Siren Activation/Manual Alarm Fails to Trigger

Well that was it! I changed all the sensors to ‘on’ instead of ‘open’ and the alarm works!

Thanks to everyone that responded. Very much appreciated.

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How did you determine the port for each of your konnected devices?

What type of switch are you using for the siren? I’m looking for a loud alarm/siren that I can trigger through HA.

Able to activate siren - unable to deactivate
I have an odd issue where I can trigger the siren when the alarm activates (triggered) but unable to turn it off with disarmed. Any pointers on what I may be doing wrong?

  - alias: Activate Alarm
    trigger:
      - entity_id: alarm_control_panel.house
        platform: state
        to: 'triggered'
    action:
      - entity_id: switch.siren
        type: turn_on


  - alias: Deactivate Alarm
    trigger:
      - entity_id: alarm_control_panel.house
        platform: state
        to: 'disarmed'
    action:
      - entity_id: switch.siren
        type: turn_off

As a note I am using BWALARM integation.

I also tried this

- alias: Activate Alarm
  trigger:
    entity_id: alarm_control_panel.house
    platform: state
    to: 'triggered'
  action:
    entity_id: switch.siren
    service: switch.turn_on

- alias: Deactivate Alarm
  trigger:
    entity_id: alarm_control_panel.house
    platform: state
    to: 'disarmed'
  action:
    entity_id: switch.siren
    service: switch.turn_off
        

It turns on, but will not turn off

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