New to HA. Haven’t seen much info on Simplisafe (SS). Thought I’d provide some info that’s not mentioned. Perhaps will help others. Their API requires monthly monitoring service. It’s cellular based, and if you’re unfortunate to live where services are now much worse-you get no help. In order for HA to work, it must make network hops to SS via the cloud. Because SS devices rely on 433mhz radios. This makes it impossible for HA to communicate directly with the devices. So guessing I’ll have to replace devices. However, I may decide to use a radio sniffer, reverse engineer their 433mhz devices, crack their protocol, and design a logic board to solve my problem.
Doesn’t the Simplisafe hub also support wifi? The latest version does at least. Still requires cloud polling but at least it’s not using cellular.
If you want to use the sensors in Home Assistant, Abode would have been the better option. HA only supports the Simplisafe alarm control panel.
Make sure to check the components section of the HA website thoroughly to see exactly what components are supported. Search for Abode, and you can see that the sensors, lights, cameras, control panel are supported.
I think I read somewhere that some people were able to use pilight to intercept simplisafe sensors.
Thanks for the info. I’m a semi-retired software engineer. I’m aware of abode, but if I’m going to replace the SS devices - then I might as well just go all zwave and buy a zwave controller for raspi. Like that idea because I can send secondary signal offsite with custom plug-in. Via my own radio design.
Looks like i can use an rtl-sdr, the rtl433 library, and a few other tricks of the trade to gain direct control of the SS v2 devices. Integration would require a bit of custom hardware and an HA plugin. So if I go that route, I’ll post an update. Thanks
I have been trying to setup my home assistant server and link our Simplisafe camera, censors, etc. It let me setup the integration but didn’t create any entities or devices. Searches keep pointing back to the home assistant page on API. No articles to help.
So if I am to understand if I don’t buy the home assistant cloud service then simplisafe devices and entities will never be available?