Homebridge Alarm Control

Mobile Apps Home Assistant Companion for Apple
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Hi All,

I have successfully setup a manual alarm_control_panel in HA and I can see it in the Apple Home app.

My question is, how do you control the alarm with Siri? Does anyone know the command?

Cheers.

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Hello @Kanishkaz! How are you?

I’ve managed to insert a Manual Alarm Control Panel on my configuration.yaml but Homebridge does not detect it.

Could you please tell me how you did it?

Thanks!

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Hi,

You need to make sure you have the alarm_control_panel listed as a supported type in the homebridge config.json.

"platforms": [
    {
       "platform": "HomeAssistant",
       "name": "HomeAssistant",
       "host": "https://127.0.0.1:8123",
       "password": "XXXXX,
       "supported_types": ["alarm_control_panel", "automation",  "binary_sensor"],
       "logging": true,
       "verify_ssl": false

}

That’s it.

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Awesome! I did not have “alarm_control_panel” on my config file! Thanks a lot! Have a great day!

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Sorry to dig up an old thread, but I have a similar question as the OP.

I have successfully added my HA alarm into homebridge and it is showing up in Homekit, but when I try to use Siri to enable/disable the alarm, she says: “Sorry, I can’t control your home security system. Visit the Home app for this information.”

Any ideas? Or has apple simply blocked the ability to do this?

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The only way I was able to set my alarm panel with Siri was to set up a scene with whatever state I wanted my security panel to be in. Such as Home: state off and Away: armed. Hope this helps.

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for alarm_control_panel in homebridge

arm (home, away, night) alarm name.
disarm alarm name.