Build Your Own Alarm System with Alarmo and Home Assistant

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Use all the sensors you have installed in your home automation system to create a custom alarm system with Alarmo and Home Assistant.
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00:00 Intro
00:19 Install Alarmo Integrations
02:40 Alarmo Intro and Features
05:44 Alarmo Functionality
06:25 Alarmo General Settings
07:08 Alarmo Sensors
09:49 Change Sensor Device Type
12:50 Advanced Sensor Settings
14:29 Sensor Groups
16:14 MQTT with Alarmo
17:31 User Setup
18:08 Actions and Notifications
19:10 Alarmo Custom Card
21:36 Wrap Up

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@jimbrewer5821 2 жыл бұрын

Chris, Great video. You covered quite a bit of info in just 22.minutes. You really gave a great overview of Alarmo. Thanks!

@mostlychris 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks! Sometimes I feel I'm too wordy and videos get long.

@moshguy 2 жыл бұрын

I spent two hours yesterday configuring a rather complex system of sensors. I wish I knew this existed yesterday.

@mostlychris 2 жыл бұрын

Time to move it all over!

@nics8040 Ай бұрын

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

@berttammer4900 Жыл бұрын

Hi Chris, again a very clear video this time about about Alarmo. I most certainly will implement it in my setup. Thanks!

@mostlychris Жыл бұрын

Excellent! Thanks for watching!

@Eric-qm4vm Жыл бұрын

Hi Chris, I love the channel. You are a great teacher. Thanks for the wealth of knowledge. I am a new subscriber today.

@jmr 2 жыл бұрын

Great video. I had wondered why not use the built in panel at first. You certainly answered that!

@mostlychris 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@felt505 2 жыл бұрын

Been meaning to setup this integration. Thanks for the motivation.

@mostlychris 2 жыл бұрын

Glad I could help, lol!

@PedrokasPT 2 жыл бұрын

Great Tutorial Chris ! I was really looking for this :-) Thanks a lot and greetings from Portugal !

@mostlychris 2 жыл бұрын

Hello in Portugal! Thanks for the compliments!

@luisma1161 5 ай бұрын

Great video thanks for posting it

@Tntdruid 2 жыл бұрын

Great video as always. ☕

@mostlychris 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@benilev7328 2 жыл бұрын

Great video as always

@mostlychris 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@edwardlytton1548 2 жыл бұрын

Great video and good Tutorial 👍

@mostlychris 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you 👍

@JohnMacGuy Жыл бұрын

GREAT Video! Thank you. This was the only place I could find to install the version of the Alarmo card that shows the large badges for state and have the option to bypass open sensors on arming and resizing. One thing I had to do was to use the Yaml code for the new card (per the Alarmo documentation): type: 'custom:alarmo-card' entity: alarm_control_panel.alarmo The one area I got a little confused was the MQTT communication between Alarmo and a KeyPad. I enabled MQTT in Alarmo General. But never understood how to actually send and receive commands/states between the two. I use ZHA and have an Xfinity Zigbee Keypad that I can press the arm type button on top row followed by 4-digit PIN and it will automatically arm/disarm Alarmo (needed so create a service and use zha_event to trigger) ...so It can clearly talk to Alarmo, but can't co other direction (to sync up for instance) or anything else. Do you have a video on this, or a reference to look at? Thanks again

@demosixt 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@mostlychris 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you!! You're my first Super Thanks since YT finally enabled it on my channel!!

@richardsm 2 жыл бұрын

Great video! Been considering getting some more sensors and working on this project.

@mostlychris 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks. Do it!

@demosixt 2 жыл бұрын

Ive been looking for a video that explains how the motion sensors and entities are used. Been granilularly trying to work out the little things for months. Thank You Greatly! I couldnt read the documentation pages cause it wouldnt register. Mother of gawd thanks again

@mostlychris 2 жыл бұрын

I hope I'm interpreting your comment correctly.. Sounds like you got things working??

@Copia-ib3ms 29 күн бұрын

Great job Thank you I dont have the list off sensors, how can solve?

@StePhanMckillen 2 жыл бұрын

10 out 10 bro

@mostlychris 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks!!

@mluisx 3 ай бұрын

Is there a way that you can create a tutorial with different types of wall panels (classic keyboards also) for using them with Alarmo?

@jasonflt Жыл бұрын

Chris can you please do a video on changing the look of Alarmo PLEASE!!. The standard front end sucks for look.

@trdsclan9061 2 жыл бұрын

First of all thank you for posting this video! It really helped me a lot in answering some questions. I do have a problem but that is more related to some Aqara door sensors that disconnects in a random way from Home Assistant and I always have to reconnect the sensor manually. Is there something that I may have done wrong or the Aqara door sensors is not fully Zigbee compliant? Can you recommend some stable sensors or its better to integrate a manufacturer alarm system to Home Assistant? And if so which ones will you recommend? Thanks!

@mostlychris 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching! You've got a number of questions there, lol. I have some Aqara sensors and I haven't had any issues with them. How are you connecting the sensors to HA? I am using Wifi via the Homekit integration (for now) and they've been solid. As far as manufacturer alarms, I wouldn't do anything cloud based if you can help it. I have a DSC alarm panel that I wired in myself. To get connectivity, I talk directly to an Eyezon board via local IP address. I want to move it all over to Konnected though. That one sounds like it would be more suitable for how I like to run things.

@subthousandoaks 2 жыл бұрын

@mostlychris 2 жыл бұрын

Sure thing.

@richardcarter5404 2 жыл бұрын

Great video, I have actually been considering setting up an alarm system within Home Assistant after I watched a few other tutorials but this addon is by far the best. Will definitely be giving this a try. Has anyone got a Zigbee/Z-Wave siren that they use? I was going to play a siren mp3 file on all my smart speakers around the house at full volume

@mostlychris 2 жыл бұрын

I like the smart speaker option. Only concern on that is if the Internet is down, might not do anything. This might be something you can use. amzn.to/375zTV6

@rolandschuepbach6836 2 жыл бұрын

Hi Chris, thanks for all your great videos. Tried to install the Alarmo yesterday. Could download in HASC, but the integration is NOT showing up in HA (despite restarting HA). I did it 3 times. No changes. Do you have any idea what I am missing?

@mostlychris 2 жыл бұрын

Did you click on the "Add Integration" button on the bottom right of the screen? If so, does it show in that list or just not at all? If it's not there, check your logs to see if anything shows up.

@DigitalVideoEdit Жыл бұрын

hello thanks and congratulations for the tutorial ..... I have a couple of problems ... in my notifications I find Google say .. I set the group of my 2 speakers but when I launch the test it tells me that I have not loaded the media. .... as if I had not loaded an audio file to play .... second question .... it is possible to integrate NFC tags to turn on and off ..... grazieeeee

@jamegrabham9992 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks, Chris...Great video...I was looking for something like this...:) Can this alarm system be activated by just leaving the home (presence detection)? Rather than opening HA on the phone or wall screen and pressing "activate"? and deactivate when returning home?

@mostlychris 2 жыл бұрын

Yes. There is a call service action you can call in automations for alarmo that allows you to specify the mode (away, home, etc), exit delay enable/disable, and force arm. You'll have to create the conditions that would fire the action, such as entity not home.

@JoseBerruezo 2 жыл бұрын

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

@mostlychris 2 жыл бұрын

It is supposed to. That is in the docs and I think I mentioned it. Previous state should be retained.

@JoseBerruezo 2 жыл бұрын

@@mostlychris Thank you

@sylvaish 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Chris I have the Alarmo panel up and working and recently added the Ring integration ... How do I get the panel to display the codes at the bottom so I can disarm with the ring Alarm code ... Currently it just disarms without inputting any code

@mostlychris 2 жыл бұрын

Not sure if this is related to how Ring works or interprets codes, but in Alarmo under the settings there is a "CODES" tab that allows you to set an arm and/or disarm code. You can set different codes for different users as well.

@christopherscott1652 2 жыл бұрын

When did you complete this? v1.3.0 of the alarmo-card is unavailable via HACS on 4/24. I can only download v1.2.3 which doesn't appear to have the "Arming Options" button.

@christopherscott1652 2 жыл бұрын

I just figured it out. v1.3.0 was relabeled as "main" in the list of versions.

@mostlychris 2 жыл бұрын

Whew! I really hate when I make a video and something disappears or changes--looking at you, Nest. Glad you found it!

@TLuyten 2 жыл бұрын

I use alarmo but I'm missing a function in it to disable some sensors when my robot vacuum is going around. This could be done as a condition but is not available in the alarmo integration. The vacuum always triggers my home alarm.

@mostlychris 2 жыл бұрын

Can you move the sensors to another mode and switch modes to one that doesn't have those sensors enabled while the vacuum is running? That must be a powerful vac. I've got a Neato BotVac and it hasn't ever tripped the sensors.

@Saun2020 2 жыл бұрын

Hi Chris, Phone notification worked earlier. After update to Home Assistant OS 8.1, doesn't work any more. any idea please

@mostlychris 2 жыл бұрын

Check to make sure your phone device is still listed correctly (didn't change names, etc). I had to clear the cache and settings on my android app for some custom cards to work and that ended up changing the name of my device and all alerts stopped working. I can't think of a reason why an OS update would break things.

@Saun2020 2 жыл бұрын

@@mostlychris Thank you so much😀😀

@richardcarter5404 2 жыл бұрын

I just installed this but for some reason I cannot see the custom alarm card, I tried first on my test machine and then on my actual HA machine but the only alarm card available does not show the countdown when arming etc or there are no options for sizing when setting the card up. Any ideas what might be wrong?

@mostlychris 2 жыл бұрын

I can't remember if I mentioned this in the video but you need to make sure you also install the alarmo card in addition to alarmo itself. Those two things are separate installs via HACS.

@richardcarter5404 2 жыл бұрын

@@mostlychris I did eventually get the custom alarm card to show. I tried the whole process again the next day and low and behold it worked ! Who knows why, maybe it was me clearing the browser cache a million times lol

@mostlychris 2 жыл бұрын

@@richardcarter5404 That nasty browser cache!

@nics8040 Ай бұрын

where can you get free siren mp3's?

@bardockssj4 2 жыл бұрын

Great tutorial but i have a problem, the Actions are not triggered. I am trying to flash the lights.

@mostlychris 2 жыл бұрын

How are you trying to trigger them?

@bardockssj4 2 жыл бұрын

@@mostlychris tried by Alarmo-Actions, had grouped all the lights with call service lights turn on repeat until disarm. I finally did it outside from alarmo, by Automation.

@JamieVids76 2 жыл бұрын

Interesting, now home assistant is solid enough it is my next venture (an alarm) and I'm NOT buying a boundary UK youtubers, I'm really not 😂. I want to repourpose the siren on my house with esphome (as well as some temperature and humidity readings). This looks a good option.

@mostlychris 2 жыл бұрын

Awesome! Not being UK, I don't know the boundary reference.

@JamieVids76 2 жыл бұрын

@@mostlychris all of the UK guys have done a video on this alarm, clever marketing from this company. Its a good looking option for an alarm tbh, if it's all you want, police response etc. (for £25 a month) and what appears a solid system, I'm sticking with my reolink cameras and home assistant though.

@JamieVids76 2 жыл бұрын

@@mostlychris another thing actually, as part of an alarm system, I would like to bluetooth and wifi sniff, if someone is around my house, I would like to be able to prove it, bluetooth sniffing for a mac address would be a good addition. What do you think about this?

@mostlychris 2 жыл бұрын

You bring up a point--there is no remote monitoring with a system like this. You are reliant on being somewhere with your smart device to get a notification. For those that MUST have remote monitoring (and it's not cheap/overpriced) there are other options. Regarding bluetooth sniffing, that is an interesting concept. I wonder about the viability. Have you seen that in production in any type of setup anywhere?

@JamieVids76 2 жыл бұрын

@@mostlychris no, just an idea. If you have camera's they (budding thieves) have hoods, so to be able to prove someone has been stealing your stuff a good mac address from their mobile (granted they would have to leave their bluetooth on) would be proof they were there. I got the idea when I enabled bluetooth tracking and a load of unknown phones appeared in my "known devices.yaml". As for remote monitoring, police are sparse around here, and thieves are smash and grab, in and out fast so I don't see the value in it.

@stargazer0953 2 жыл бұрын

There is no field for entity in the Alarmo card. Using the version labeled "main".

@mostlychris 2 жыл бұрын

Mine shows as alarm_control_panel.alarmo. Do you show an area created in the alarmo configuration panel (should see the alarmo icon in the side bar).

@stargazer0953 2 жыл бұрын

@@mostlychris All mine originally showed was "type: custom:alarmo-card" and nothing else. I was reading some more information on the card and then added "entity: alarm_control_panel.alarmo" and now everything seems to work correctly. Thank you for your reply.

@mostlychris 2 жыл бұрын

Glad you got it working and thanks for watching!

@lloydrogers8265 Жыл бұрын

How to make a account

@mostlychris Жыл бұрын

Not sure what you are asking.

@easthulk99 2 жыл бұрын

My house don't have any wing.... only my rc airplane have wings😁😁😁😉

@mostlychris 2 жыл бұрын

😂Someone caught that!

@asdkjh4370 2 жыл бұрын

Hmm maybe some sneek peek to other platforms would be baneficial - HA is getting limited and besides it seems like forum becoming more and more politically inclined., When someone asked HA be apollitical - developers banned him? That is not great athmosphere.

@mostlychris 2 жыл бұрын

I try to stay away from stuff like that. As mentioned in reply to your other comments on my videos, I haven't seen anything that would cause me to be offended or leave HA at this time.