Simplisafe & Reolink

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Does anyone know how I could set an automation to trigger the Simplisafe Alarm?

I have door sensors, motion detectors, cameras, and glass break sensors (all Simplisafe) for inside the home. I have Ring doorbells and Blink cameras outside. I’d like to move away form cloud services and get a Reolink system for the doorbells and outside cameras.

Is there a way to set an automation that would trigger the Simplisafe alarm/siren if out of the outside cameras detects a person at the door? I have looked in Automations, Scripts, etc. but can’t seem to figure out a way to trigger the Siren.

My other idea was to see if there was a way to tie motion or person detection to trigger the glass break sensor or flip the state of the binary door sensors but I’m stuck.

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Hi, have you seen this: SimpliSafe - Home Assistant

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Yes - I have the Simplisafe integration up & working in HA - I can start an automation that picks up (For example) the motion detection of an outside camera - but it will not let me choose the action of triggering the alarm/siren or even change the state of the door sensor (to trick the system into triggering the alarm/siren).

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So apparently, you can read certain states and change settings of the system but not trigger the alarm.

In Developer tools you can manually change the state for e.g. that door sensor but I’m searching if that can be done by an automated action…

EDIT: @petro because I was curious if/how this can be solved (using the door sensor to trigger the alarm if movement on a cam) and found the set_state.py script but you advised not to use it.
Any suggestions on how to achieve what OP is after?

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Yes in the developer tools I can change the state of the door sensor (which should in theory trigger the siren if the system was armed) but, I could not find a way to do that outside of the developer tools. - Thanks,

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Doing that wouldn’t trigger the alarm though. That just overwrites the state in the state machine.

Typically if you want a state to represent something physical, you’d make a template sensor with your logic while keeping the original entity in tact.

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Thanks. Do you know of any documentation or a video that might explain that concept further. I’m trying to learn but do not know how to code something like that.