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 😉

Great video!!!

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.

@SmartHomeJunkie

2 жыл бұрын

Top.

Thank you.

Is nice to know this function, I will try it And I will back with questions 🤣 Thanks 🙏

Amazing video and very well explained. Thank you so much for such a great content!

Thank you very much

@SmartHomeJunkie

2 жыл бұрын

You're very welcome

Great video again. As a HA starter I really learn a lot from your videos. Thanks!

@SmartHomeJunkie

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for your kind words Walter!

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

@SmartHomeJunkie

6 ай бұрын

Danke schön!

@nics8040

2 ай бұрын

@@SmartHomeJunkie where can you get free siren mp3's?

Cheers it works. only one question, is it possible to change the occupancy time of the Motion Sensor (in my case a Sonoff)

Excellent walk through explaining the YAML and GUI config. And thanks for posting the final YAML code.

@SmartHomeJunkie

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you and you are very welcome!

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

Excellent update, thanks again for taking the time to remake this 👍

@eduardobodega5886

2 жыл бұрын

Good job !!!! 👍👍

Great tutorial ! thank you

King of HASS! Live long and prosper 🖖

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.

@SmartHomeJunkie

2 жыл бұрын

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?

@rtaussem9138

2 жыл бұрын

​@@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.

@PersonXes

2 жыл бұрын

@@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.

@Sparky_D

2 жыл бұрын

@@SmartHomeJunkie yep, Alarmo can do all of those things

@ramppage

2 жыл бұрын

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?

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

@SmartHomeJunkie

2 жыл бұрын

Sounds like a plan!

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).

@SmartHomeJunkie

Жыл бұрын

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.

@garymorris9151

Жыл бұрын

@@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?

@SmartHomeJunkie

Жыл бұрын

@@garymorris9151 I'd create a template sensor that returns the open sensors. You might watch my Templates and Custom Sensors video for that.

Great video. I'm using an actual siren. How do I configure the audio section?

Danke!

@SmartHomeJunkie

2 жыл бұрын

You are so very welcome! Thank you for becoming a member 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

I want to thank you, this is one of the best tutorial on HA I found

@SmartHomeJunkie

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

One of the better tutorials I've seen. 👍I will definitely do something further with this. Thanks for sharing.

@SmartHomeJunkie

8 ай бұрын

Thank you 🙏🏻

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?

@SmartHomeJunkie

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you. See my geofencing or switch baseed on presence videos how to do this: kzread.info/dash/bejne/fGGWmqR6lcm0d7Q.html kzread.info/dash/bejne/op5127SHZbjPcso.html

Ed to the rescue again. This was going to my next project. Thank you very much. 👏🏻

@SmartHomeJunkie

2 жыл бұрын

Great to hear 👑

Thank you for all the support. Much appreciated!!

@SmartHomeJunkie

8 ай бұрын

See this video for the new menu: The NEW Settings Menu in Home Assistant versus the Old Configuration Menu + FREE GIVE-AWAY kzread.info/dash/bejne/gqKXpq5skrmXg6Q.html The script is still working. You just need to go to the new menu structure.

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

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

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 for sharing your knowledge, i like the way you explain everything. Here is a question, how to a remove an old alarm entity?

@SmartHomeJunkie

2 жыл бұрын

Thx. Just remove it from your configuration.yaml and restart HA. If it's still there after that, refresh the cache of your browser.

@b3y0urs3lf

2 жыл бұрын

@@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!

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....

@SmartHomeJunkie

2 жыл бұрын

Great that you got this to work!

good video! You should check out Alarmo integration in HACs

@SmartHomeJunkie

2 жыл бұрын

I know Alarmo, but I like to do it myself so that I have more control.

@MarkGhali

2 жыл бұрын

@@SmartHomeJunkie very cool! Appreciate your work!

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".

@SmartHomeJunkie

2 жыл бұрын

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!

@kevinhenryviii

2 жыл бұрын

Well spotted. Saves me having to turn off all the lights and reset my volumes after all my testing🤦🏻

@daleholden

2 жыл бұрын

What do you add exactly to stop this?

@laurens2986

2 жыл бұрын

@@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".

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!

@SmartHomeJunkie

Жыл бұрын

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.

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

@SmartHomeJunkie

Жыл бұрын

I would say create two groups. One for away and one for home.

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.

@SmartHomeJunkie

Жыл бұрын

This is possible. Watch my scenes on steroids video for that.

@izemanevobike

Жыл бұрын

Ah nice. I was pretty sure you had and answer for that. I also purchased both configs. 😊

@izemanevobike

Жыл бұрын

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.

@SmartHomeJunkie

Жыл бұрын

@@izemanevobike Thank you for your support 🙏🏻

@SmartHomeJunkie

Жыл бұрын

@@izemanevobike Cool isn't it!

This was awesome thank you so much for the awesome Alarm setup , I bought your zip file :) worked perfect !

@SmartHomeJunkie

Жыл бұрын

Thx for your support!

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 ;-)

@SmartHomeJunkie

2 жыл бұрын

That is definately possible.

@garymorris9151

Жыл бұрын

@@SmartHomeJunkie How? Are there macros that can expand in the text message?

@SmartHomeJunkie

Жыл бұрын

@@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.

Very nice video. The sirene is the exact same sound as a Visonic Powermax, love it!

@SmartHomeJunkie

Жыл бұрын

Thanks!

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

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

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?

@SmartHomeJunkie

2 жыл бұрын

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. 🤷🏼

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?

@MatthewN8OHU

5 ай бұрын

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.

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?

@SmartHomeJunkie

2 жыл бұрын

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".

Thank you for the Update. I did not use the helper „ group“ yet. If so I have to delete my older groups, right ?

@SmartHomeJunkie

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, indeed. And make sure you empty your browser cache after that!

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.

@MatthewN8OHU

5 ай бұрын

You'll need the Alexa Media Player HACS Integration to be able to use them as a media player.

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?

@SmartHomeJunkie

2 жыл бұрын

Thx. I use the Conbee stick with an extension cable which is connected to my HA server.

@wilsmit9266

2 жыл бұрын

@@SmartHomeJunkie OK. I'am running HA on a Odroid N2+ does the stick needs any installation?

@SmartHomeJunkie

2 жыл бұрын

@@wilsmit9266 No, just install deCONZ, Zigbee2MQTT or ZHA

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.

@SmartHomeJunkie

Жыл бұрын

Smart bulbs are indeed always powered.

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

Жыл бұрын

The phone notification will probably not work of you do not have remote access. I never tested that 🤷🏼

@brakahiphop

Жыл бұрын

@@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 😉

@SmartHomeJunkie

Жыл бұрын

@@brakahiphop Thanks for this addition! You can also connect to Telegram. I might create a video of that one day... 😏

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

@SmartHomeJunkie

Жыл бұрын

Thanks! I do not use that dashboard anymore. Nowadays I mostly use mushroom cards.

@sharemann

Жыл бұрын

@@SmartHomeJunkie do you have a video from a making off ?

@SmartHomeJunkie

Жыл бұрын

@@sharemann You mean the making of my videos?

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.

@SmartHomeJunkie

2 жыл бұрын

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.

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

@SmartHomeJunkie

Жыл бұрын

Thanks. I don't own a konnected pro board myself.

@aliyunoura

Жыл бұрын

@@SmartHomeJunkie okay I think I will give a try

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.

@SmartHomeJunkie

7 ай бұрын

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.

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?

@SmartHomeJunkie

2 жыл бұрын

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.

@okanerdem

2 жыл бұрын

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?

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

Жыл бұрын

Yes, see my nfc tag reader video!

@DigitalVideoEdit

Жыл бұрын

@@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 and I wondering if you know of a way to add a Hikvision Wi-Fi external siren to use with Alarmo in Home Assistant

@SmartHomeJunkie

Жыл бұрын

I do not own such a siren myself, so it's hard for me to check it.

@bruceker8254

Жыл бұрын

@@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

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!

2 жыл бұрын

Het is toch gelukt! Was de content type vergeten in te vullen. Alles werkt nu naar behoren!

great explanation, just wondering how is this different than using Alarmo. does this give any additional functionality compared to Alarmo?

@SmartHomeJunkie

2 жыл бұрын

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.

@Paata02

2 жыл бұрын

@@SmartHomeJunkie got it makes sense and learned a lot

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?

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?

@SmartHomeJunkie

Жыл бұрын

You can do that by storing the state in a helper and use that in an automaton that triggers on restart.

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.

@SmartHomeJunkie

5 ай бұрын

Set the view type of your dashboard to "panel".

@marcel3468

5 ай бұрын

@@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?

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.

@SmartHomeJunkie

9 ай бұрын

Hmmm. Interesting question. I never tried that and I do not have a Sonoff relay to test it either.

Nice update, but I would like to know if, for some reason the HA reboots, the alarm will remain armed after the HA reboot.

@SmartHomeJunkie

2 жыл бұрын

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.

@JoseBerruezo

2 жыл бұрын

@@SmartHomeJunkie Thank you.

Hi, can you add also yaml for the automation you created? :)

@SmartHomeJunkie

2 жыл бұрын

Done 😉

Sorry, can you tell me where I finde the "Restart Mode" like in the Video at Minute 12:13 ? Thanks

Hi would you create a video of using alarm system with physical keypad

@SmartHomeJunkie

Жыл бұрын

If I only had one myself...

What type / model of alarm siren are you using in this project, Ed?

@SmartHomeJunkie

2 жыл бұрын

All my Google speakers.

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!

@SmartHomeJunkie

2 жыл бұрын

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.

@Lordsheva80

2 жыл бұрын

@@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…

@SmartHomeJunkie

2 жыл бұрын

@@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.

@Lordsheva80

2 жыл бұрын

@@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.

@SmartHomeJunkie

2 жыл бұрын

@@Lordsheva80 Great to hear that you managed to find your own solution. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

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 :)

@SmartHomeJunkie

3 ай бұрын

Well, only for a short period of time.

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

Жыл бұрын

The video explains how to use an mp3. The beep should work in the same manner.

@DigitalVideoEdit

Жыл бұрын

@@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

@SmartHomeJunkie

Жыл бұрын

It should be 192.168.1.222:8123/local/alarm1.mp3

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

Жыл бұрын

You can try to set Enqueue to Play Now. This is a new setting in the actions of an automation.

@markytowers

Жыл бұрын

@@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.

@SmartHomeJunkie

Жыл бұрын

@@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?

@SmartHomeJunkie

Жыл бұрын

Also make sure that the content type is: music

@SmartHomeJunkie

Жыл бұрын

You can also try calling the service in the developer tools and debug from there.

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

Жыл бұрын

I use Google Home smart speakers like the Nest mini and Nest Hub.

@davidforbes9299

Жыл бұрын

@@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.

@SmartHomeJunkie

Жыл бұрын

@@davidforbes9299 Yes, I use the cloud ( www.home-assistant.io/integrations/google_assistant/ ). The volume is pretty loud, but I guess that's personal.

@davidforbes9299

Жыл бұрын

@@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

Жыл бұрын

@@davidforbes9299 I fixed the link ;)

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?

@SmartHomeJunkie

Жыл бұрын

Yes! You can group motion sensors in a helper and check on the state of that helper.

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.

@SmartHomeJunkie

2 жыл бұрын

I do not know because I do not own an Aqara hub.

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

Жыл бұрын

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.

@EsotericArctos

Жыл бұрын

@@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

Жыл бұрын

@@EsotericArctos I think so yes, but I'd have to test it to be sure. 🙃

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.

@PhilippeLeToquin

2 жыл бұрын

I wondered that as well but then thought it makes it easy to deactivate one without affecting the other.

@SmartHomeJunkie

2 жыл бұрын

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.

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

Жыл бұрын

I'm sorry, but I do not own these devices mayself. Hopefully someone else can respond on your comment!

@pieternagels6476

Жыл бұрын

@@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!!!!

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?

@SmartHomeJunkie

2 жыл бұрын

You are probably calling the text to speech service instead of the play media service.

@kevinhenryviii

2 жыл бұрын

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. kzread.info/dash/bejne/jH6gqpikabO_ZKw.html

@SmartHomeJunkie

2 жыл бұрын

@@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

@SmartHomeJunkie

2 жыл бұрын

The full list of sounds is here: developer.amazon.com/en-US/docs/alexa/custom-skills/ask-soundlibrary.html

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?

Is there a way to have the app alarm panel show up when you click the mobile notification?

@SmartHomeJunkie

Жыл бұрын

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.

Kun je ook een video maken over alarmo

@SmartHomeJunkie

2 жыл бұрын

Dat kan ik wel, maar dat ga ik voorlopig niet doen verwacht ik :) Met deze video bereik je hetzelfde.

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.

@laszlonieuwenhuizen5014

9 ай бұрын

Solved. the problem was the lights itself. (To slow).

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?

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?

@SmartHomeJunkie

2 жыл бұрын

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.

Is het ook mogelijk om de titels van de labels op het panel te wijzigen? Dus 'Arm away' aanpassen in een andere omschrijving?

@SmartHomeJunkie

2 жыл бұрын

Good question. I'd have to look into that.

@stw-py9hz

Жыл бұрын

@@SmartHomeJunkie I would be very interested in that too! Can't get it figured out

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

@SmartHomeJunkie

Жыл бұрын

It shouldn't be different.

@jonasdromberg4365

Жыл бұрын

@@SmartHomeJunkie i got it to work now. i put in my duckdns adress without portnumber and enterd /local/alarm1.. now it works. thanks

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

Жыл бұрын

Not that I know off. It still works here.

@Lowlander1961

Жыл бұрын

@@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

Жыл бұрын

@@Lowlander1961 That is strange indeed. It should be the same in the developer tools and automations.

where can you get free siren mp3's?

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!!

@SmartHomeJunkie

2 жыл бұрын

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.

@TheOfficer01

2 жыл бұрын

@@SmartHomeJunkie bedankt voor je snelle reactie. Ik ga ermee aan de slag

@TheOfficer01

2 жыл бұрын

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 ;-)

@SmartHomeJunkie

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheOfficer01 Je kan een groep gewoon bewerken en nieuwe devices er aan toevoegen.

I use an https address for my home assistant. i can't access the audio file is there any way around this?

@SmartHomeJunkie

2 жыл бұрын

I think you should be able to access the file if you use https.

How can I link it to my physical alarm pad which is detected via zigbee?

@SmartHomeJunkie

Жыл бұрын

I do not own such an alarm pad. Maybe that someone else can answer this here?

@RealKanashii

Жыл бұрын

@@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.

configuration file can only be viewed by paying?

@SmartHomeJunkie

Жыл бұрын

That is correct.

are you code for sale or for free because every time I go to your page I donnot see any dowload link . Only the pay option

@SmartHomeJunkie

Жыл бұрын

You can download the code for a small sponsor fee.

IN the control panel the code in the card is arm_away but in the automation you used armed_away ? I cannot get it to move to pending i have door / window sensors mixed with motion. i have checked the motion in dev tools it works but its not moving the automation into pending alias: 'Alarm: Trigger Alarm Away' description: '' trigger: - platform: state entity_id: binary_sensor.alarm_door_window_sensors to: 'on' condition: - condition: state entity_id: alarm_control_panel.home_alarm state: arm_away action: - service: alarm_control_panel.alarm_trigger data: {} target: entity_id: alarm_control_panel.home_alarm mode: single

@SmartHomeJunkie

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, the state of the entity Home Alarm is armed_away when you Arm Away. See the state in developer tools for that.

@daleholden

2 жыл бұрын

@@SmartHomeJunkie I have no idea what is going on i folowed it again i can see the correct entity but i cannot get the Alarm to show pending i have tried 3 different door , motion which all work in Development mode but not triggering in HA. I set Alarm away it flashes arming if i open a door or move it does nothing:( . It then arms and i can disarm it no issue but pending like you show does not happen. How can i debug i really want to get it working

@SmartHomeJunkie

2 жыл бұрын

@@daleholden Can you double check the code in your configuration.yaml? Might be that the pending state had an incorrect value there?

@SmartHomeJunkie

2 жыл бұрын

Your state in the automation should be armed_away, not arm_away.

@daleholden

2 жыл бұрын

@@SmartHomeJunkie hi it is armed_away ```alias: 'Alarm: Trigger Alarm Away' description: '' trigger: - platform: state entity_id: binary_sensor.alarm_door_window_sensors to: 'on' condition: - condition: state entity_id: alarm_control_panel.home_alarm state: armed_away action: - service: alarm_control_panel.alarm_trigger data: {} target: entity_id: alarm_control_panel.home_alarm mode: single```

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. 🙂

@SmartHomeJunkie

2 жыл бұрын

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.

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

Alrmio🤫

I have the hardest time figuring out how to set up then access the "www" folder

@SmartHomeJunkie

8 ай бұрын

Setting up and accessing the "www" folder can be tricky, but when you install the studio code server add-on, you can simply access it.

Why not just use Alarmo?

@SmartHomeJunkie

2 жыл бұрын

Sure, you can use Alarmo too, but this video makes you able to tailor your alarm exactly the way you want it. And, in the process you learn so much more about how Home Assistant actually works.

how does the system work in the event of an internet or power failure? without this security it cannot be described as a professional alarm system.

@SmartHomeJunkie

2 жыл бұрын

That's why I say "professional" within quotes at the end of the video. ;)

@ramppage

2 жыл бұрын

You could take it to the next level and add cellular internet and put a UPS on key componenents (eg standalone siren). Still not quite professional, but better.