YET another take on an alarm system

Agreed - but I still don’t see any entities and I don’t think I can call the service then like this:

  - alias: 'Arlo armed away'
    initial_state: 'on'
    trigger:
      - platform: state
        entity_id: alarm_control_panel.house
        to: armed_away
    action:
      - service: alarm_control_panel.alarm_arm_away
        entity_id: alarm_control_panel.arlo

You do see the alarm_control_panel.house right?

That is correct.

Did you give up on me :smile:?

Hi guys, I tried changing something in the alarm.css file, but it doesn’t appear to be loading the changes after I restart. Pretty nooby with the whole home-assistant setup… How do I get the changes in alarm.css to propagate?

No of course not. I just don’t have any experience with arlo. As discussed in the arlo topic you linked, try to remove it and install it again from ground up.

Else try IFTTT: Arlo - not showing anything at all - not even a Control Panel?

I can’t be of any more help, as i don’t have the hardware. We also should keep this topic free of off topic requests.

References:



Thanks man! Appreciated!

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By updating to 0.85.1, I am getting this error:

Not passing an entity ID to a service to target all entities is deprecated. Use instead: entity_id: “all”

It sounds like a bwalarm thing, since the handling of entities has changed:

Slugify changed, which can impact entity ID creation if the entities had names with either a - or characters outside of A-Z and the integration has no unique IDs. We now better handle the characters and substitute it with an alternative instead of removing that character.

@gazoscalvertos Mind taking a look?

How exactly did you get it?
I updated to 0.85.1, but didn’t see any errors and alarm worked as expected…

i’m on 85.1 and even tried with a dev build and dont get any issues

what is the full error message,
Are you using the latest build of the alarm component

That is changed in 0.85, see the release notes below.

Hi al, i am also interesed in a new alarm panel , i am now using the MQTT platform and NOT the manual_mqtt platform, because all my logic is my external alam system, i am just sending/receiving mqtt for status and arm/disarm commands, therefore i cant use the manual_mqtt platform
but the mqtt platform now, is verry basic and limited,… so can i use this project instead?

now the onlt thing i can setup is like this below, thats all

alarm_control_panel:
#  - platform: manual_mqtt
  - platform: mqtt
    name: Risco Alarm
    state_topic: "riscopanel/armstatus"
    command_topic: "riscopanel/armstatus/SET"
    payload_disarm: "disarmed" 
    payload_arm_home: "partially"
    payload_arm_away: "armed"

I see the exact same error. It triggers when I try to arm my alarm. Unfortunately something else also happened after the update. I no longer see the keypad which I also stated in another thread.

My alarm panel shows the temp info in Celsius, but all my other displays are in Fahrenheit. How do I fix this? I have units set both in configuration.yaml, and under the darksky sensor.

Thank you!

@AhmadK I am getting it when arming or disarming the alarm.

@aidbish This is the full error

@gerard33 I know… I was on 0.84.6 when it was working fine last time.

@Yoinkz Yes, me too. I have a panel on my lovelace which I am using to arm or disarm the alarm, and I also cant see my keypad. However if I use the default custom panel of this alarm, it works fine, but I still get the same error.

I have this alarm panel and was working fine until 0.84.6 version.
After updating to 0.85.1 it stopped working.
Yesterday I formatted my raspberry and started all over again with new installation of raspbian and HA in virtual environment but still no go…

Two days now, I am trying to figure out what is going on, and I hadnt enabled persistence mode. I just enabled it, and I am now getting this error in addition to the previous one.

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I have to note that the alarm is working fine. Arming, disarming, triggering and the automations. I am just getting this error and now my panel in lovelace, is useless. I cant disarm the using the default panel unless I open the custom one.

Well, all I can say is I updated from 0.83.2 to 0.85.1 and saw some breaking bugs (for example, one cannot have __ in input_boolean, input_datetime, input_number or sensor names) and and plenty of sql-related exceptions in the log. Almost immediately roles it back and waiting patiently for a proper update :wink:

Did you use the ‘WIPE AND RESTORE’ or the ‘RESTORE SELECTED’?
First time I’m doing this :slight_smile:

there were breaking changes in .85 regarding entity id’s. have you checked that out in the release notes

post the contents of your alarm config/automations for alarm. this maybe able to help whats going on

I’m getting the same error about entity_id: “all” however I can’t see anywhere in alarm.yaml or automations.yaml that has a missing entity_id so I’m wondering if it’s in the code code of this alarm system? (ie: bwalarm.py)

I’m having the same issue. It was working yesterday, then I updated today and no bueno. You’d think that a “warning” wouldn’t limit functionality, but so much for that concept. Hoping for a resolution soon!