Create Your OWN Alarm System (Alarmo + Home Assistant)
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- čas přidán 5. 07. 2024
- In todays video we are having a look at how to get a very basic smart alarm system up and running using Alarmo and Home Assistant. I scratch the surface of setting up Alarmo and also show some use cases.
Want to see a more in depth video? Let me know in the comments below 👇
This video should giver you the basics for building your own alarm system.
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0:00 - Intro
0:18 - Todays Video
0:49 - Tech I'm using
1:50 - Setup Alarmo and Alarmo Card
5:19 - Setup Alarmo Users + Codes
6:50 - Alarmo Sensors
10:05 - Alarmo Actions (NOTIFICATIONS + EVENTS)
14:36 - Alarmo Modes and Areas
16:15 - Creating an Interface for the Alarm
18:22 - Alarm States Demo
19:14 -Summary
19:40 - Outro
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I would definitely appreciate a deeper dive into Alarmo’s advanced features.
Anything in particular you would like to see? :)
@@MarkWattTech Something about how to link with MQTT would be great.
@@websterking7719 Can you explain how to do that please?
@@MarkWattTech show us how to set up that tablet for putting on the wall.
@@oakfig the tablet is a planned video :)
Just sorting my dashboards out
Thanks Mark! Always enjoy your videos. Busy setting up my own Alarmo system and would appreciate a more advanced video when you are able. Cheers!
This was amazing, I'm so glad I found your video. I got rid of my ADT system months ago in an effort to build my own with HA. I've tried doing it through YAML automations with no luck. Then I tried doing it with Node Red and trying to write Javascript. What a pain in the rump. Then up pops your video on Alarmo. This just made my life so much easier and less stressful. It does everything I wanted the alarm system to do and that I had been struggling with on my own. Fantastic video a real life saver! I wouldn't mind seeing some advanced deep dive info.
Nice to see a deeper dive into the advanced features!
The best thing I got from this video is Ctrl + F5 clears the browser cache!!!
Alt + F4 works great, too.
Interesting video. I am very interested in the further possibilities of Alamo. Would like a sequel
Didn't know this existed! Definitely will try it, thank you for the video
Thanks you for this video. Great solution to HA alarm.
Been using alarmo for a few months now, really like it. I have it auto arm when the last person in the house leaves and dis-arm when the first person arrives home. Works well.
Would you mind to share that automation ? I have tried myself I can get it working when we leave the house but when we arrive the alarm get triggered instead of getting disarmed ):
@@mercuryin1 I can't leave any links on you tube so will be very hard to try explaining it but i have all of my household members in my house have a phone and on the phone i have home assistant on them. I'm using location tracking so when the last person leaves the house alarmo is armed and when the first person arrives home i have it dis-arm the alarm. I'm using Numeric State trigger, and the entity is the name you gave for your home assistant zone, mine is HA. Then i set it to trigger when that goes above 0. The action is device then select alarmo as the device and disarm alarmo as the action. Also put in your disarm code below that and your done
Very interesting! Thanks for sharing
Thank you for this video, this helped me a lot, I am really thankful to you for all the videos you post for HA. I would love if you can do more advanced video on Alarmo when you get the time
Mark, love your videos! New to home assistant, and enjoy the details you provide to make my introduction to HA a lot less frustrating.
Glad the content has been helpful. Thanks for the feedback. I really appreciate it :)
Hey Mark. Great video. Yes please a deeper dive would be great!
Anything in particular you would like to see? :)
Nice once Mark - wish there had been this type of walk trough when I set mine up a couple of months ago!
Thanks for the link to the tablet mounts :-)
Thank you John!
An actual Tablet video coming soon :D
@@MarkWattTech Great stuff. I'll keep an eye out :-)
Honestly, great videos mate. And i never say that... ever. Every video i have watched of yours is well explained.
I appreciate that thank you.
that is amazing add on! and now what left is to make lots of DIY motion and window sensors and ... self made alarm ;) thanks
Excellent video! Please go deeper with alarmo!
Loved the tablet wall case!
Courtesy of the The3Droom.co.uk
Check them out! :)
@@MarkWattTech great to know, for sure will order one to myself, THANKS!!!
Great job
Thank you
I dont have the list off sensors, how can solve?
Nice Mark!
Great Alarmo
Great video. How do you add entities to the Sidebar?
That is cool. i want another type of alarm trigger. I have temperature sensors. And I know that if it gets hotter than 60 Celsius nothing good is happening and probably there is a fire. How i can add those conditions to alarmo?
How do you change icon when a door is open? Thanks!
How did you get the side list of sensors to show that way? Can you please point me in the right direction?
Thanks for the video! It did not take long to get this up and running.
How do you set up the alarm panel in the tablet to have it always online? Do you have to login into home assistant to have access to the panel?
This is what i needed! thank you! What is your favoruite indoor zigbee PIR?
I really like Aqaras new P1 Motion. For WiFi based ones I love the Shelly Motion and outdoor Zigbee the expensive but great Phillips hue.
Great video . I am very interested in the further possibilities of Alamo
Anything in particular you would like to see? :)
@@MarkWattTech Yes in case we don't have a siren how to use the google mini and the text to speach
Any way to notify by state of when door/window is opened or closed via a chime or sound on my Google assistants speakers?
I have SimpliSafe paid subscription service for alarm and door sensor. It is also on my HA dashboard, can Akron works with SimpliSafe sensors?
Yes please
Please make another video. I wanna take alarmo to the limit!
Hi I would need to learn a function that individually turns off any light that has been on for more than xx hours.
Love the idea. When I get enough sensors to make it work I'll definitely get this.
Wonder if insurance companies would accept it as an alarm system?
Deffo a very fun and useful project. It would be great if they did (although I don't think most will). Most alarm systems have to be certified or have a "pro" install. Running Home Assistant is acknowledged by Locket and gives you a discount which is cool :)
Thank you for the tutorial. How can I use a regular/analog reed switch as a sensor for alarmo?
If you can add it into HA you can add it as an alarmo sensor :)
Great video! I didn't know HA had a alarm addon. I do have a question though. I bought 2 Ring Glass Break sensors yesterday added them to Home Assistant. I tested them by enabling config parameter 11 (detection) and broke some bottles in my trash can. They worked as expected. Now I’m trying to incorporate them into Alarmo. I need to enable and disable parameter 11 on alarming and disalarming, but unfortunately the entity can not be found under the action tab. I did try to specify the action using yaml, but it didn’t take it, because it required the service tag instead of action. Your help will be gratefully appreciated.
I figured it out. Create the entity as a script and then call the script as an action.
Hello Mark
I really like you r videos and this one got me started with HA in my vacation house, where I'm building an alarm system based on Alarmo. I got HA up and running, I have my alarm sensors Door/Window from Aqara and Motion from Philips HUE all working in HA. I also got two older iPads configured as Alarm Panels. All running fine and and working as intended.
I'm now trying to add a Woox R7051 Indoor Siren to the setup, but I can't pick it under the list of Entity in the Action section. The Woox is connected to HA via Zigbee2MQTT and I can see to device and it's entities in HA.
Any idea what I need to look for?
Next step in the alarm setup is connecting Reolink PoE cameras and the Adonno Tagreader - both with the help of your videos as well 🙂
Keep up the super work you are doing.
Appreciate it thank you :)
For your alarm you may need to write your own zigbee trigger. Feel free to create a post over at my Discord or Facebook and I'll do my best to get back to you to help you get it working. Failing that one of the awesome community members can probably assist :D
Nice video as usual. Any suggestion for an external zigbee siren?
Thank you. Really appreciate it.
Not currently. But when I find one I will be sure to let you know!
Great video, enjoy your content! :)
Just want to add that it's perhaps a good idea to check that the contact sensors (specifically the doors) are closed when arming the alarm.
Not sure if this type of feature is supported by Alarmo though.
Thank you!
That feature is supported :) If you try and arm while sensors are open etc it will fail and give you a message. You can also choose to ignore this and bypass it.
@@MarkWattTech ahh, okay awesome!
Works great Mark! at least so far....... do you think that it is possible to switch the alarm on and off using a nfc tag reader?
It is yes :) the tag reader I covered in a recent video work great
Have my system built with the default ha, are you able to use custom mp3 files for alarmo tones? Currently have this In the HA alarm and works great!
yes the alarmo triggers (arm home, arm away, dis-arm) are all passed to HA so its easy to tell when any of these happen and play the mp3 of your choice
Thanks Mark. Great video. One question... I have a SimpliSafe alarm system with all SimpliSafe sensors (entry, motion, glass break, smoke/fire etc), including the base station and alarm pad. However, I no longer want to pay the £25 a month for the subscription. So, is it possible to add the SimpliSafe alarm pad to Alarmo, instead of the Alarmo card? Or, when I use the SimpliSafe alarm keypad, the Alarmo keypad automatically sets. Basically, I want to be able to use the alarm pad, but for it still to use the Alarmo setup. Thanks...
Hey Leon. Unfortunately I’ve not used any of simplisafes devices or services so I can’t say for sure sorry. If you can integrate them into HA then you can definitely use them to control Alarmo.
I don't see that you've done an advanced video yet. Let this serve as my vote for you to do one!! Thanks for another great project tutorial. ~Frank
Another one that's on the list and never got released. In the next HA update we are getting some brand new Alarm dialogs. This may be the perfect time to revisit this video :)
@@MarkWattTech Should I wait to get my Alarmo set up or will I be able to adopt the new features?
how did you configure the alarm? Is this an actual device? I want to setup my sonos speakers as the siren. I am new to HA so I am struggling. Great video!
for some reason my alarmo doesn't trigger when a door sensor (I also use the aqara) opens. Arming works fine, panel shows that system is armed but when I open a door or window nothing happens.
Is there any obvious thing I do wrong?
Great videos! I'll definitely be doing this and the post box one!
Do you have a video on your wall mounted tablet setup? Can you automate the screen on/off or which HA tab to show at a certain time?
Thanks Matt!
I never posted the wall panel video. I think I will reshoot it in the coming weeks.
You can automate the screen turning on and off yes :) the screen shows as a switch entity so you could use your own triggers or motion sensors to turn it on.
@@MarkWattTech great! Looking forward to it!
@@MarkWattTech I to would love to see a video on your panel setup
Yes please. I want to know how to set up a panel such as the one you have
How did you make the screen just show the alarmo with out showing the rest of the ha
Awesome video. Setup my Alarmo and really happy, now to hunt for some decent alarm sounds or jus record myself singing into a mic and that should be enough to scare anyone away 🙂
Update: Seems like I needed to restart the HomeAssistant App on the client devices for the custom panel to show,🙂
Looks nice shame to late for me as had a Tuya 433 alarm for a few years, use the sensors in HA for other things though
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
Heya :)
You can yes. You would need to have the file stored on HA and then you can call it using your smart speaker (Google, Sonos, ESP Speaker, other connected audio devices etc). You can use Amazon echoes too but there is a little more setup (Covered in my Amazon tutorials).
You essentially just create a routine that plays the media on whatever trigger you want. I have had a part 2 of this video planned but I just haven't gotten round to it.
how you create the dashboard to be just 2 cards and that alignment?
Hi! Thanks again! Please explain how you got the sensor sidebar panel? Did you just set up an 'Entities Card' for the sensors?
Heya :) yeah it’s just an entities list for all contact sensors :)
you can use filter card and select by type ( door, windows , etc)
Brilliant as always ! is there a way to lock the screen to the alarmo card when the alarm is armed ? (I have several pannels)
No but the pin code you can enable will prevent anyone from disarming the alarm without first entering it.
What kind of panel are you using? If your using Fully Kiosk you could call a script that sends all of the panels to your alarm dashboard :)
Hello, very nice vidéo, missing maybe présence détection and auto arming 😊
Plans for the more advanced video I think :)
10:45 no matter what i try i cant get it to send a notification when i trigger the alarm
seems weird because it works when i manually test the notification
did u do something special to get your siren into alarmo? i just connected my woox r7051 (same siren different brand) into z2m but it not showing up in the list. i just shows up as a device.
Heya. I think I did have to create a specific mqtt call for it. I will need to check my config. I’m away at the moment but give me a nudge (incase I forget).
Or head over to my Facebook or Discord and me and others can share some screenshots and help with the code.
Excellent video. Just wondering do you have a breakdown on adding alexa devices to HA to use as notifications and sirens.
HAHa, found your video on exactly that. Fantastic stuff
@@YTCraig 👌🏻😁
Do you have any info on that tablet wall mount? looks very nice.
There is a link in the video description to the wall mounts on eBay - www.ebay.co.uk/sch/Computers-Tablets-Networking/58058/m.html?_nkw&_armrs=1&_ipg&_from&_ssn=the_3d_room&_sac=1
I will be doing a dedicated video soon :D
Mark, Phone notification worked earlier. After update to Home Assistant OS 8.1, doesn't work any more. any idea please.
How do you make the alarm repeat? Mine is set but only plays 1x.
Wow great video. Please show us to to flash lights as well.
Maybe in the next one 😁
Yes, this would be a nice trick
If your using HA you can do this by doing a call service action then light turn on service then select which lights you want then at the bottom of the list there's an option to flash the lights either short flash or long flash.
Thank you
Hi Mark, I set some scripts on the Action in order to announce the status of the alarm (armed, disarmed). The armed script work fine but the disarmed script speak too softly whereas the set_volume is the same on the two script. The yaml configurations are the same just differents texts to speech. Any ideas on why that ?
Heya :) sorry for the delay. Did you manage to solve your issue?
@@MarkWattTech unfortunately no. I have change the set volume value in case of conflit with the same in several scripts but nothing change
Offtopic: Are u able to play local MP3 using alexa media player. It's not working as it used to anymore. Followed ur steps correctly. Can u please confirm?
Nice addon, seems to do all the same as what I have done myself with HA's custom alarm panel and node red but with more GUI and less YAML!
Would be good if you could add an SMS fallback for notifications should wifi get cut and also add Battery Backup should power get cut.... (Both with notifications saying no wifi / power).
if you have a UPS backup you can use the NUT integration in HA to tell you when power is down and the NUT internet server can tell you when it lost connection to your UPS.
@@HATipsByLarry that is exactly what I want to do… just want someone to tell me what to get for the UPS… ideally want 24hr power backup for pi to run (with NUT functionality) but also not cost an arm and a leg!
@@AlexBoltonKing The Pi's take very little power but i'm assuming you would want to backup your internet providers router as well and depending on which one you have they would pull more power then the pi for sure but how much? 🤷♂ I would get an APC UPS as they are well made. But which is up to you i have the 1500 VA one myself but i'm backing up my intel nuk (the computer i'm running HA on) my ISP's router and a NAS. We have underground power lines in my neighborhood and the power sub-station is close so we very rarely have power outages and when we do they are usually very short ones (less then a hour)
@@HATipsByLarry will be pi only as will add sms gateway to the pi as fallback. How long does your UPS last?
@@AlexBoltonKing its never been fully drained but i've only had it about a year and we've only had 1 power outage which lasted 10 min. or around that but i would guess around 2 hours would be my guess but my NAS pulls a lot of power for your pi alone i'd say it would last around 2 weeks as the pi pulls a very small amount of power
Thanks! Can you say just a little about the setup of the wall panel? Android? iOS? Any unusual settings to keep the HA app showing? Screen savers? Lessons learned?
I have some videos lined up for this :)
I will definitely say you pay for what you get. If personally still use this tablet setup with fully kiosk. It's been solid for me. There are a few sluggish amazon fire tablet issues but other than that it's good. If at the time I had some money I would have definitely opted for a more expensive samsung tablet and ran that with fully kiosk.
Fully kiosk is a simple app and has a great HA integration. You can display dashboard, websites etc etc and have the screen automatically turn on based on motion and turn off. IOS would be quicker but it's too restricted to allow some of the cooler device controls.
Again more on this soon :)
@@MarkWattTech this answer helped me a lot. I've been trying different kiosks and they are all VERY expensive but fully kiosk is very reasonable! A tip for you on a great cheap tablet: Lenovo tab p12. Less than half the cost of other tablets in its class. I've been testing it the last few days and it's fast. Love it!
Superb video, inormative, easy to understand and digest.
Is it possible to send a video clip of the event from a camera along with the notification?....with an option to access a video live feed?
It would be useful in determining whether activation was valid or a false alarm for example.
The first video of yours that I have watched.....I'm so impressed I've subbed!
Appreciate it thank you.
It is possible to do so yes. You can also have the feed automatically start (e.g someone at the door - have the tablet display the doorbell feed)
How did you add the "sensor status list" into the UI?
Heya :) it’s just an entities list of all contact sensors
This looks really good I'd appreciate a more detailed look
Anything in particular you would like to see? :)
how you align the cars to be so "in line"
Very good video, I was about to start my alarm system. Please dive into alarm because there aren't many extensive videos about it. BTW I use a Heimann zigbee alarm siren also very good. Have you found a good external zigbee siren? I cannot find something for home assistant that is outdoor.
I haven’t yet for outdoor. However I’ve been playing round with some ZWave stuff so I was going to see if I could get the Boundary one added as that thing is a monster 😂.
@@MarkWattTech is that zwave? I thought it uses different frequency and protocol. Maybe it can be integrated to alarm if boundary is compatible with HA?
I use a standard 12vdc outdoor siren horn mounted it outside ran the wires through the wall inside then conneted it to a 12vdc power suppy connected to a smart zigbee wall plug
@@HATipsByLarry It Can work like this, however i would like to have something with more access from home assistant as an entity, will be more flexible that way.
@@leosedf the smartplug is accessible via Home assistant and can be turned on and off in automations which is all thats really needed.
I do not have the alarmo card for Lovelace. can you say why it does not come out.i only have the standard card and one from mushroom
Did you add the Alarmo card via HACS frontend? :)
@@MarkWattTech thanks had missed it had to be installed for itself. It's found :)
Is it possible to have a siren through your smart speaker? I noticed you mention something about smart speakers but not in any detail. I can see the option to have some text to speech through them but i'm not quite sure how I could setup a loud siren through them. Maybe you can't...
You can yes. The easiest way is to have an mp3 accessible by HA. You can then play that directly on a connected HA media source. The media sources usually also let you specify and control volume.
This is really easy with speakers like Google nest and Sonos. Its a little more work with Amazon echoes but it’s also possible. I also have a video on Custom mp3s using echoes.
@@MarkWattTech thanks for getting back to me! I've had issues saving files through HA as I'm running it in docker on an Ubuntu machine... Hopefully accessing a file is a little easier
Got this working, thank you!
Can i arm and disarm from my yale doorlock?
How is the Yale lock connected? :)
If its in HA then more than likely yes.
I set it up but it doesn’t show on my tablet dashboard
Could we get a new Alarmo video? Maybe add a Ring keypad, more on modes and areas, advanced settings, scenes, and automations, general best practices and ideas?
Potentially :D Its been on my list for a looooong time.
Mark, the webstore for the alarm states.
Note* Siren must be plugged in all the time. The battery is for emergency backup only
Also I assume I don't need one of their hubs if already had a ZigBee network?
Correct for both :)
You can just add it to you Zigbee network.
I think i did mention the battery thing (or at least i did before the edit 😋. Ideally you would want any siren/warning device to have power for stability
Also have smart buttons at each of our doors leading outside so when one of us is leaving they push the button first and this runs a automation which changes the system from armed-home to disarm, then re-arms armed-home when the door is closed for 20 seconds.
I've been using the NSPanels to do this. Also have them show the alarm armed screen :)
@@MarkWattTech That would be nice but there 75 dollars each and i'd need 3 of them lol so buttons it is 😁
I've got a Fire 7 (£29 on Prime day/Black Friday) in the main entrance hallway doing this (running WallPanel). There's an automation that runs on entry (when the alarm is set) to navigate to the alarm panel and a voice announcement that there is 30 seconds before the defence grid is activated 😂
@@johnbeardon4475 WallPanel?
@@HATipsByLarry It's an alternative to the Fully Kiosk browser that a lot of people use. I find it to be more lightweight and offers the important bits of functionallity without a premium.
Also using Alarmo with mostly sonoff devices and sensors in home assistant.
In addition, I also have 6 Ezviz cameras that has building sirens and floodlights.
With the ezviz api I can activate these from home assistant in the event of a trigger.
And of course, when the sirens sound and their floodlights start flashing all my lights are also get turned on.
I believe the satan’s minions does not want to walk in the light. 😊
I also use ESPressence to automatically set the alarm as well as geofencing when moving away from home.
O yes, I have also connected an old perimeter beam to a sonoff mini switch and incorporated that in my alarm system. That would be the NO (normally open) connection.
All alarm notifications from activate to… is broadcast thorough the house and to our mobile phones.
That's really cool i use espresense as well but never thought to use it in the alarmo system as HA can tell when the last person leaves the house and when the first person arrives home. But it would be a good backup in case HA didn't detect the changes. Although that hasn't happened yet. But backups are nice to have. 😀
how do you get the dashboard to look like that?
Which part sorry? :)
@@MarkWattTech the dashboard displaying the keypad. It's got no side or top bar . Looks clean. How to achieve that look?
very good
Thank you :)
where can you get free siren mp3's?
Would rfid work?
For arming and disarming? :)
@@MarkWattTech Exactly
My Doorlock already works with rfid and it would be awesome to use the same tag to disarm my alarm !
a pincode just doesn't feel like something from this time anymore
Cool things you can do (already i have done) 1. Sound of a beep-beep-beep (load a mp3 to alexa via HA) while arming or its trigered before start the alarm... 2- Use a sound of siren to alexa when alarm triggered (another mp3 to alexa via HA)....3. and also, you can use callbot to call you via telegram when its triggered in alarm mode.
i do the same thing except with google assistant. Also have a dog barking and growling mp3 so if the smart door bell is pressed or someone knocks on the door (using a vibration sensor for that) when no one is home the sound is triggered on google assistant
Bro what is a call bot 🥹
@@HATipsByLarry have you got a link how to do this for google assistant ? still learning
@@takeover4726 Can't leave links on you tube but you need nabu casa account to get google assistant and/or alexa smart speakers to work with home assistant. There are ways to do it without a nabu casa account but it's not easy. Once you have a nabu casa account then you need a mp3 of a dog barking (got mine from amazon). Then you need to place the mp3 in the home assistant's media folder, then create a automation that triggers when your smart doorbell is pressed (i use the blink smart doorbell so have a alexa routine turn on a toggle helper in home assistant) i know this sounds complicated but it does work and there's not a lot of home automation platforms that can do this (can't think of any at the moment). Maybe Mark will create a how to video showing how its done 😀
alarmo doesnt work with new HA Update. Any Solution please?
What version are you using of Alarmo and also HA?
@@MarkWattTech HA 23.7.0 and Alarmo 1.9.10 Thank you sooo much
Any Ideas Please
@@Saun2020 I'm on the same version and Alarmo works just fine. I'd say start by looking at the logs :)
@@FeroMind for some reason it doesnt work for me. Its keep loading & loading but never load. I even delete and re install. But still the same
Great video, even if a bit long (probably most users getting this far know how to install something from hacs and its enough to tell what to look for), however i would be interested in how to disarm the alarm via alexa in a way that's is asking for a PIN that you need to tell her.
Thank you. This was aimed as more of a basics video. If I do a more advanced one that will assume you just know a lot of the “stuffs”. Good shout on the voice assistant integration though. Ill be sure to show that.
@@MarkWattTech can that even be done with alexa? I know there is a option to set a pin in the Home Assistant Cloud screen in HA for google assistant if you have a Nabu Casa Account, but haven't heard of anything like that for alexa
@@MarkWattTech I've never used hacs so thanks for going through all the steps
@@HATipsByLarry you can expose alarms and locks to Alexa yes :)
@@MarkWattTech Yes but i don't think alexa can pass a spoken pin code to HA (could be worng though). In HA, Home Assistant Cloud menu under the google assistant section there is a place you can enter a pin that can be used to get google assistant to ask for it. I believe you have to have a Nabu Casa Account for it to work though.
Nice! Is there any HA addon or integration that will send me a text message and call me on the phone with my sip provider?
It’s not something I use but yes it’s possible. You can use things like Twillio but they often have a subscription fee.
I do like this, but i wish i could add functionality to make my lights flash red and blue
You can setup a automation so when alarmo is triggered then do a repeat command (new in HA), set the number of times you want it to repeat the following actions, then action would be call service, Light: Turn On, then there's a option for what color the light should be (blue) and towards the bottom of the list there's a option to flash the lights either short or long flash.Then do a wait for time to pass (say 3 secs), then do another call service but set color for red I also have mine turn the brightness to 100%
@@HATipsByLarry I like this idea, so I have 4 lights and I can set light 1 to flash blue, 2 to flash red, 3 to flash blue and 4 to flash red. Is there a way to get them to continually flash? I understand I can just wait then run the service again. But I’d like to flash infinite! Or at least till I turn it off
@@jaygeorge9393 You could set the repeat loop to a very high number say 10000 it would not be infinite but it would be a VERY VERY long time before it quits unless you stopped it.
Mark, a little off topic here, but I ordered a Hoobs Pro last March. They kept giving excuses about why it had not shipped and how it would ship next week, next week, etc. I finally cancelled my order in September, but they have refused to refund my funds. This is a very questionable business if not a complete SCAM!
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just FYI, that "HACS" link in the description leads to an alexa video.
Thank you! Fixed now :)
Time for that in depth video? 🙂
It's up there on my ever growing list of things to do haha.
@@MarkWattTech been having a play with this all afternoon...the possibilitys are quite endless it seems 😅
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Very interesting. But you need to work on diction, it is very unpleasant to listen very monotonous speech((
Can anyone help me out? I can’t seem to use the siren as an entity. Im using zigbee2mqtt.
Same issue, bought the Ajax Siren Mark was using, have added it and can see the entities but can't get it to sound. Setting binary_sensor.siren_alarm to 'on' makes no difference. I know I'm missing something but don't know what... I can adjust the settings in the Zigbee2MQTT Exposes tab and get it to sound that way but that isn't much use.
Heya. I can share the automation I have if you want :)
Heya. I can share the automation I have if you want :)
@@MarkWattTech Thanks for coming back to us Mark. I managed to get it to work, eventually, after putting a lot of pieces of the jigsaw together and realising what was needed. I'm sure there is an easier way to do it, so if you don't mind sharing the code I'd appreciate it. The only way I am learning about HA is being doing a lot of reading and using other people's code as examples to work what is actually going on.
@@MarkWattTech could you please share your automation. I still can’t get this to work.