Help with adding Alarm.com sensors

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Hello, all! I am brand new to Home Assistant but am ready to take the full plunge.

I’m experimenting with a Virtual Machine running Home Assistant 2020.12.2 (OS 5.9). I’ve successfully added some Kasa (TP-LINK) devices and my Rachio sprinkler controller… but I cannot get the Alarm.com sensors to show up.

Many threads referenced an alarmdotcom custom component/script from here: https://github.com/uvjustin/alarmdotcom

I tried following the instructions listed on the github repository. I copied the custom components to the correct folder. I updated my configurations.yaml file. I put in my credentials to access the alarm.com site…

…but I still am getting errors.

Platform error alarm_control_panel.alarmdotcom - No module named 'pyalarmdotcomajax’

Does anybody know if it is still possible to add the alarm.com sensors to Home Assistant? I read several threads that indicated that this may be removed in the future.

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Hi,
If the component is installed along with its manifest.json file, HA should automatically install the pyalarmdotcomajaxmodule from PyPI. However, for some reason a few users have reported the same issue that you are seeing. I have been unable to reproduce this. A workaround is to manually install the pyalarmdotcomajax module from the command line using pip.
For sensor setup you can look @FlyGuy62N 's thread: Interpreting Alarm.com Sensor State .

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Justin,

Thanks for the reply (and for creating this configuration!). I did copy the custom component (and the manifest.json file is included in this folder).

How do I manually install the pyalarmdotcomajax module from the command line (using pip)?

I installed the “Terminal & SSH” add-on, and can access the terminal (inside of Home Assistant). When I try to run a pip command, it tells me:

bash: pip: command not found

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Justin,

I just tried installing the Alarmdotcom module via HACS and I also completely restarted my VM. Now it is working and I am able to connect to the the alarm.com portal.

Next, I’ll be figuring out how to integrate the sensors and garage door openers into my HA!

Thanks!

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Hey @perfect I was curious if you ever had success installing the other alarm.com devices to home assistant. I’m beginning my journey to migrate away from HomeSeer and into home assistant and while I was able to get the basic alarm.com panel functions working and into my home assistant installation using this community custom integration, I still need to figure out a way to get the alarm motion sensors and contact/door sensors into home assistant.

Part of the current home automation implementation that I have set up uses Hoobs and the Alarmdotcom plugin to inject this into HomeKit, so I know it’s technically possible I’m just trying to find a way to repeat this for home assistant.

Any help is greatly appreciated thanks.

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I too am new to HA. I’ve added the alarmdotcom repository, but when I try to add it as an intergration via configuration the repo does not show up. What am I missing?