NEW MQTT Alarm Control Panel

Configuration
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Hi all,
so I embarked into recompiling my yaml files as I understand that the current way I am using for sensors and alarm control panel will be “discontinued” as per the warning “This stops working in version 2022.12.0. Please address before upgrading.”

So, in the manual it states a very simple example however that doesn’t suite in my case as I have two alarm zones and the example is given only for one. There are people with many more zones then me, so the advise /solution will help many.

I currently have the following in my alarm_control_panel.yaml

- platform: mqtt
  state_topic: 'paradox/alarm/state/1'
  command_topic: 'paradox/alarm/cmnd/1'
  name: Inside Alarm
  payload_disarm: "DISARM"
  payload_arm_away: "ARM_AWAY"
  qos: 1
  code_disarm_required: true
  code_arm_required: false

- platform: mqtt
  state_topic: 'paradox/alarm/state/2'
  command_topic: 'paradox/alarm/cmnd/2'
  name: Outside Alarm
  payload_disarm: 'DISARM'
  payload_arm_home: 'ARM_HOME'
  payload_arm_away: 'ARM_AWAY'
  qos: 1
  code_disarm_required: true
  code_arm_required: false

and from reading the documentation, I thought it was supposed to be like this:

mqtt:
  alarm_control_panel:
   
    - name: "Inside Alarm"
      state_topic: "paradox/alarm/state/1"
      command_topic: "paradox/alarm/cmnd/1"
      payload_disarm: "DISARM"
      payload_arm_away: "ARM_AWAY"
      qos: 1
      code_disarm_required: true
      code_arm_required: false

    - name: "Outside Alarm"
      state_topic: "paradox/alarm/state/2"
      command_topic: "paradox/alarm/cmnd/2"
      payload_disarm: 'DISARM'
      payload_arm_home: 'ARM_HOME'
      payload_arm_away: 'ARM_AWAY'
      qos: 1
      code_disarm_required: true
      code_arm_required: false

This has an error and does not work :frowning:

On the alarm sensors, currently I have sensors like this:

- platform: mqtt
  state_topic: 'paradox/zone/state/6'
  name: "Study"
  payload_on: "on"
  payload_off: "off"
  qos: 1
  device_class: motion

- platform: mqtt
  state_topic: 'paradox/zone/state/19'
  name: "Lounge"
  payload_on: "on"
  payload_off: "off"
  qos: 1
  device_class: motion

and I am hoping that this is the correct way to convert (not sure just yet as I still need to resolve the alarm panel)

mqtt:
  binary_sensor:

    - name: "Study"
      state_topic: "paradox/zone/state/6"
      payload_on: "on"
      payload_off: "off"
      qos: 1
      device_class: motion

    - name: "Lounge"
      state_topic: "paradox/zone/state/19"
      payload_on: "on"
      payload_off: "off"
      qos: 1
      device_class: motion

Will this work?

Please help :slight_smile:

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What’s the error?

3

“Invalid config for [alarm_control_panel]: required key not provided @ data[‘platform’]. Got None. (See /config/configuration.yaml, line 53).”

Which now points to configuration.yaml this section here:

# MQTT
mqtt:
  broker: core-mosquitto
  port: 1883
  discovery: true
  client_id: home-assistant
  username: !secret mqtt_username
  password: !secret mqtt_password

the “username” line
:flushed:

EDIT: Never mind, I found an open issue with the problem I’m experiencing

I guess I’ll have to wait for the fix first, or try and see what happens :slight_smile: