UK Alarms for HA - Recomentations?

[quentinsf (Quentin Stafford-Fraser)]

In case anyone’s interested in a very simple variant on this scheme, we have a standard Texecom alarm, and I didn’t want to interfere with it in any way, but I did want to know when it was armed, cleared or deteced an intruder.

Monitoring home alarm outputs

Here’s a fairly simple project: we have a standard home alarm system, and I wanted Home Assistant to know when it was armed. I discovered that one of the several programmable outputs inside its control box is configured by default to show when the system is armed. Another shows whether an intruder is detected, and I thought it would be fun to add that as well. These are the kinds of outputs designed to flash lights, ring bells or lock doors, not really to be connected to home automation systems…