Being a complete beginner, I’m very confused by how to integrate Alarm.com into HA. I’ve read about various questions and answers but I’m having trouble putting all this info into something I can understand and therefore replicate.
I also realize from the discussions that what might work today, may fail tomorrow. If I knew 10 years ago when I had Alarm.com installed compared to what I know now, I would have definitely chosen a more compatible alarm system.
So where can I find a link to a discussion that can help me get started?
Any reply is never late!! Since I posted this question, I did discover how to integrate Alarm.com but it seems it created some “burps” with my thermostats. So I shifted to just take actions from an email sent from Alarm.com.
Email is an interesting route. But I would think there could be a significant delay with that. Plus, you can’t perform any actions like arming and disarming the system. To me, that is the most useful part of the integration.
I don’t understand how using the Alarmdotcom integration would affect your thermostat?
There is a real delay. My main purpose for getting HA was to turn off the HVAC when someone left open a door. So the delay is not too noticable.
As for the Alarmdotcom integration affecting my thermostats, that’s just a guess. For several months I’ve had re-authentication requests from my Honeywell Lrycs portion of HA. This request for re-authentication would occur approximately every 6+ hours. I put this issue up here on the forum but got no suggestions so I just started commenting lines in my yaml file to see what would cure the problem. After I commented out the Alarmdotcom integration, the Lyryc issue has not returned… It makes no sense. but everything I really need is working now so I’m happy
I managed to get Alarm.com integrated in (I think), but as I’m still new to setting things up, I’m not sure how I can integrate some of the entities into dashboard cards. Is anyone able to show me the ropes?
I recently move to this platform from alarm.com and absolutely need my alarm.com account integrated. I move all my zwave items to ha and other devices. Then with the help of a member here I install qolsysgw in ha. So far is great instenanious responds and everything works great. If you have qolsys iq2 or iq4 go that route you will love it
I’d SURE like to know how/where to get the Alarmdotcom integration. I have searched for it, with no luck. I have HACS installed, but I can’t find any way to add any integrations. There must be something I’m missing. I must be really dumb.
Has anyone successfully created an automation with this integration? I tried to create a daily disarm without successes. Nothing happens on my test runs.
Yes. The entity_id for alarm.com is “alarm_control_panel.panel”. I can disarm and arm with automations using this in the code. you need to add this entity_id after the service call action.
Any chance you were able to get live status from sensors, like door/window/motion? I gave up a long time ago. I think any status I received was 5-10 minutes delayed.
You’ll need the dealer code for your panel though if it was changed from the default 2222. My dealer is a small company and my sales rep is the founder, so when I asked for it he gave it to me.