Homekit Alarm failing to arm/disarm due to invalid code

Configuration
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Hello!
I have the following manual alarm created + HomeKit component:

alarm_control_panel:
  - platform: manual
    name: Home Alarm
    code: '1234'
    arming_time: 30
    delay_time: 20
    trigger_time: 4
    disarmed:
      trigger_time: 0
    armed_home:
      arming_time: 0
      delay_time: 0      

homekit:
  - entity_config:
      alarm_control_panel.home_alarm:
        code: '1234'

Every time I try to arm/disarm the alarm through HomeKit App, homeAssistant raises the following error:

2020-08-24 10:23:48 WARNING (SyncWorker_47) [homeassistant.components.manual.alarm_control_panel] Invalid code given for armed_home

As you can see, both codes are correct.

Any idea?

Thanks in advance

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Hi! did you solve the problem?

3

I’m having the exact same issue, the codes match and the homekit was originally set up inside the GUI. I don’t know if it is not respecting the config.yaml file or if there is something else going on.

4

My problem was that I had the HomeKit integration set up by the GUI, and the configuration from the YAML file was not being picked up. I removed the HomeKit integration from the Integrations Menu; and redid it on the configuration.yaml file, and it was working as expected

5

Did you find a solution to this not involving the manual configuration? I tried adding the lines about the code in the config file but it does not seem to be possible to use both the integration and manual configuration and since I have more entities to be added to Homekit and I am new to this, I would prefer to stick with the GUI.

6

Was anybody able to solve this issue of the Homekit GUI not allowing pin code parameter?

I solved it by exposing a HA script which disarm the alrm with the code and then exposed this script as a momentary switch in homekit… but it is not super elegant

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