YET another take on an alarm system

AhmadK · March 17, 2018, 7:53pm

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nebbiadigiorno · March 18, 2018, 10:51pm

hi all, is it possible to integrate a panel with mqtt? a member of the community create a really beautiful panel for the alarm. i post the link to the app.

Paul_Flavel · March 18, 2018, 11:03pm

You can kindof do this already.
Have a browser run in kiosk mode with it automatically directing to the alarm panel. The panel has an option to hide left nav bar.
Works well on my android.

nebbiadigiorno · March 18, 2018, 11:04pm

ok i know, but this panel is really user friendly and with this you have not access directly to ha.

Paul_Flavel · March 18, 2018, 11:09pm

Well since you can set the arm/disarm etc mqtt topics in this alarm config. I can’t see why you couldn’t use the above panel. Just make sure the mqtt topics match and you should be fine.

nebbiadigiorno · March 18, 2018, 11:10pm

ok sorry for the noob question, but i have to set the mqtt in the configuration.yaml or in the alarm.yaml?

Paul_Flavel · March 18, 2018, 11:11pm

Sorry Alarm.yaml
You will notice these settings are initially commented out.

nebbiadigiorno · March 18, 2018, 11:13pm

thanks for the support

Paul_Flavel · March 18, 2018, 11:16pm

No worries. Let us know if this works, as this may interest others as well.

j.assuncao · March 18, 2018, 11:25pm

You can configure your HA URL inside MQTT Alarm Panel. After that you can swipe left and get access to it.

nebbiadigiorno · March 18, 2018, 11:26pm

if i activate the mqtt in the alarm panel the alarm panel crash

Paul_Flavel · March 18, 2018, 11:27pm

Which panel? This one or the one you posted?

nebbiadigiorno · March 18, 2018, 11:29pm

all, nothing works.

Paul_Flavel · March 18, 2018, 11:30pm

Weird. I have this panel running with the mqtt alarm states with no issue.

nebbiadigiorno · March 18, 2018, 11:31pm

could you post me the part of your configuration for the mqtt?

Paul_Flavel · March 18, 2018, 11:32pm

At work atm. I don’t have access.
But all i did was remove the # and use the defaults.

nebbiadigiorno · March 18, 2018, 11:33pm

you remove all the #?

##[MQTT RELATED]
#mqtt: True #[OPTIONAL] - False by default. Settings this to True will enable MQTT Mode. Uncomment options below to use See the README for guidance.
#override_code: True #[OPTIONAL] False by default. if true allows MQTT commands to disarm the alarm without a valid code.
#state_topic: ‘home/alarm’ #[OPTIONAL] The MQTT topic HA will publish state updates to.
#command_topic: ‘home/alarm/set’ #[OPTIONAL] The MQTT topic HA will subscribe to, to receive commands from a remote device to change the alarm state.
#qos: 0 #[OPTIONAL] The maximum QoS level for subscribing and publishing to MQTT messages. Default is 0.
#payload_disarm: “DISARM” #[OPTIONAL] The payload to disarm this Alarm Panel. Default is “DISARM”.
#payload_arm_home: “ARM_HOME” #[OPTIONAL] The payload to set armed-home mode on this Alarm Panel. Default is “ARM_HOME”.
#payload_arm_away: “ARM_AWAY” #[OPTIONAL] The payload to set armed-away mode on this Alarm Panel. Default is “ARM_AWAY”.
#payload_arm_night: “ARM_NIGHT” #[OPTIONAL] The payload to set armed-night mode on this Alarm Panel. Default is “ARM_NIGHT”.

j.assuncao · March 18, 2018, 11:33pm

Which version of HA? Hassio?

nebbiadigiorno · March 18, 2018, 11:36pm

hassio 0.65.3

Paul_Flavel · March 18, 2018, 11:41pm

#state_topic: ‘home/alarm’ #[OPTIONAL] The MQTT topic HA will publish state updates to.

#command_topic: ‘home/alarm/set’ #[OPTIONAL] The MQTT topic HA will subscribe to, to receive commands from a remote device to change the alarm state.

These are the 2 i am talking about. The first one writes the state to mqtt. The second one reads the states from mqtt.

Remove the leading # before each one. The others settings are as per description. As another pointer. Always run the check config test whenever you make a change.