I combined this with Alarmo. One reason for that is that it supports multiple alarm codes, I have one for me, one for guests I can easily toggle on and off and one for a secret alarm so say someone is telling me turn off the alarm as they're robbing me, I can use that code instead. On the surface it will turn off the alarm but then it can secretly also say send off a notification
Hi, thanks for this very nice tutorial👍 Using RFID and splitting the configuration in 2 parts would make it perfect. 2 parts means, one for an area with trigger delay only for the main entrance door(s) an another part without trigger delay for all other sensors (Window & Door sensors, glass break sensors, motion detectors, .... outside the main entrance area). Or, if the system will be armed by the phone app outside the house, it could also work without any trigger delay 😉
Followed the instructions and works really well. The only thing I did diferent is to use dinamic scenes to restore the states after the alarm is disarm.
I do like the idea of all the lights flashing red so there is an audible and visual indication of which house is being robbed . Am external siren is needed aswell as all the internal speakers
Very good video. I switched some time ago to the Alarmo integration from Niels Faber. It includes several of the features you created out of the box. E.g., notifications with the list of triggered sensors.
Yes, I know that HACS integration, but I do not use it myself. The Alarmo integration makes it a bit easier to configure the alarm panel, but the notifications do not make much sense for me because I use a motion sensor group. I am not aware that the Alarmo integration can send a push message to your phone. does it support flashing lights and triggering am mp3 through your speakers?
@@SmartHomeJunkie You can use notify service to send notifications in the in-build notifications of Alarmo. This works for me to get alerts in the Home Assistant app. It should also work for all other notifications supported in HA like Signal. You can trigger as action a script inside HA. In the script you can run flashing lights or play mp3 sounds. In addition Alarmo creates a alarm control panel which works like the one you used in the video. I use e.g., Node-Red to trigger more complex automations based on the status of the alarm control panel of Alarmo.
@@SmartHomeJunkie Alarmo can do a lot, and for what it can't do you can build automations that leverage alarmo. I for example created automations to choose what state alarmo should be in (basedon whether our phones are home, whether we are sleeping,...). Alarmo is really great.
Problem is if you're not familiar with how to make scripts, doing these things in Alarmo is actually harder. There's no UI to do advanced things. I can't figure out how to flash lights and turn on my siren with it, so I'm going to follow this video and do it all manually. I really like the idea of Alarmo, I just don't want to spend 100 hours trying to figure out how to hook automatons into it. Why can't it just use existing automations?
Nice video 👍 can you help me about how to ringing ringtone in my phone when alarm active, and some time get notification on phone only when my phone display is on or when unlock my phone
This is great. I learned a lot about states, triggers and automations from your video. One major problem with this is that if you arm it when one of the sensors is open (ie: a window) it will never trigger if/when one of the other sensors opens (I have 6 sensors).
True, but you can add an automation tag warns you if a door or window is still open. Or change the current automation that tests each door individually.
@@SmartHomeJunkie I tried changing the trigger so it is triggered by the 6 sensors instead of the Alarm sensor group. This triggers immediately after arming if one of the windows is open. I need to learn how to use variables (?) so that I can make it tell you which zone is open when it triggers. Do you have a video about using variables in HA?
Ich finde es super, das Deine Videos mit Untertitel sind, da mein Englisch leider nicht mehr so gut ist. Aber so ist das perfekt und Du hast mir schon tolle Anregungen geliefert. Mein Abo ist Dir sicher. Gruß Andy
Hello, I have a question for you: Can we put a password on any Sonoff brand relay? For example, I open my door with a relay, but sometimes my children accidentally touch the button and the door opens. I want to ensure that it opens only by setting a password, thank you.
Nice video, one little thing I'd like to address is the fact that the flashing lights and siren automations will also trigger on disarming the alarm from an armed state rather than only from a triggered state resulting in lights being on and volume be adjusted to 4 (alarm-disarmed triggers). This can be countered by adding "triggered" in "from state".
Just tested this. The flashing lights and siren are not triggered. It will however set the alarm lights to the disarmed state color when you disarm the alarm if it is not triggered. Thank you for this addition, Adding triggered to the from state in the alarm-is-disarmed triggers will indeed fix this!
@@daleholden In the alarm-is-disarmed triggers you add the state "from": triggered "to": disarmed. That way the automation will only fire when going from the alarm being in state "triggered" to state "disarmed".
See this video for the new menu: The NEW Settings Menu in Home Assistant versus the Old Configuration Menu + FREE GIVE-AWAY ruclips.net/video/PncDL3bV1SA/видео.html The script is still working. You just need to go to the new menu structure.
Thank you for the turorial, its really been useful. I prefer it to Alarmo as my family uses Apple Home and I can easily expose the alarm controls without the need for a pin code so all their phones in Apple home. However, I just can't get the audio to work with the changes made to automations. Specifically the Mode part, changing single to Restart. I can't figure out where that function has gone in HA 2023.8 I really appreciate their UI updates but it's a full time job to keep up with their changes. Can anyone assist please?
congratulations and thanks ... I'm trying to put this tutorial into practice ..... is it possible to integrate a keypad to be placed at the entrance of the house and a system to activate and deactivate with the phone's nfc or a nfc tag? thank you
@@SmartHomeJunkie thanks I did some tests but I have some problems .... I tried both with the motion sensor and with the contact of the security door, but I have the same problem .... when I move or open the door contact does not nothing happens (even on the screen) pending does not appear ..... when I disarm with the code the lights come on (I think this is correct). help..why don't the flashing lights come on? thanks and congratulations.
Great video, I have not been able to get it to play Siren to Sonos Play1. It doesn't error, but no sound as it isn't turning on play1. If I go to HA, Media select Play1 and select alarm.mp3 it plays just fine. What else is needed to have it trigger Play1 from the automation. (Setting and triggering the alarm panel is also working) Thanks... Update: It's now working.... I was only using 1 play1 so I was calling the play1 entity and not a group. I created SonosSpeaker Group with just the Play1 in it. It is now working. Thank you again for this great video....
Thanks , this just what I am looking for. I have ADT x64 alarm system that have a number of zones connected to the alarm. I wish I could get the alarm system interegrated into HA. Really need this in South africa. Would help alot . Thanks for your great videos
@@SmartHomeJunkie thanks for the quick answer. Now the alarm panel is in Full Screen Mode but the icons and the text have the same size as before the change. Any Idea?
Great Job on the tutorial and thank you! How do i change the mode to Restart.... In my version of Home Assistant there is no option for changing the Automation mode... so my alarm just keeps ringing.
Thank you. Very high -quality effective. You can add another piece or a short video, how to cancel or run the alarm one of the people go out of the house or coming to the house?
Thank you. See my geofencing or switch baseed on presence videos how to do this: ruclips.net/video/J-b8BAefNGQ/видео.html ruclips.net/video/pjAyRN5UiBg/видео.html
Great Video! Many Thanks! But is there any way to modify the alarm panel card? The buttons are so small (too small for me) and maybe the style could be better. I already tried different methods, but noting really worked.
Thank you very much for this great video, it's really helpful! Would it be possible to trigger the alarm if you enter the wrong code a specific number of times ?
Hi, very interesting and well explained subject. A question. How the code in config.yaml would look Like, if i would use the Presence of somebody of the Family at home instead of input a code? The Idea behind is: I would create a group consisting of all Family members with assigned mobiles. If the person is connected to the Home Wfi, a group woud set up to present and Alarm would be automatical disabled. Would be great. Thx
Love the video, copied everything for my setup. I am trying to setup armed home with only contact sensors. But somewhere down the line I am failing. In the video you set Alarm montion sensors to "on" for action to trigger the automation. Is the same trigger for contact sensors. Or is it something else?
It should be the same, but you can check in Developer Tools -> State what the actual state of your contact sensors is. It might be that the states are "open" and "closed".
Your automations are SO MUCH more sophisticated than my trivial turn on, off, yes, no stuff :) I really have to get more into details. It's so much more straight forward! Thank you! BTW: What I'd really like to see is if you can SAVE THE STATE of the lamp before alarm goes off, and bring it back to this state once alarm is disarmed. Now I'm just turning it off, but it would be nice if it was as it was before. Any ideas? Same goes for the speaker volume.
Just checked you ‚just‘ need to call service create scene and make a snapshot of the light. When the automation is done you call the scene again and bam. You’re done.
Thanks again for your clear explanation. I would like to know a little more about the possibility of debugging using 'Tracering' in HA . Maybe an idea for your next video. thanks
Hello, your videos are really great. Just me as a beginner love you. I'm in the process of setting everything up. I absolutely love the dashboard from the video, visible at minute 2:12. Is it possible that you make a video about it. Would have exactly the same look. I would be happy if I got an answer. Keep it up
Hi Ed, great video and I've almost managed to set everything up now. But could you please explain to me how I have to configure this if all my speakers are Echo Dots? Because I can't enter a content type or a content ID.
Nice work. I think you forgot just one thing.... When the state of the alarm changes to triggered, lights will blink and siren will sound, but if nothing happens and the state goes back from triggered to alarm away or alarm home .... It will still continue to flash and make noise :)
Hello! first of all very good video, but I wanted to ask you. How do you do it so that the alarm continues with its last state when homeassistant is restarted?
Great vid. How do you manage to supply the smart bulbs with power in the first place? There must be some kind of device like a shelly I guess. Otherwise the bulbs must be on all the time.
Hi brilliant video many thanks however I get up to 22:16 where you input the content ID which I do but my alexa says "to send tts please set announce equals true music cannot be played this way" Any advice please?
Brilliant clips of how to setup :-) I am hard of hearing myself so what sort of speakers do you use? want it use for door bell, alarm, Welcome home message etc..... can you give me link of speaker device weather wall mount or ceiling mount speaker.
@@SmartHomeJunkie many thanks for quick reply! Do these linked with cloud? (HA send message to Nest mini without cloud involved) Are they louder enough if turn up high? trying to think mount on wall without eyesore by showing power cable.
@@davidforbes9299 Yes, I use the cloud ( www.home-assistant.io/integrations/google_assistant/ ). The volume is pretty loud, but I guess that's personal.
@@SmartHomeJunkie Morning, I just received Nest Mini this morning, yeah! going to setup through app linked up with Google home to setup wifi link, then I clicked your linked /integrations/google_assistant/ ... it shown "This page does not exist" - so what do I need to do to get Home Assistant to work with Nest? Steps by steps please, as I am ongoing learning
@@SmartHomeJunkie"If it's still there after that, refresh the cache of your browser." That worked! Thanks again, after several restart and unsuccessful attempt, it was that easy!
Hi thanks for the tutotial. I have one question. How do you handle battery sensors? Because if sensor is on(open) and battery kicks out, the status stay on on and sensors group stay on, so when you arm the alarm, sensor group will never turn off anymore to react on an other sensor in the group that jump to on
Great video right there. Thanks a lot. Quick question however, how does the phone notifications work when you are away and your HA setup works in local network only ? Thanks in advance!
@@SmartHomeJunkie thanks for the amazingly fast answer man. that would make sense not having it working. I think various solutions can apply to cover this issue like: - setting up email notifications instead - subscribing to nabu casa - setting up duckdns + letsencrypt - set up VPN for your local network and use it while you're out of home on your mobile devices Maybe I missed some but, here are the ideas I got on top of my head. Hope this helps everyone 😉
Hello your tutorial is awesome ! II made such an alarm at my home. and of course I have a question. i have a device. a siren connected to a smart socket it is not a speaker device. How to turn it on on media speaker alarm group?
Thx. I do not have such a device myself, so I do not know. But I guess that if you choose the device in actions, it might have an action that triggers it. 🤷🏼
Hi Ed, great video, got the basics working (off course with your video as a guideline ;-) ), when entering the automation for flashing the lights at about 16:50 in yout video, you're entering an 'option'. I can't find that in my installation, I'm using version Home Assistant 2023.1.7, can you tell me where or how I can enter the option to set the lights in a 'normal' state after flashing red? Thanx in advance!
Is it possible to expand the automation and/or helper that the alarm only will be triggered when motion is detected by two or more different motion sensors? I'm using the Aqara P1 sensors and they give false positives on a regular basis. What I want is when two sensors detect motion within 5 minutes or so, then the alarm should be triggered. Is that possible?
Hi, thank you so much for this wonderful video. Very nice tutorial. I have a question in regard to the best way to setup the sensors needed for Away vs Home. Obviously for Away, I will include all sensors (contact, motion etc.) BUT for Home, I don't want to inlude the motion sensors since we will be moving in the house. Is it better to setup 2 groups of sensors: 1 group for Away and 1 group for Home? Or jsut have 1 group and for the Away remove the motion from the list? Thank you
Great Video, thanks! The thing I don't get is what is the purpose of the code? If someone got access to your HA dashboard they can do whatever they want, including just switching off the automations, so nothing will alert you even of the alarm triggers. Minor comment, it is better to use a blinking effect instead of switching the lights back and forth. Some of the smart bulbs are saving their state to their flash memory and that memory has a very limited resource.
Hi Ivan, It depends. How would someone r get access to the HA dashboard without having the companion app installed? And even if you have the dashboard on a tablet, you could let the tablet log in with a non administrator account and then someone could never change things. The blink effect is too short for this. I tried it, but it did not work the way I wanted it to work.
Great tutorial again!! Looking at your "My Devices" page couple of questions. do you have experiance with the Silvercrest gateway? or is it better to use the Conbee stick? have you placed this stick directly into the RPI?
Sure you can do that, but I thought that it would make the tutorial a bit more complex to understand. It was just for the tutorial purpose that I put them in two automations.
Thanks for the tutorial! I get this error from alexa "to use TTS, set announce equal to true, music can't be played this way" . . so I add "announce: true" to the yaml of the "perform action 'media player: play media' but when I do that I don't get the error, yet the audio (alarm) does not play, and I get no errors . . any idea where I'm gone wrong?
@@SmartHomeJunkie Thanks for the reply Ed.......I found out how to add the siren to Alarmo but on your video, its just if I was able to add the siren to HA and thats where the issue is......I will ask the HA community if anybody has been able to add the particular siren to HA
Very interesting video and explained very well. It would be nice if you could receive a more detailed notification on your phone, for example indicating which sensor triggered the alarm. I'll wait for the next video ;-)
@@garymorris9151 If you test each devalue individually instead of in a group, you can store the triggered sensor in a (text) helper and show the value of that helper in the notification. There are more ways, for instance, create a custom template that returns all the open sensors and send that value in your notification.
I noticed the trigger to stop the alarm is when alarm is disarmed, which is great, but how does the action to stop the alarm sounding after 120 seconds work ? Does the alarm move from triggered to disarmed back to armed to deal with this? Thanks
@@SmartHomeJunkie Okay. So does that make the alarm sound and lights to stop without needing additional automations? I am in an area that requires alarms to automatically stop sounding after a set period of time after a trigger. Thanks :)
@@SmartHomeJunkie thanks. Oh and is there a way to only have this trigger time for the front door? And have all other sensors trigger the alarm without a time? I mean if my balcony is opened during Armed Away its probably a thief and I dont want to give him 120 sec free time :)
@@SmartHomeJunkie Ah okok! This seems to be standard in the "professional" alarms on the market. Since because generally you only enter the house through the main door. And really all this feature need is a "Alarm control panel: trigger without time" lets hope they add it in the future! :)
@@Gladers. Well, you can trigger without time, but then it would also trigger if you enter the house yourself and you do not have time to disable the alarm before it triggers.
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Dank voor je uitgebreide en heldere uitleg! Ik heb je stappen gevolgd en alles werkt. Het alarmpaneel werkt zoals het moet. De lampen beginnen te flikkeren wanneer het alarm is getriggerd, maar de sirene blijft stil. En dat begrijp ik niet. Ik heb de automatisering meerdere keren gecheckt en alles staat goed. Ook de url naar de mp3 file werkt. Heb ik getest in de browser. Maar toch werkt de automatisering niet. Enig idee waar dit aan zou kunnen liggen? Bij voorbaat dank voor je hulp!
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Het is toch gelukt! Was de content type vergeten in te vullen. Alles werkt nu naar behoren!
Great Tutorial!! Everything worked out except for the siren sound. When it should start, i'm getting this message from Alexa instead of the siren sound: "sorry text to speech can only be called with the notify.alexa_media service..." Am I doing something wrong there?
I was informed that Alexa Media player notify does not play original MP3’s. They have to be converted. I can give you a link in how to do this if it’s ok with Ed. ruclips.net/video/ZJlH6k9PY4I/видео.html
No, it doesn't, but you can fix that easily with a boolean helper and a check on that helper when HA restarts. If the alarm was armed before restarting you can arm the alarm automatically again based on the state of that helper.
hello and thank you .... very nice and useful 2 questions ... can I use an mp3 file (siren) as a notification ??? how you do it?? can i hear a beep when you arm after 30 seconds? thank you
@@SmartHomeJunkie thank you. i tried but i can't hear the siren ... i put the mp3 file in www and i wrote ..... 192.168.1.222:8123/local/www/alarm1.mp3 and 192.168.1.222:8123/www/alarm1.mp3 don't work
As far as I know, Alarmo is mainly frontend. Here I explain how you can get total control of the behavior of your alarm system. But what's more important is that you actually learn how to create anything you can think of in Home Assistant.
Hi, Nice video. I downloaded the code because I was unable to stop the alarm lights from flashing. Unfortunately, it didn't work even if I executed the code exactly as shown in your automation text. It looks like the "until" condition doesn't work. It keeps flashing the alarmlights even though the status is disarmed. The alarmlights will not stop flashing until the 120 seconds have passed. What could be the cause of this? I hope you can help.
i have problem pointing home assistant to the mp3 file, tried your guide but wont play sound, i have homeassistan os installed on a NUC, mabe its diffrent there
Great video. Just a small question, if we use scenes for lights, is it not good idea? Maybe we can create two scene for alarm lights, so we can use less option in the automation. For example Scene 1 : Flash red color, Scene 2: standart color. Another question is, looks like you are using nest mini for speakers. Can we add this devices in the HA without nabu casa? Or we need to use nabu casa for google nest mini integration?
Yes sure. Just add another automation that triggers on state pending and play a sound as the action just like playing a sound when the state is triggered.
@@SmartHomeJunkie yes, i did it exactly as you say. There’s only on thing that is annoying. If you disarm in the arming time sound continue to play forever…
@@Lordsheva80 I think you can fix that to create an automation that triggers a media.stop service when the state goes to disarmed and the previous state was pending.
@@SmartHomeJunkie even more simple. I change the until condition (was until is away) to while is in pending condition. I’ve also create a new one for the “pre trigger” state. Now it works like a charm.
Hallo, ich habe den Code für die Automation runter geladen und bei mir eingefügt. Allerdings nutze ich Echo zur Ausgabe. Habe auch amzn_sfx_sirens_01 als Content id genommen, aber es ertönt keine Sirene. Nur die Änderung der Lautstärke erfolgt. Nehme ich für die Audioausgabe das Tablet geht alles. Kannst du mir einen Tipp geben warum nix aus dem Echo kommt?
Quando coloco o audio para testar recebo uma mensagem a alexa que diz o seguinte "to send tts please set announce=true. music can't be played this way" alguem tem ideia do que pode ser?
Awesome video. I’m struggling a bit getting the audio file to play on the Sonos speaker. I’ve got the alarm mp3 file stored on the web server. If I use the mp3 url in a browser it plays fine. If I use it as the content ID then the action completes fine but the file doesn’t play through the speaker. If I use a web based url for a playlist this does work. Any ideas why it may not work with the local mp3? Been scratching my head all day LOL
@@SmartHomeJunkie - Thanks. I've already tested that and the other queue options. I've copied another MP3 file to the web server. Again, I can play the mp3 file with the web browser and URL, but the URL in a script or automation then it doesn't play. I'm not sure where to look to see if it's been requested by the sonos speaker from the web server logs.
@@markytowers I just tested it myself and the enqueue option is not the solution indeed. What happens if you just test that one action in the automation by clicking on the three dots in that specific action and then Run Action?
That's an interesting question. I think you can do this with actionable notifications. See my video about actionable notifications how to set that up. I would use a url that points to the dashboard with the control panel on it.
Do you have experience with using the Shelly Motion 2 and Shelly Door 2 as binary sensors for the alarm trigger? When test running the script I get the correct response but when activating the sensor the alarm does not trigger.
@@SmartHomeJunkie found out what the issue was: you can not group the Shelly Motion 2 sensors as a binary sensor group. If you do this they will not give an on signal when motion is detected. The correct way is to separate trigger for each Shelly motion sensor and add them as a device and not as a binary sensor.
Ah yes, I didn't think about that use case indeed. In that case, the sensor group is already on, so it won't trigger. My first answer would be to only add those sensors to the group that you really want to be closed when you leave the house. You can also create an automation that checks all those sensors when you leave to house and get a message on your phone when one of the doors is still open.
Did something change in Home assistant after the last update? Both groups give not available in automations? Automations are triggered when they change from on to off or vis versa, but thats not working anymore.
@@SmartHomeJunkie Oke, I need to investigate this..... If I look in developer tools - states its oke, but if I try to use it in an automation with "somebody home" its state is unavailable.
@@SmartHomeJunkie I found my keypad has its own attributes and can be exposed to dashboard. Some other keypads need to be automated with alarmo to join both ias zones.
Hello Ed, As an exception, I would like to contact you by email because I'm having problems setting up the alarm panel, which I can't solve with the best will in the world. I know this isn't the normal way, but I'm really stuck. Greetings Andy
Ik heb je tutorial helemaal gevolgd maar kom er niet helemaal uit. Mijn lampen gaan niet knipperen. Deze blijven constant branden. Mogelijk is dit een manco van Hue en zal ik eens met de tijden van knipperen gaan spelen. Verder krijg ik het geluidsfragment niet afgespeeld. Ik heb je video van SAMBA integratie ook gevolgd maar daar leg je niet in uit wat je bedoeld met de WWW map. Ik krijg met deze video wel prima mijn HA vanuit Windows gevonden en kan scrollen door de aanwezige mappen. Heb je dat in een andere video soms nog verder uitgelegd? Dan moet ik er zeker uitkomen. Echt respect voor je video's je legt het top en rustig uit. Alvast bedankt!!
Nou, da's best veel. Ik geloof dat ik de www folder wel uitleg in deze video. Je moet in de action verwijzen naar /local/alarm1.mp3 en de file in je config/www folder zetten. En als je lampen niet gaan knipperen lijkt het erop dat je toch nog een foutje hebt zitten in de automation om je lichten te laten knipperen. Ik heb hier ook hue en die werken goed. Wel met Zigbee2MQTT draaien, dus niet met de hue bridge.
sorry moet zijn 192 ipv 195 Hoe kan ik verder naderhand verlichting of sensoren toevoegen aan een bestaande groep? sorry als ik je zo bestook maar ik vind dit allemaal machtig interessant. Mijn SSD met kabel zijn inmiddels ook onderweg dus daar ga ik je video ook voor raadplegen ;-)
Everything's great, except the siren mp3. Alexa says: "Sorry, text to speech can only be called with the notify dot alexa underscore media service. Please see the Alexa underscore media Wiki for details." What did we do wrong. I mean, what did *I* do wrong? Yours works, obviously. 🙂
I combined this with Alarmo. One reason for that is that it supports multiple alarm codes, I have one for me, one for guests I can easily toggle on and off and one for a secret alarm so say someone is telling me turn off the alarm as they're robbing me, I can use that code instead. On the surface it will turn off the alarm but then it can secretly also say send off a notification
Hi, thanks for this very nice tutorial👍 Using RFID and splitting the configuration in 2 parts would make it perfect. 2 parts means, one for an area with trigger delay only for the main entrance door(s) an another part without trigger delay for all other sensors (Window & Door sensors, glass break sensors, motion detectors, .... outside the main entrance area).
Or, if the system will be armed by the phone app outside the house, it could also work without any trigger delay 😉
Followed the instructions and works really well. The only thing I did diferent is to use dinamic scenes to restore the states after the alarm is disarm.
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I do like the idea of all the lights flashing red so there is an audible and visual indication of which house is being robbed . Am external siren is needed aswell as all the internal speakers
Very good video. I switched some time ago to the Alarmo integration from Niels Faber. It includes several of the features you created out of the box. E.g., notifications with the list of triggered sensors.
Yes, I know that HACS integration, but I do not use it myself. The Alarmo integration makes it a bit easier to configure the alarm panel, but the notifications do not make much sense for me because I use a motion sensor group. I am not aware that the Alarmo integration can send a push message to your phone. does it support flashing lights and triggering am mp3 through your speakers?
@@SmartHomeJunkie You can use notify service to send notifications in the in-build notifications of Alarmo. This works for me to get alerts in the Home Assistant app. It should also work for all other notifications supported in HA like Signal. You can trigger as action a script inside HA. In the script you can run flashing lights or play mp3 sounds. In addition Alarmo creates a alarm control panel which works like the one you used in the video. I use e.g., Node-Red to trigger more complex automations based on the status of the alarm control panel of Alarmo.
@@SmartHomeJunkie Alarmo can do a lot, and for what it can't do you can build automations that leverage alarmo. I for example created automations to choose what state alarmo should be in (basedon whether our phones are home, whether we are sleeping,...). Alarmo is really great.
@@SmartHomeJunkie yep, Alarmo can do all of those things
Problem is if you're not familiar with how to make scripts, doing these things in Alarmo is actually harder. There's no UI to do advanced things. I can't figure out how to flash lights and turn on my siren with it, so I'm going to follow this video and do it all manually. I really like the idea of Alarmo, I just don't want to spend 100 hours trying to figure out how to hook automatons into it. Why can't it just use existing automations?
Great video. Which motion sensor would you use today? That is pretty much the key to everything.
Still the Aqara ones here
Ed to the rescue again. This was going to my next project. Thank you very much. 👏🏻
Great to hear 👑
Very well explained ! TOP 👍
Nice video 👍 can you help me about how to ringing ringtone in my phone when alarm active, and some time get notification on phone only when my phone display is on or when unlock my phone
This is great. I learned a lot about states, triggers and automations from your video. One major problem with this is that if you arm it when one of the sensors is open (ie: a window) it will never trigger if/when one of the other sensors opens (I have 6 sensors).
True, but you can add an automation tag warns you if a door or window is still open. Or change the current automation that tests each door individually.
@@SmartHomeJunkie I tried changing the trigger so it is triggered by the 6 sensors instead of the Alarm sensor group. This triggers immediately after arming if one of the windows is open. I need to learn how to use variables (?) so that I can make it tell you which zone is open when it triggers. Do you have a video about using variables in HA?
@@garymorris9151 I'd create a template sensor that returns the open sensors. You might watch my Templates and Custom Sensors video for that.
Ich finde es super, das Deine Videos mit Untertitel sind, da mein Englisch leider nicht mehr so gut ist. Aber so ist das perfekt und Du hast mir schon tolle Anregungen geliefert. Mein Abo ist Dir sicher. Gruß Andy
Danke schön!
@@SmartHomeJunkie where can you get free siren mp3's?
Hello, I have a question for you: Can we put a password on any Sonoff brand relay? For example, I open my door with a relay, but sometimes my children accidentally touch the button and the door opens. I want to ensure that it opens only by setting a password, thank you.
Hmmm. Interesting question. I never tried that and I do not have a Sonoff relay to test it either.
Nice video, one little thing I'd like to address is the fact that the flashing lights and siren automations will also trigger on disarming the alarm from an armed state rather than only from a triggered state resulting in lights being on and volume be adjusted to 4 (alarm-disarmed triggers). This can be countered by adding "triggered" in "from state".
Just tested this. The flashing lights and siren are not triggered. It will however set the alarm lights to the disarmed state color when you disarm the alarm if it is not triggered. Thank you for this addition, Adding triggered to the from state in the alarm-is-disarmed triggers will indeed fix this!
Well spotted. Saves me having to turn off all the lights and reset my volumes after all my testing🤦🏻
What do you add exactly to stop this?
@@daleholden In the alarm-is-disarmed triggers you add the state "from": triggered "to": disarmed. That way the automation will only fire when going from the alarm being in state "triggered" to state "disarmed".
Thank you for all the support. Much appreciated!!
See this video for the new menu: The NEW Settings Menu in Home Assistant versus the Old Configuration Menu + FREE GIVE-AWAY
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The script is still working. You just need to go to the new menu structure.
Thank you for the turorial, its really been useful. I prefer it to Alarmo as my family uses Apple Home and I can easily expose the alarm controls without the need for a pin code so all their phones in Apple home. However, I just can't get the audio to work with the changes made to automations. Specifically the Mode part, changing single to Restart. I can't figure out where that function has gone in HA 2023.8 I really appreciate their UI updates but it's a full time job to keep up with their changes. Can anyone assist please?
It's been moved. Open up your Automation and click the three dots in the upper right hand corner; one of the options there is to change the mode.
King of HASS! Live long and prosper 🖖
Excellent walk through explaining the YAML and GUI config. And thanks for posting the final YAML code.
Thank you and you are very welcome!
congratulations and thanks ... I'm trying to put this tutorial into practice ..... is it possible to integrate a keypad to be placed at the entrance of the house and a system to activate and deactivate with the phone's nfc or a nfc tag? thank you
Yes, see my nfc tag reader video!
@@SmartHomeJunkie thanks I did some tests but I have some problems .... I tried both with the motion sensor and with the contact of the security door, but I have the same problem .... when I move or open the door contact does not nothing happens (even on the screen) pending does not appear ..... when I disarm with the code the lights come on (I think this is correct). help..why don't the flashing lights come on? thanks and congratulations.
Great video, I have not been able to get it to play Siren to Sonos Play1. It doesn't error, but no sound as it isn't turning on play1. If I go to HA, Media select Play1 and select alarm.mp3 it plays just fine. What else is needed to have it trigger Play1 from the automation. (Setting and triggering the alarm panel is also working) Thanks... Update: It's now working.... I was only using 1 play1 so I was calling the play1 entity and not a group. I created SonosSpeaker Group with just the Play1 in it. It is now working. Thank you again for this great video....
Great that you got this to work!
Thanks , this just what I am looking for. I have ADT x64 alarm system that have a number of zones connected to the alarm. I wish I could get the alarm system interegrated into HA. Really need this in South africa. Would help alot . Thanks for your great videos
Thanks for this nice Video! How can i display the Alarm Panel in Full Screen Mode? I want to create a page with only this Alarm Panel.
Set the view type of your dashboard to "panel".
@@SmartHomeJunkie thanks for the quick answer. Now the alarm panel is in Full Screen Mode but the icons and the text have the same size as before the change. Any Idea?
Great Job on the tutorial and thank you! How do i change the mode to Restart.... In my version of Home Assistant there is no option for changing the Automation mode... so my alarm just keeps ringing.
Yes, that has changed in the interface. Just click on the three dots in the upper right corner of the auutomation. You can change the mode there.
Thank you. Very high -quality effective.
You can add another piece or a short video, how to cancel or run the alarm one of the people go out of the house or coming to the house?
Thank you. See my geofencing or switch baseed on presence videos how to do this:
ruclips.net/video/J-b8BAefNGQ/видео.html
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Great Video! Many Thanks! But is there any way to modify the alarm panel card? The buttons are so small (too small for me) and maybe the style could be better. I already tried different methods, but noting really worked.
Thank you very much for this great video, it's really helpful!
Would it be possible to trigger the alarm if you enter the wrong code a specific number of times ?
I think the alarm is triggered already before you have time to type in the code multiple times 😉
Hi, very interesting and well explained subject.
A question.
How the code in config.yaml would look Like, if i would use the Presence of somebody of the Family at home instead of input a code?
The Idea behind is:
I would create a group consisting of all Family members with assigned mobiles. If the person is connected to the Home Wfi, a group woud set up to present and Alarm would be automatical disabled.
Would be great.
Thx
Is nice to know this function, I will try it
And I will back with questions 🤣
Thanks 🙏
Love the video, copied everything for my setup. I am trying to setup armed home with only contact sensors. But somewhere down the line I am failing. In the video you set Alarm montion sensors to "on" for action to trigger the automation. Is the same trigger for contact sensors. Or is it something else?
It should be the same, but you can check in Developer Tools -> State what the actual state of your contact sensors is. It might be that the states are "open" and "closed".
I want to thank you, this is one of the best tutorial on HA I found
Thank you!
You are amazing sir, congrats, but can I follow the same procedure for my konnected pro board?, i think it’s going to work like that, thanks
Thanks. I don't own a konnected pro board myself.
@@SmartHomeJunkie okay I think I will give a try
Your automations are SO MUCH more sophisticated than my trivial turn on, off, yes, no stuff :) I really have to get more into details. It's so much more straight forward! Thank you! BTW: What I'd really like to see is if you can SAVE THE STATE of the lamp before alarm goes off, and bring it back to this state once alarm is disarmed. Now I'm just turning it off, but it would be nice if it was as it was before. Any ideas? Same goes for the speaker volume.
This is possible. Watch my scenes on steroids video for that.
Ah nice. I was pretty sure you had and answer for that. I also purchased both configs. 😊
Just checked you ‚just‘ need to call service create scene and make a snapshot of the light. When the automation is done you call the scene again and bam. You’re done.
@@izemanevobike Thank you for your support 🙏🏻
@@izemanevobike Cool isn't it!
good video! You should check out Alarmo integration in HACs
I know Alarmo, but I like to do it myself so that I have more control.
@@SmartHomeJunkie very cool! Appreciate your work!
Hi.
Can I integrate my nest door bell in a way that, when it detects a familiar face to disarm the alarm automatically?
Thank you
Thank you.
Thanks again for your clear explanation.
I would like to know a little more about the possibility of debugging using 'Tracering' in HA .
Maybe an idea for your next video.
thanks
Sounds like a plan!
Hello, your videos are really great. Just me as a beginner love you. I'm in the process of setting everything up. I absolutely love the dashboard from the video, visible at minute 2:12. Is it possible that you make a video about it. Would have exactly the same look. I would be happy if I got an answer. Keep it up
Thanks! I do not use that dashboard anymore. Nowadays I mostly use mushroom cards.
@@SmartHomeJunkie do you have a video from a making off ?
@@sharemann You mean the making of my videos?
One of the better tutorials I've seen. 👍I will definitely do something further with this.
Thanks for sharing.
Thank you 🙏🏻
Hi Ed, great video and I've almost managed to set everything up now. But could you please explain to me how I have to configure this if all my speakers are Echo Dots? Because I can't enter a content type or a content ID.
You'll need the Alexa Media Player HACS Integration to be able to use them as a media player.
Very nice video. The sirene is the exact same sound as a Visonic Powermax, love it!
Thanks!
Nice work. I think you forgot just one thing.... When the state of the alarm changes to triggered, lights will blink and siren will sound, but if nothing happens and the state goes back from triggered to alarm away or alarm home .... It will still continue to flash and make noise :)
Well, only for a short period of time.
Cheers it works. only one question, is it possible to change the occupancy time of the Motion Sensor (in my case a Sonoff)
Hello! first of all very good video, but I wanted to ask you.
How do you do it so that the alarm continues with its last state when homeassistant is restarted?
You can do that by storing the state in a helper and use that in an automaton that triggers on restart.
Sorry, can you tell me where I finde the "Restart Mode" like in the Video at Minute 12:13 ? Thanks
Great video. I'm using an actual siren. How do I configure the audio section?
Great vid. How do you manage to supply the smart bulbs with power in the first place? There must be some kind of device like a shelly I guess. Otherwise the bulbs must be on all the time.
Smart bulbs are indeed always powered.
Hi brilliant video many thanks however I get up to 22:16 where you input the content ID which I do but my alexa says "to send tts please set announce equals true music cannot be played this way" Any advice please?
This was awesome thank you so much for the awesome Alarm setup , I bought your zip file :) worked perfect !
Thx for your support!
Brilliant clips of how to setup :-)
I am hard of hearing myself so what sort of speakers do you use? want it use for door bell, alarm, Welcome home message etc..... can you give me link of speaker device weather wall mount or ceiling mount speaker.
I use Google Home smart speakers like the Nest mini and Nest Hub.
@@SmartHomeJunkie many thanks for quick reply!
Do these linked with cloud? (HA send message to Nest mini without cloud involved)
Are they louder enough if turn up high?
trying to think mount on wall without eyesore by showing power cable.
@@davidforbes9299 Yes, I use the cloud ( www.home-assistant.io/integrations/google_assistant/ ). The volume is pretty loud, but I guess that's personal.
@@SmartHomeJunkie Morning, I just received Nest Mini this morning, yeah! going to setup through app linked up with Google home to setup wifi link, then I clicked your linked /integrations/google_assistant/ ... it shown "This page does not exist" - so what do I need to do to get Home Assistant to work with Nest?
Steps by steps please, as I am ongoing learning
@@davidforbes9299 I fixed the link ;)
Excellent update, thanks again for taking the time to remake this 👍
Good job !!!! 👍👍
Thank you for sharing your knowledge, i like the way you explain everything. Here is a question, how to a remove an old alarm entity?
Thx. Just remove it from your configuration.yaml and restart HA. If it's still there after that, refresh the cache of your browser.
@@SmartHomeJunkie"If it's still there after that, refresh the cache of your browser." That worked! Thanks again, after several restart and unsuccessful attempt, it was that easy!
Hi thanks for the tutotial. I have one question. How do you handle battery sensors? Because if sensor is on(open) and battery kicks out, the status stay on on and sensors group stay on, so when you arm the alarm, sensor group will never turn off anymore to react on an other sensor in the group that jump to on
Great video again. As a HA starter I really learn a lot from your videos. Thanks!
Thank you for your kind words Walter!
Is het ook mogelijk om de titels van de labels op het panel te wijzigen? Dus 'Arm away' aanpassen in een andere omschrijving?
Good question. I'd have to look into that.
@@SmartHomeJunkie I would be very interested in that too! Can't get it figured out
Great video right there. Thanks a lot. Quick question however, how does the phone notifications work when you are away and your HA setup works in local network only ? Thanks in advance!
The phone notification will probably not work of you do not have remote access. I never tested that 🤷🏼
@@SmartHomeJunkie thanks for the amazingly fast answer man. that would make sense not having it working.
I think various solutions can apply to cover this issue like:
- setting up email notifications instead
- subscribing to nabu casa
- setting up duckdns + letsencrypt
- set up VPN for your local network and use it while you're out of home on your mobile devices
Maybe I missed some but, here are the ideas I got on top of my head. Hope this helps everyone 😉
@@brakahiphop Thanks for this addition! You can also connect to Telegram. I might create a video of that one day... 😏
Hello your tutorial is awesome ! II made such an alarm at my home. and of course I have a question. i have a device. a siren connected to a smart socket it is not a speaker device. How to turn it on on media speaker alarm group?
Thx. I do not have such a device myself, so I do not know. But I guess that if you choose the device in actions, it might have an action that triggers it. 🤷🏼
Amazing video and very well explained.
Thank you so much for such a great content!
Hi Ed, great video, got the basics working (off course with your video as a guideline ;-) ), when entering the automation for flashing the lights at about 16:50 in yout video, you're entering an 'option'. I can't find that in my installation, I'm using version Home Assistant 2023.1.7, can you tell me where or how I can enter the option to set the lights in a 'normal' state after flashing red? Thanx in advance!
Thanks. I think you might have missed the step to add a choose action first in the actions area. You can add options within the choose action.
Is it possible to expand the automation and/or helper that the alarm only will be triggered when motion is detected by two or more different motion sensors? I'm using the Aqara P1 sensors and they give false positives on a regular basis. What I want is when two sensors detect motion within 5 minutes or so, then the alarm should be triggered. Is that possible?
Yes! You can group motion sensors in a helper and check on the state of that helper.
Hi, thank you so much for this wonderful video. Very nice tutorial. I have a question in regard to the best way to setup the sensors needed for Away vs Home. Obviously for Away, I will include all sensors (contact, motion etc.) BUT for Home, I don't want to inlude the motion sensors since we will be moving in the house. Is it better to setup 2 groups of sensors: 1 group for Away and 1 group for Home? Or jsut have 1 group and for the Away remove the motion from the list? Thank you
I would say create two groups. One for away and one for home.
Great Video, thanks! The thing I don't get is what is the purpose of the code? If someone got access to your HA dashboard they can do whatever they want, including just switching off the automations, so nothing will alert you even of the alarm triggers.
Minor comment, it is better to use a blinking effect instead of switching the lights back and forth. Some of the smart bulbs are saving their state to their flash memory and that memory has a very limited resource.
Hi Ivan,
It depends. How would someone r get access to the HA dashboard without having the companion app installed? And even if you have the dashboard on a tablet, you could let the tablet log in with a non administrator account and then someone could never change things. The blink effect is too short for this. I tried it, but it did not work the way I wanted it to work.
Great tutorial again!! Looking at your "My Devices" page couple of questions. do you have experiance with the Silvercrest gateway? or is it better to use the Conbee stick? have you placed this stick directly into the RPI?
Thx. I use the Conbee stick with an extension cable which is connected to my HA server.
@@SmartHomeJunkie OK. I'am running HA on a Odroid N2+ does the stick needs any installation?
@@wilsmit9266 No, just install deCONZ, Zigbee2MQTT or ZHA
Thank you very much
You're very welcome
Can i ask why not put the flashing lights and the siren in a single automation, as they both have the same trigger and conditions.
I wondered that as well but then thought it makes it easy to deactivate one without affecting the other.
Sure you can do that, but I thought that it would make the tutorial a bit more complex to understand. It was just for the tutorial purpose that I put them in two automations.
Thanks for the tutorial! I get this error from alexa "to use TTS, set announce equal to true, music can't be played this way" . . so I add "announce: true" to the yaml of the "perform action 'media player: play media' but when I do that I don't get the error, yet the audio (alarm) does not play, and I get no errors . . any idea where I'm gone wrong?
Hi would you create a video of using alarm system with physical keypad
If I only had one myself...
Thank you for the Update. I did not use the helper „ group“ yet. If so I have to delete my older groups, right ?
Yes, indeed. And make sure you empty your browser cache after that!
Great video!!!
Great video and I wondering if you know of a way to add a Hikvision Wi-Fi external siren to use with Alarmo in Home Assistant
I do not own such a siren myself, so it's hard for me to check it.
@@SmartHomeJunkie Thanks for the reply Ed.......I found out how to add the siren to Alarmo but on your video, its just if I was able to add the siren to HA and thats where the issue is......I will ask the HA community if anybody has been able to add the particular siren to HA
Very interesting video and explained very well.
It would be nice if you could receive a more detailed notification on your phone, for example indicating which sensor triggered the alarm.
I'll wait for the next video ;-)
That is definately possible.
@@SmartHomeJunkie How? Are there macros that can expand in the text message?
@@garymorris9151 If you test each devalue individually instead of in a group, you can store the triggered sensor in a (text) helper and show the value of that helper in the notification. There are more ways, for instance, create a custom template that returns all the open sensors and send that value in your notification.
I noticed the trigger to stop the alarm is when alarm is disarmed, which is great, but how does the action to stop the alarm sounding after 120 seconds work ? Does the alarm move from triggered to disarmed back to armed to deal with this?
Thanks
It gets armed again and if there's again motion detected, it will be triggered again. At least, that's what I think by heart.
@@SmartHomeJunkie Okay. So does that make the alarm sound and lights to stop without needing additional automations? I am in an area that requires alarms to automatically stop sounding after a set period of time after a trigger. Thanks :)
@@EsotericArctos I think so yes, but I'd have to test it to be sure. 🙃
Thanks for this! If I want to add my window/door sensors to my Home Alarm I guess I just make it as a sensor group as well?
You can add the door and window sensors to the same sensor group.
@@SmartHomeJunkie thanks. Oh and is there a way to only have this trigger time for the front door? And have all other sensors trigger the alarm without a time? I mean if my balcony is opened during Armed Away its probably a thief and I dont want to give him 120 sec free time :)
@@Gladers. Interesting user case. I don't think this is currently possible using the default alarm integration in Home Assistant.
@@SmartHomeJunkie Ah okok! This seems to be standard in the "professional" alarms on the market. Since because generally you only enter the house through the main door. And really all this feature need is a "Alarm control panel: trigger without time" lets hope they add it in the future! :)
@@Gladers. Well, you can trigger without time, but then it would also trigger if you enter the house yourself and you do not have time to disable the alarm before it triggers.
Dank voor je uitgebreide en heldere uitleg! Ik heb je stappen gevolgd en alles werkt. Het alarmpaneel werkt zoals het moet. De lampen beginnen te flikkeren wanneer het alarm is getriggerd, maar de sirene blijft stil. En dat begrijp ik niet. Ik heb de automatisering meerdere keren gecheckt en alles staat goed. Ook de url naar de mp3 file werkt. Heb ik getest in de browser. Maar toch werkt de automatisering niet. Enig idee waar dit aan zou kunnen liggen? Bij voorbaat dank voor je hulp!
Het is toch gelukt! Was de content type vergeten in te vullen. Alles werkt nu naar behoren!
Great Tutorial!!
Everything worked out except for the siren sound.
When it should start, i'm getting this message from Alexa instead of the siren sound: "sorry text to speech can only be called with the notify.alexa_media service..."
Am I doing something wrong there?
You are probably calling the text to speech service instead of the play media service.
I was informed that Alexa Media player notify does not play original MP3’s. They have to be converted. I can give you a link in how to do this if it’s ok with Ed.
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@@kevinhenryviii Sure. I understood that you can also use the default alarm sounds of a Alexa in the content ID field. For example:
amzn_sfx_sirens_01
The full list of sounds is here:
developer.amazon.com/en-US/docs/alexa/custom-skills/ask-soundlibrary.html
Nice update, but I would like to know if, for some reason the HA reboots, the alarm will remain armed after the HA reboot.
No, it doesn't, but you can fix that easily with a boolean helper and a check on that helper when HA restarts. If the alarm was armed before restarting you can arm the alarm automatically again based on the state of that helper.
@@SmartHomeJunkie Thank you.
hello and thank you .... very nice and useful
2 questions ... can I use an mp3 file (siren) as a notification ??? how you do it??
can i hear a beep when you arm after 30 seconds?
thank you
The video explains how to use an mp3. The beep should work in the same manner.
@@SmartHomeJunkie thank you. i tried but i can't hear the siren ... i put the mp3 file in www and i wrote .....
192.168.1.222:8123/local/www/alarm1.mp3
and
192.168.1.222:8123/www/alarm1.mp3
don't work
It should be 192.168.1.222:8123/local/alarm1.mp3
I want to use multiple Aqara M1 Hubs in my WiFi network for the sound of the Siren.
How do I trigger a ringtone on the Aqara HUb from Home assistant.
I do not know because I do not own an Aqara hub.
Danke!
You are so very welcome! Thank you for becoming a member 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
Great tutorial ! thank you
great explanation, just wondering how is this different than using Alarmo. does this give any additional functionality compared to Alarmo?
As far as I know, Alarmo is mainly frontend. Here I explain how you can get total control of the behavior of your alarm system. But what's more important is that you actually learn how to create anything you can think of in Home Assistant.
@@SmartHomeJunkie got it makes sense and learned a lot
Hi, Nice video. I downloaded the code because I was unable to stop the alarm lights from flashing. Unfortunately, it didn't work even if I executed the code exactly as shown in your automation text. It looks like the "until" condition doesn't work. It keeps flashing the alarmlights even though the status is disarmed. The alarmlights will not stop flashing until the 120 seconds have passed. What could be the cause of this? I hope you can help.
Solved. the problem was the lights itself. (To slow).
Hi, can you add also yaml for the automation you created? :)
Done 😉
i have problem pointing home assistant to the mp3 file, tried your guide but wont play sound, i have homeassistan os installed on a NUC, mabe its diffrent
there
It shouldn't be different.
@@SmartHomeJunkie i got it to work now. i put in my duckdns adress without portnumber and enterd /local/alarm1..
now it works. thanks
Great video. Just a small question, if we use scenes for lights, is it not good idea? Maybe we can create two scene for alarm lights, so we can use less option in the automation. For example Scene 1 : Flash red color, Scene 2: standart color.
Another question is, looks like you are using nest mini for speakers. Can we add this devices in the HA without nabu casa? Or we need to use nabu casa for google nest mini integration?
Yes, you can use scenes as well. You can use Nabu Casa or you can use DuckDNS with nginx reverse proxy to access the best speakers.
How can use google nest mini with duck dns? I’m using my domain name + nginx proxy but how can i add google nest mini?
Hi, nice video! I’d also like to have a sound in the “pending mode” even in the activation status. Is it possibile? Thank you!
Yes sure. Just add another automation that triggers on state pending and play a sound as the action just like playing a sound when the state is triggered.
@@SmartHomeJunkie yes, i did it exactly as you say. There’s only on thing that is annoying. If you disarm in the arming time sound continue to play forever…
@@Lordsheva80 I think you can fix that to create an automation that triggers a media.stop service when the state goes to disarmed and the previous state was pending.
@@SmartHomeJunkie even more simple. I change the until condition (was until is away) to while is in pending condition. I’ve also create a new one for the “pre trigger” state. Now it works like a charm.
@@Lordsheva80 Great to hear that you managed to find your own solution. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Hallo, ich habe den Code für die Automation runter geladen und bei mir eingefügt. Allerdings nutze ich Echo zur Ausgabe. Habe auch amzn_sfx_sirens_01 als Content id genommen, aber es ertönt keine Sirene. Nur die Änderung der Lautstärke erfolgt. Nehme ich für die Audioausgabe das Tablet geht alles. Kannst du mir einen Tipp geben warum nix aus dem Echo kommt?
Quando coloco o audio para testar recebo uma mensagem a alexa que diz o seguinte "to send tts please set announce=true. music can't be played this way" alguem tem ideia do que pode ser?
What type / model of alarm siren are you using in this project, Ed?
All my Google speakers.
Awesome video. I’m struggling a bit getting the audio file to play on the Sonos speaker. I’ve got the alarm mp3 file stored on the web server. If I use the mp3 url in a browser it plays fine. If I use it as the content ID then the action completes fine but the file doesn’t play through the speaker. If I use a web based url for a playlist this does work. Any ideas why it may not work with the local mp3? Been scratching my head all day LOL
You can try to set Enqueue to Play Now. This is a new setting in the actions of an automation.
@@SmartHomeJunkie - Thanks. I've already tested that and the other queue options. I've copied another MP3 file to the web server. Again, I can play the mp3 file with the web browser and URL, but the URL in a script or automation then it doesn't play. I'm not sure where to look to see if it's been requested by the sonos speaker from the web server logs.
@@markytowers I just tested it myself and the enqueue option is not the solution indeed. What happens if you just test that one action in the automation by clicking on the three dots in that specific action and then Run Action?
Also make sure that the content type is: music
You can also try calling the service in the developer tools and debug from there.
Is there a way to have the app alarm panel show up when you click the mobile notification?
That's an interesting question. I think you can do this with actionable notifications. See my video about actionable notifications how to set that up. I would use a url that points to the dashboard with the control panel on it.
where can you get free siren mp3's?
Do you have experience with using the Shelly Motion 2 and Shelly Door 2 as binary sensors for the alarm trigger? When test running the script I get the correct response but when activating the sensor the alarm does not trigger.
I'm sorry, but I do not own these devices mayself. Hopefully someone else can respond on your comment!
@@SmartHomeJunkie found out what the issue was: you can not group the Shelly Motion 2 sensors as a binary sensor group. If you do this they will not give an on signal when motion is detected. The correct way is to separate trigger for each Shelly motion sensor and add them as a device and not as a binary sensor.
yap one time save me that!!!!
I have it all working, but if a leave 1 door open (balcony for example) the alarm will not trigger. How can I fix that?
Ah yes, I didn't think about that use case indeed. In that case, the sensor group is already on, so it won't trigger. My first answer would be to only add those sensors to the group that you really want to be closed when you leave the house. You can also create an automation that checks all those sensors when you leave to house and get a message on your phone when one of the doors is still open.
configuration file can only be viewed by paying?
That is correct.
Did something change in Home assistant after the last update? Both groups give not available in automations? Automations are triggered when they change from on to off or vis versa, but thats not working anymore.
Not that I know off. It still works here.
@@SmartHomeJunkie Oke, I need to investigate this..... If I look in developer tools - states its oke, but if I try to use it in an automation with "somebody home" its state is unavailable.
@@Lowlander1961 That is strange indeed. It should be the same in the developer tools and automations.
How can I link it to my physical alarm pad which is detected via zigbee?
I do not own such an alarm pad. Maybe that someone else can answer this here?
@@SmartHomeJunkie I found my keypad has its own attributes and can be exposed to dashboard. Some other keypads need to be automated with alarmo to join both ias zones.
Hello Ed,
As an exception, I would like to contact you by email because I'm having problems setting up the alarm panel, which I can't solve with the best will in the world. I know this isn't the normal way, but I'm really stuck.
Greetings Andy
Ik heb je tutorial helemaal gevolgd maar kom er niet helemaal uit. Mijn lampen gaan niet knipperen. Deze blijven constant branden. Mogelijk is dit een manco van Hue en zal ik eens met de tijden van knipperen gaan spelen. Verder krijg ik het geluidsfragment niet afgespeeld. Ik heb je video van SAMBA integratie ook gevolgd maar daar leg je niet in uit wat je bedoeld met de WWW map. Ik krijg met deze video wel prima mijn HA vanuit Windows gevonden en kan scrollen door de aanwezige mappen. Heb je dat in een andere video soms nog verder uitgelegd? Dan moet ik er zeker uitkomen. Echt respect voor je video's je legt het top en rustig uit. Alvast bedankt!!
Nou, da's best veel. Ik geloof dat ik de www folder wel uitleg in deze video. Je moet in de action verwijzen naar /local/alarm1.mp3 en de file in je config/www folder zetten. En als je lampen niet gaan knipperen lijkt het erop dat je toch nog een foutje hebt zitten in de automation om je lichten te laten knipperen. Ik heb hier ook hue en die werken goed. Wel met Zigbee2MQTT draaien, dus niet met de hue bridge.
@@SmartHomeJunkie bedankt voor je snelle reactie. Ik ga ermee aan de slag
sorry moet zijn 192 ipv 195 Hoe kan ik verder naderhand verlichting of sensoren toevoegen aan een bestaande groep? sorry als ik je zo bestook maar ik vind dit allemaal machtig interessant. Mijn SSD met kabel zijn inmiddels ook onderweg dus daar ga ik je video ook voor raadplegen ;-)
@@TheOfficer01 Je kan een groep gewoon bewerken en nieuwe devices er aan toevoegen.
Kun je ook een video maken over alarmo
Dat kan ik wel, maar dat ga ik voorlopig niet doen verwacht ik :) Met deze video bereik je hetzelfde.
Everything's great, except the siren mp3. Alexa says: "Sorry, text to speech can only be called with the notify dot alexa underscore media service. Please see the Alexa underscore media Wiki for details."
What did we do wrong. I mean, what did *I* do wrong? Yours works, obviously. 🙂
I use Google Home and do not have Alexa myself. For Alexa you need to use a different approach. See the description below the video for that.