Help choosing an HA-friendly security alarm system

[FriedCheese (Ryan)]

See these two:

DIY Alarm w/ added monitoring (Qolsys IQ Panel 4)

I’ve been using Home Assistant for years now, but have always just used the generic DIY alarm panel built into HA. I’ve configured automations to trigger alarms (lights, sounds, notifications) all based on Zwave sensors around the house. I would like to add some monitoring to my system via alarm.com and was looking at getting the Qolsys IQ Panel 4 to accomplish this. Since I already have my system configured the way I like it, is there a way to just use the Qolsys IQ Panel 4 as a secondary sy…

Qolsys iq4 integration help please!

You need to: Install the MQTT broker add-on Create an account to use for MQTT. This is a service account. Create it just like you would a user in HA. Install the MQTT integration. Install the Appdaemon add-on. Go to the Appdaemon YAML (/config/Appdaemon) and add the account from step 2 as the client user. Install HACS Follow the instructions to install the Qolsys integration. Follow the rest of the instructions starting here.