_action section?

robvandegoor · October 16, 2023, 4:49pm

Do you mean via an automation like this?

Chaoscontrol · October 17, 2023, 11:41am

How can I create an automation using the “Entry delay” or “Exit delay” states from outside Alarmo (for more customization of actions)?
I cannot find those states and would like to add some broadcasts when the alarm gets into the entry delay period.

Edit: found it. It’s the pending state.

BigBahJohn · October 17, 2023, 3:02pm

I have been running Alarmo for several months, working great. Recently I had a couple instance of Alarmo arming Home without any reason I can find.

The most recent occurred this morning after disarming it a couple hours before. No automations or Scripts had run at the time of the occurrence.

The logbook had:

2nd New Alarmo changed to Arming triggered by service alarmo.arm
7:30:51 AM - 31 minutes ago - John McClelland
Time changed to 07:30
7:30:00 AM - 31 minutes ago
Time changed to 07:29
7:29:00 AM - 32 minutes ago

The System Log had:

This error originated from a custom integration.

Logger: custom_components.alarmo.alarm_control_panel
Source: custom_components/alarmo/alarm_control_panel.py:361
Integration: Alarmo (documentation, issues)
First occurred: 7:30:51 AM (1 occurrences)
Last logged: 7:30:51 AM

Cannot go to state armed_home from state arming.

Not sure how to chase it down any further. Help appreciated.

pjmarcum · October 27, 2023, 9:19pm

I can’t seem to get the alarm to trigger. I have set it to send a notification to my phone just to test. When I do “try it” on the notification action I get the notification. I have motion sensors assigned to the “Night” mode. I turn the alarm on using Alarmo Card, go to the Sensors tab in Alarmo and wave my hand in front of one of the sensors. I can see the icon for that sensors change on the Sensors tab. However, I never get the notification on my device. On the history dashboard I can see where the alarm is being armed and disarmed but there is never any trigger actions happening. Any idea how I can resolve this?

Danhass · November 5, 2023, 7:20pm

Yes! I’m not going crazy. I’ve been going over my few automations, as I recently had to redo my home assistant setup due to a backup failure.

I also have home assistant randomly set itself to arm home about twice every 24 hours.

You are the first I have found discuss this bug

BigBahJohn · November 9, 2023, 11:12pm

For me it has not happened again. But still concerned that it happened at all!

LeiChat · November 13, 2023, 12:30pm

Any recommendations for a ZHA compatible siren that I could use with Alarmo, please?

There’s a TUYA based one (Moes/Coolcam/etc) that I understand only works with Zigbee2MQTT.

sgoffman · November 16, 2023, 7:04pm

Just getting started with Alarmo, and so far it seems like a very slick implementation!

One request, though: I’d like a system option to either set the default “Bypass” state to On, or to make the Bypass option sticky (so it doesn’t reset to off after every disarm).

Reason: My alarm dashboard always displays any open doors/windows, so I should be able to just “Arm” since I already know about any potential security holes.

Thanks for your great work!

sentur · November 20, 2023, 8:39am

Is there a way to expose / capture the name of the person who armed Alarmo? For use in an automation or template sensor?

E.g. a family member has a bespoke Alarmo code. I’d like to track when this code has been used so that it affects other things in Home Assistant. Like lights working in different ways or certain automations that don’t make sense / confuse a family guest.

syphernl · November 20, 2023, 9:34am

You can get the name from the changed_by attribute of the alarm_control_panel entity.

sentur · November 20, 2023, 11:47am

I must have missed that. Thank you.

Generationgav · November 27, 2023, 11:10am

Got up and running with Alarmo and very happy with it with a few little touches such as a hidden RFID sticker that me or my wife can “tap” to change alarm modes.

Is there a way to automatically set the alarm to Alarm Away without the exit delay.

I’m not sure if it’s also related to this; “Arm the alarm in force” which I’m not sure what this means?

Also is there a way to create an override notification on Home Assistant? Basically if my Home Alarm is going off I’d like my phone to do more than a possible silent/hidden notification.

Generationgav · November 29, 2023, 9:55am

Would still be interested to know what “Arm the alarm in force”
Turns out that skip the exit delay is an option as soon as you set up an automation, which is nice.
I’ve also worked out notification channels which have helped somewhat.

bshaw · December 1, 2023, 2:39am

Hi Niels,

I’m trying to install alarmo on a Debian 11 HA supervised installation following your manual installation instructions. I unzip all the alarmo.zip file in my config/custom_components and restart HA, but that’s as far as I get.

Step 3 says ’ 1. Go to Configuration → Integrations and click the big orange ‘+’ button. Look for Alarmo and click to add it.’

Do you mean in the web browser attached to the HA server? If so, I don’t have ‘Configuration → Integrations’ . Do you mean Settings->Devices & services->Integrations? If so the big button is blue and it doesn’t show up in that list.

It seems I’m missing something pretty basic again :-(.

Thanks,

Bill

bshaw · December 1, 2023, 3:10pm

Never mind. Reading through this thread I find it needs to be in the ‘custom_components/alarmo’ directory.

Bill

Charly_X · December 17, 2023, 2:38pm

Hi, I’m using a Google Home mini which was lying around…

Charly_X · December 17, 2023, 2:46pm

I’m using Alarmo for some time now and I’m very happy with all the options. It works like a charm!!

Now lately I notices the following in HA logs:

This error originated from a custom integration.

Logger: custom_components.alarmo.alarm_control_panel
Source: custom_components/alarmo/alarm_control_panel.py:354
Integration: Alarmo (documentation, issues)
First occurred: 14:36:46 (1 occurrences)
Last logged: 14:36:46

Cannot go to state disarmed from state disarmed.

Is there some setting I have to change, because every time somebody leaves the house and someone is still at home, this happens.
Hope it’s something simple

sparkydave · December 17, 2023, 11:59pm

I’m guessing you have an automation setup which is doing this. Find the automation and put a condition in it to prevent it trying to disarm the alarm if it is already disarmed.