New to HA, need help arming arlo when envisalink is armed

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Hello. I just set up home assistant on a new Raspberry Pi today. Everything is going well, and I was able to get my envisalink and my arlo cameras working with alarm panels that I could manually arm and disarm. But I want to have HA arm Arlo when I arm my home alarm. I am having a hard time knowing how to check the state of my alarm, or to intercept an event, etc, and then I also don’t know how to call the arlo service to arm the base station. I have been searching and searching, but I can’t seem to find anything very definitive.

Thanks in advance!

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If you look at the dev-state/ entries by clicking on the <> symbol under developer tools you will see the current state of each one of all your entities.

The entry for your alarm is probably pretty similar to this picture:
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You can then use the state change as a trigger and arm you cameras - I have no idea how to do the latter, though, because I don’t have an Arlo camera.

- alias: 'Envisalink triggers Arlo'
  trigger:
    platform: state
    entity_id: alarm_control_panel.home_alarm
    from: 'disarmed'
  action:
    service: whatever.you.need.here

You might want to give the trigger details some thought.
Instead of from: disarmed you could also use to: armed_away

If you read around a little more on the forum you might even find an exact match for the code you need.

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Hi @Steve973 - did you get this sorted out?

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Hey, sorry that this reply is three years late. I am back to Home Assistant, and trying to get this going again. Thank you for your reply. I will see if this can get me started. I had it working very nicely sometime around three years ago.