Recently purchased a Vanderbilt Alarm Panel as I thought it fully integrated with Home Assistant. I have the integration complete however when I try to Arm the panel, it does so without needing a code.
The same integration doesn’t behave this way with other open source systems such as Homey. From my research, the integration between Homey and the Vanderbilt SPC also integrates the user codes.
Can I have assistance to complete this setup with Home Assistant?
Or is there another way to use the Alarm entity to create a manuel Alarm Panel and force a user code entry?
How did you do the integration ? with the external raspberry to run the little software that makes the bridge between HA and SPC ?
I have the Lundix software installed on a Ubuntu virtual machine, Dell Optiplex mini 7070 to be more exact.
from what I understood in documentation of Lunix module (I plan to use it for one of my customer) security part of alarm is not avalaible through that integration so you have a direct access at all functions straight and so you have to implement your own security in HA !
Be aware that insurance company might decline to work if they discover such things after intrusion as HA has never been certfiied for alarm management like that
Yes I bought the vanderbilt alarm before I found that out. It’s already been installed and a bit too late to roll back now.
If there is no security codes direct from the integration, is there any other way I can implement a code, even from HA.
I have my home assistant server pretty locked down, so I’m not worried about intrusions, but I can have people walk in and disable the alarm without a code.
So my question is, is there any other method to implement or force a code input?
E.g, use the alarm entity to create a manual alarm template that could use its own pin code?
Although that hasn’t worked for me so far.
No not yet. I have a friend trying to convert the integration to a modern UI version but he does not own a SPC - so it is not sure if it will be done
Haha, no problem, you can use me as a guinea pig if you want.
Hi @johannesasater, you mentioned you have a friend trying to convert the SPC integration to a modern UI version but does not own a panel right?
I have an SPC 4300 panel, which doesn’t do any of the things I need it to do. If you want I can assist by using my panel as your test system.
Let me know what you think.