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With about 1500 posts in this topic Im sorry if this is asked before. Firstly very good job with this panel, but is it any way to make the control panel more reactive? I tried to use it on a Fire tab 10, and the “keypad” is very slow, at the point if it go from 1-9 with “regular speed” it maybe catches 4-5 of the numbers and some of them is just selected with the grey overlay.

Well, on my Acer Iconia 7 it lags sometimes, but not always. Can’t say it’s super fast, but most of the time it does the job well.
And apparently in the future it might change is the author is slamming to migrate from Polymer to something else, no idea it will impact the things

Just updated to ,88 and get the below error
Thu Feb 21 2019 15:39:50 GMT+1300 (NZDT)

Not passing an entity ID to a service to target all entities is deprecated. Update your call to alarm_control_panel.alarm_disarm to be instead: entity_id: all

Alignment of text and icon in by alarm panel not lining up i.e. away text not in centre of circle it is off to one side

Also on Lovelace ui there is no keypad

Any help would be appreciated

There are a bunch of fixes further up the thread you can make yourself or wait until Gaz releases the next version.

See: 2 bugfixes by akasma74 · Pull Request #69 · gazoscalvertos/Hass-Custom-Alarm · GitHub

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I think that’s all of them.

After upgrading to 0.88.0 there are several problems… the MDI update was covered in the post above under the panel-custom change. The custom component directory and python file will need their names swapped to clean up some errors, and I changed up a TON of CSS code to make things more responsive before upgrading but after, it looks like this:

After looking at the breaking changes it seems that they have discontinued use of paper-button and are using mwc-button now. After changing everything over to the new supported version of the button, it places a button within the frame of the existing button and nothing works properly. I reverted and am looking for a fix yet, but this and the image posted a few above is caused by dropping support for paper-button.

Anyone have ideas for getting the replacement working for now, ir ideas for importing paper-button.js back into this component until the new non-polymer UI is released?

Thanks
Have latest files as of the 10th, but some the above still needed to be done thanks
But when you use Lovelace Alarm Panel there is still n Keypad52%20PM

Read @BenchPressesBooks post directly above yours.

I’ve just upgraded Hass.io and the only difference I can see is that text is not centered within buttons, but they are still round. Cleared cache before checking.

and yes, it says “WARNING (MainThread) [homeassistant.loader] Integrations need to be in their own folder. Change alarm_control_panel/bwalarm.py to bwalarm/alarm_control_panel.py. This will stop working soon.”

Hi there,

I was testing this panel but I cannot save any change in the configuration, everytime I got an error related to Websocket API

Here an example while trying to change the “Alarm Panel Title:”

2019-02-21 10:30:24 ERROR (MainThread) [homeassistant.components.websocket_api.http.connection.1707841520] Error handling message: {'type': 'call_service', 'domain': 'alarm_control_panel', 'service': 'ALARM_YAML_SAVE', 'service_data': {'configuration': 'panel', 'value': {'camera_update_interval': '', 'cameras': [], 'enable_camera_panel': 'False', 'enable_clock': 'True', 'enable_clock_12hr': 'True', 'enable_custom_panel': 'False', 'enable_floorplan_panel': 'False', 'enable_sensors_panel': 'True', 'enable_serif_font': 'True', 'enable_weather': 'True', 'hide_passcode': 'True', 'panel_title': 'Surname Residence2', 'shadow_effect': 'True', 'enable_fahrenheit': 'False'}}, 'id': 75}
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/ha/homeassistant/lib/python3.6/site-packages/homeassistant/components/websocket_api/decorators.py", line 17, in _handle_async_response
    await func(hass, connection, msg)
  File "/home/ha/homeassistant/lib/python3.6/site-packages/homeassistant/components/websocket_api/commands.py", line 147, in handle_call_service
    connection.context(msg))
  File "/home/ha/homeassistant/lib/python3.6/site-packages/homeassistant/core.py", line 1133, in async_call
    self._execute_service(handler, service_call))
  File "/home/ha/homeassistant/lib/python3.6/site-packages/homeassistant/core.py", line 1153, in _execute_service
    handler.func(service_call)
  File "/home/ha/.homeassistant/custom_components/alarm_control_panel/bwalarm.py", line 324, in alarm_yaml_save
    alarm.settings_save(service.data.get(CONF_CONFIGURATION), service.data.get(CONF_VALUE))
  File "/home/ha/.homeassistant/custom_components/alarm_control_panel/bwalarm.py", line 541, in settings_save
    self._yaml_content[configuration] = value
TypeError: 'NoneType' object does not support item assignment

I am using HA 0.88 but I was having the same problem yesterday with 0.87.1

Any feedback welcome :slight_smile:

Thanks
Andrea

I cannot reproduce it on 0.88.0, and it was working fine on 0.87.0

Thanks but have done all the changes with main ones around fixing keypad but still no go
@property
def code_format(self):
“”“One or more characters.”""
if self._code is None:
return None
if isinstance(self._code, str) and re.search(’^\d+$’, self._code):
return alarm.FORMAT_NUMBER
return alarm.FORMAT_TEXT

warning, I am not a programmer, developer, or even like to write code

can someone explain something to me. I have hass.io working with the Konnected boards and running this security system. Am I supposed to write an automations.yaml file to actually sound the alarm when this is “triggered” I’ve been trying to write one, but then when I look in the developer tools, state section it appears that most of what I am doing is already there…

sorry for such an elementary question, but I must be missing something here.

here is what I have written so far. is this necessary or am I reinventing the wheel.

I still can’t get it to set off the siren when I open the door and when it does I can’t get it to disarm.

Mate, the idea is you need to react to the state of alarm panel as it itself takes care of the sensors configured via alarm.yaml/webinterface.
Therefore for your siren you can use something like:

- id: alarm__triggered
  alias: '[Alarm] Triggered'
  hide_entity: true
  initial_state: true
  trigger:
    platform: state
    entity_id: alarm_control_panel.house
    to: 'triggered'
  action:
  - service: switch.turn_on
    entity_id: switch.siren

That’s basically it, apart from the fact that you need to switch off your siren somehow when the alarm is disarmed OR goes back to armed away/home state.

Regarding alarm beep when door opened or closed - you need to monitor appropriate sensors yourself and react to their state. Your trigger section should contain - platform sections, not - entity_id, read the docs

Hi.
I have this problem in 88.1.

Error while setting up platform bwalarm
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/homeassistant/helpers/entity_platform.py”, line 128, in _async_setup_platform
SLOW_SETUP_MAX_WAIT, loop=hass.loop)
File “/usr/local/lib/python3.7/asyncio/tasks.py”, line 416, in wait_for
return fut.result()
File “/usr/local/lib/python3.7/asyncio/coroutines.py”, line 120, in coro
res = func(*args, **kw)
File “/config/custom_components/alarm_control_panel/bwalarm.py”, line 316, in async_setup_platform
alarm = BWAlarm(hass, config, mqtt)
File “/config/custom_components/alarm_control_panel/bwalarm.py”, line 341, in init
self.init_variables()
File “/config/custom_components/alarm_control_panel/bwalarm.py”, line 441, in init_variables
self.immediate = self._states[self._state][“immediate”]
KeyError: ‘disarmed’

Can you help me please?
Thanks

Sure

I’m going to try that solution.
Thanks

Would this be an idea? Apparently it won’t work for the HTML files etc but would work for the “custom component” element of it. I guess if it won’t update as a whole it might be counterproductive and confusing.

The alarm in principle works well. Although with version 88.1 the panel numbers are smaller and do not look good. Any ideas?