Envisalink Zone Status

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Hi Again Coolie…
So I created a new folder called config/alarm_system.yaml as you said.
also added the line include the line alarm_system.yaml in the configuration.yaml file as you instructed.
After fixing several lines the columns were not right I was able to save both configuration.yaml and alarm_system.yaml.
However when I run the Configuration Validation checker in the Server Controls section, it gave the following errors.

Error loading /config/configuration.yaml: while scanning for the next token
found character ‘\t’ that cannot start any token
in “/config/alarm_system.yaml”, line 5, column 15

Any suggestions… ? Thank you again …

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Your indentations are off, see the config sample at Envisalink - Home Assistant

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Be careful using leading zeroes on your zone numbers as this is interpreted as an octal number. This will cause strange behaviors if your system has more than 7 zones. Best not to use them.

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Ok I’ll take a much closer look.
Thanks again.

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Ok. I’m only using 8 zones so I’ll just keep it a single digit for now.
Thanks for your suggestion.

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Seems to be maybe a trailing tab showing on line 5 (and trailing tabs and/or spaces on many other lines). Also the single quotes around opening under Music Recording Studio are typographic quotes, not straight quotes, which might contribute to a future problem if you solve this one.

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I’ll give this a shot this week and see what happens. Thank so much for your help …

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@PCman, it’s been a while, so maybe you’ve already solved your problem. However, do I see a colon (":") in the IP address listed in the host line? That may be a problem.

Also, as mentioned before, don’t use leading zeros for zone numbers as they will get interpreted as octal numbers. It’s not going to be a problem for you now since you only have 5 zones, but it will get in the way as you add anything past 7.

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Hello, and Thank You for following up on my request.
Honestly, I just gave up on using the Envisalink Integration simply because it seemed overly complicated and a couple that tried to help simply gave non-specific examples, so when I tried to convert them to my setup, which I think is very basic, (Just 6 zones) it just didn’t work…(Ughh)
So since then, I’ve only used the Interface (without Home Assistant) to alert me to Arm, Disarm, and of course Alarms. So missing out of the many benefits integrated with HS.
But you may have pointed out a critical Typo of the “;” vs “:” in the IP address line, not sure if that’s but I’m willing to take a look again if you don’t mind overseeing my attempts.
Thank you in advance… I’ll try this in the next few days and hopefully have some success.
Best Regards.

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Sure thing. FWIW, I got the basics of mine to work (I’m new to HA). I’ve only tested a few things though, like seeing doors status changing to opened/closed, seeing motion sensors reporting movement and arming/disarming a partition.

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Thanks for your reply. Maybe I can upload a list of my 6 devices on Envisalink and see what I’m doing wrong. At the moment however I’m occupied trying to figure out why my Tuya Integration is no longer working. Always something LOL… I’ll be back in touch…

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Hello brunokc - I’m also new to HA. I know this is an old thread but I’ve been scouring the internet trying to find help with my issue. HA is able to connect to my Envisalink. I did the standard config and can arm/disarm from HA, as well as see messages from the panel in the “Sensor” dashboard widget. That’s where the good news stops… the whole reason I went down this path was to be to see the status of my various door and motion detectors.

I get the list of “Binary Sensors” which represent my alarm zones, but no matter what I try I can’t get them to update their status when they change.

Would you be willing to share/describe how you got this working?

I think a clue might be in the attributes of the “Home Alarm Keypad” widget. For partition state is says “N/A”.

What does yours say?

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I found this thread with the same situation - I can’t seem to get my zones to report as sensors in HA…

I tried following @Coolie1101’s advice, and split it out as alarm_system.yaml

host: 192.168.1.25
panel_type: HONEYWELL
user_name: user
password: user
code: "8123"
port: 4025
evl_version: 4
keepalive_interval: 60
zonedump_interval: 30
timeout: 10
panic_type: Police
zones:
  2:
    name: "Inside Garage Door"
    type: "opening"
  5:
    name: "Window"
    type: "opening"
    #type: "motion"
  11:
    name: "Front Door"
    type: "opening"
partitions:
  1:
    name: "Home Alarm"

That didn’t do anything good or bad.

Any thoughts on how to get this to report back? Ideally, I wanted to announce through Google speaker when a zone is opened.

Edit: forgot to add that Arm/Disarm works as expected.

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Here is a list of device classes/types for binary sensors so they show up correctly in HA. You also don’t need to put quotes around each type in your yaml config.

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Thank you - I removed the quotes - maybe that’s what did it.

Also - I realized after renaming one of the sensors there’s a duplicate, even though it’s no longer in the configuration file.

I thought someone else reported the same - need to see how to fix that.

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If you go to settings->devices and services-> entities from there search the duplicate and you should be able to delete it since it no longer is attached to an integration

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Thanks - I tried that - but it’s complaining about the Unique ID, and I can’t seem to figure out if i just update it in the Zone section, or somewhere else within HASS…

I’m from the SmartThings world, so this is all an uphill thing for me.

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This entity (‘binary_sensor.foyer_motion’) does not have a unique ID, therefore its settings cannot be managed from the UI. See the documentation for more detail.

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Try completely removing that zone # and name from your config file, restart HA then you should be able to delete the entities.

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I’ve put this integration off for months now but finally resolved to get it working.
First I was told to put the following:

In configuration.yaml add the following to the bottom of the page, assuming you call it alarm_system.yaml

**envisalink: !include alarm_system.yaml**

Then create a file called alarm_system.yaml in the same directory as configuration.yaml, and paste all the your code from your evisalink configuration.yaml file.

However if I try to restart HA, it says it can’t find the “envisalink yaml file”
I also tried to directly put the envisalink integration into the configuration.yaml file, and the tried to restart. No go as it comes up with errors.

So what am I doing wrong here??
Also included the error I get when trying to restart HA with the !include alarm_system.yaml line
Thanks in advance…

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Hey folks, sorry for the delay. I’d be happy to try to help, but I’m stuck at the moment with work and a broken HA. I took the OS update to 9.3 while still running HA 2022.10.3 and now the supervisor won’t start. I’m trying to fix this without starting over. If I can, I’ll report back on what my configuration is. If I can’t get it all to work again, I’ll start over and see if I can get it all working again.