I’m new to all of this: Home Assistant, MQTT, PAI.
I have had my alarm for 5 years.
I have a Paradox Alarm, panel: MG5050.
I have a IP150 linked up and can see it in my router.
IP150 has a static IP. I can view IP150 webUI.
I have installed Home Assistant on RPi 4.
I have installed MQTT Broker add-on.
I have installed PAI (Paradox Alarm Interface) add-on.
I’M HAVING DIFFICULTY CONFIGURING THESE 3.
The PAI wiki/documentation is extremely dodgy and confusing to follow.
The steps I tried:
Created a new user with admin rights via Home Assistant Configuration-Users.
My MQTT broker configuration I left as default. Didn’t change anything here. Unsure what to do here.
Then I tried configurating PIA but add-ons log give the following error:
“ ERROR - PAI.paradox.connections.protocols - Connection was closed: None
2020-10-04 19:03:12,395 - ERROR - PAI.paradox.connections.connection - Connection was lost
2020-10-04 19:03:14,396 - ERROR - PAI.paradox.connections.ip.connection - Timeout while establishing connection.
What am I doing wrong?
Please help me understand how this whole setup is suppose to work and the 3 building blocks suppose to talk to one another.
I am having a similar if not identical issue but it may be related to my IP150 running firmware v4.20.008. I am still investigating and will keep you updated as it may help.
Hello partners. I have the same system and I had no problems configuring. If you still continue with the problem, do not hesitate to answer. All the best.
I’ve also been looking into integrating my MG5050 into Home Assistant. I’m no dev my background is more on it infrastructure and architecture.
I could get this to work with a lot of tinkering and noted the following: (my observations)
To use any of the integrations, you cannot use Insight Gold. IP150 only allows one connection at a time. This also explains when using Babyware, integrations and Insight Gold will stop working.
All the solutions simulate logging into the IP150 web console and then pulling the info from there (using some sort of a wrapper).
IP150 firmware version definately play a roll. Newer versions are connected to Paradox which auto updates. Think v4
Ideal would be that IP150 could log to a syslog (or simlar type) server and I could use that logstream to trigger on events picked up. But it does not look that IP150 have that option and Paradox are planning to introduce it.
