Alarmo

Alarmo on HACS is amazing. You can have various alarm modes, and it just uses what you already have (motion sensors, door sensors etc.) you can buy a keypad for it that interfaces over WiFi or zigbee. https://youtu.be/wBxYmLKimFY?si=dIHlcM5rEH0VZcPw

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For security, as others said, if you'd like a managed alarm, your local option will sufice. I chose to go with Alarmo, it's a HACS integration that takes a few functions already available in home assistant, and adds some others, in order to make it really easy to set up a comprehensive alarm system. My setup: RPI4 8GB, a Conbee II zigbee adaptor, with a .5m extension. (Would not recomend the conbee, as it has some issues with zigbee2mqtt) I've bought a sonoff P and a sonoff E so that I could later choose which to use, just haven't gotten around to changing it. If you are starting out and you …

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Just rolled my own via the Alarmo integration. Works great

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Clarified how to configuration both a UI based and configuration.yaml bridge configuration to support the pin in Homekit

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You’ll want to use the alarmo integration (hacs) I would go with zwave sensors. Both zooz and aeotec make great zwave sensors. And the batteries last long. If you need a keypad (not required though) You can use the ring (zwave) keypad. I use location data to arm/disarm the system. And I expose alarmo to HomeKit .

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Alarmo and the Ring Keypad V2 work reasonably well for us. Maybe 98% reliable, which is roughly in line with my overall experience with HA / Z-Wave / Zigbee.

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Some of the sensors I have (with brand name) 1. Motion sensors (Aqara, Hue) 2. Door sensors (Aqara) 3. Vibration sensors (Aqara) 4. Alarmo extension to manage alarms

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I’m using Tuya Zigbee smoke detectors. Hate on them all you want, but I was at work and had a friend staying with me who severely burnt lunch. They caught it right away, siren and a message to my phone via Alarmo. I rushed home (I only work 1.5 miles away) to find him still airing out the smoke.

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The problem I installed Alarmo integration and I sent this device to HomeKit with HASS Birdge. Alarmo appear in Security section in Home app in my iPhone, I can mount the alarm but when I try to disarming it not ending. I can't disarming my alarm from Home app. Thank you so much. ### What version of Home Assistant Core has the issue? core-2023.5.0 ### What was the last working version of Home Assistant Core? never test it before ### What type of installation are you running? Home Assistant OS ### Integration causing the issue HASS Bridge and Alarmo ### Link to integration documentation on our …

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Checklist - [X] I am using the latest version of Alarmo (latest version can be found here) - [X] I checked for similar existing requests (both open and closed) before posting. ### Alarmo Version v1.10.7 ### HA Version 2024.12 ### Bug description I created a separate HomeKit bridge for Alarmo in the configuration.yaml using your documentation, and at first I was not able to get it to work. I did some testing and codes of six and four digits both seem to work but neither worked with a leading zero. Not sure if this is a bug or a feature request, but I thought I would share it. ### Steps to …

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Checklist - [x] I am using the latest version of Alarmo (latest version can be found here) - [x] I checked for similar existing requests (both open and closed) before posting. ### Alarmo Version v1.10.16 ### HA Version 2026.4.2 ### Bug description I have integrated Alarmo into Homekit and I have an iPhone (Spanish language) to manage Alarmo. In the Home Application in the iPhone, I see the status of Alarmo. When the status is "disarmed" I see the status "Desactivaría". This is incorrect. If I press the button of the security System in the iPhone Home app, to set the status, I see all the …

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The problem Hello, If I only expose the domain "Alarm Control Panel" with the homekit integration, I got an error log entry (see below). I am currently using the custom integration Alarmo (https://github.com/nielsfaber/alarmo/) to simulate an alarm system. However, I have not exposed the alarmo entity in Homekit at all, only the domain. Therefore, I suggest that this is an issue in home assistant and not directly the custom integration. ### What version of Home Assistant Core has the issue? core-2021.12.1 ### What was the last working version of Home Assistant Core? _No response_ ### What …

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The problem Hello, If I only expose the domain "Alarm Control Panel" with the homekit integration, I got an error log entry (see below). I am currently using the custom integration Alarmo (https://github.com/nielsfaber/alarmo/) to simulate an alarm system. However, I have not exposed the alarmo entity in Homekit at all, only the domain. Therefore, I suggest that this is an issue in home assistant and not directly in the custom integration. I already noted that error with #61649. ### What version of Home Assistant Core has the issue? core-2022.2.9 ### What was the last working version of Home …

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