How to Build a Local Smart Home Alarm System!

This is the video I have been looking for! Excellent easy-to-follow presenting style. Many thanks.

Hi is the Develco keypad RFID reader exposed to home assistant so you can use it to read tags in home assistant

The IKEA Tradfri motion sensors are quite good and very inexpensive.

I’m using two of the Aqara for sensors on my garage doors, and I agree they work well. One thing to be aware of…they have temperature sensors built in, but I find they read a few degrees too warm.

Wish the “easy” mode didn’t require installing HACS. I tend to stick with the add-on store, so there are a number of things I’ve just skipped due to the HACS dependency.

Awesome video the ring keypad v2 is zwave and only $49 usd can you see if you can set that up and exclude if needed on home assistant

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!

a follow up on this wouuld indeed be great!

I just received a keypad like you have and added it using Zigbee2MQTT. But how do I add it to Alarmo?

I was so excited to set this up, only to discover that Alarmo isn't an option in the integration menu any longer. Has this been replaced with something? renamed? Or is there another option that you would recommend (or anyone reading this comment?)

I always like you video, and I have learnt so much from your videos. Thanks

How do you tell an IKEA Tradfri RGB lightbulb to turn red on alarm state? Or to go through some programmed cycle of on and off etc? It seems all HA offers in the UI is to power on or off a tradfri build in automations (while the lamps card in the dashboard allows color change, dimming etc).

Hi Lewis can u do a video how to link frient keypad with alarmo? Tnx 🙌🙏

Can this work if the power or wifi goes out?

hi lewis, great video as always. how have your develco devices held up please? would you still recommend all of them? or have you found an alternative you like better? should I hold off for matter support?

Your kitchen lights are an abomination.

Did you ever make a more in depth video for this?

My wife uses an iphone, I use an android. Will this system work for us both?

Hey Lewis,
Looking to set this up but it looks like the Develco stufff isn't an option anymore :( did they just stop shipping it?

Planning on getting the Develco / frient keypad. Can anyone confirm if this is compatible with ZHA?

Hi all,
I was not able to find out how to use the Keypad to arm or disarm the alarm. Anyone has a tuto

Great video! I have HA with Alarmo working with some door and motion sensor just fine. I think the week link with this alarm system is lack of useable actual alarms (sirens!). Seems link that is the actual reason to have it. I looked at your example develco siren... expensive and seems only available with UK plugs. Can you give any other examples of sirens that would work with HA ZHA Sonoff Zigbee dongle on Alarmo? The Blakaddr site has precious few. Thanks!

I’m thinking I could buy an actual Honeywell Vista or GE Interlogix security panel, (I’m not sure if these are thing in the UK as I live in America.) and have all the wired sensor inputs on the central panel instead be wireless Z-Wave relays, So when a door is opened or a motion sensor is triggered, the home assistant system could receive and repeat that signal and activate the corresponding Z-Wave relay on the central panel. Then I could possibly reverse engineer the keypad bus for the panel and create my own wireless keypad interface for the panel that I could program into home assistant. Essentially what I mean is to install a traditional security system, just retrofitted to be wireless and controlled with home assistant. This way monitoring companies can still hook up their communications equipment to my system since it’s a traditional panel their used to working with.

I’m thinking on purchasing the develco keypad. How easy was to integrate it with home assistant? And how to link it to alarmo?

I developed a custom board to transform old alarm system in a smart one

Great video👍, thanks. If I have HAOS on a dedicated NUC, where I can find Alarmo add-on as I only see video talking about HACS way to download it. Or It should be found only through HACS only?

Advice needed…not tech savvy at all. Want door, window & leak sensors and something that announces when doors/window opened or an alarm. Is there something you suggest that I could buy and set up quickly that’s reliable? I’ve been told to have a local set up rather than WiFi but that confuses me. Have you heard of yolink or should I purchase aqara devices? If I buy all devices from same company, I could just purchase their hub correct and that’s all I’d need?

Hey, im running ha on x86 pc. How can i use it as alarm, i have pc speakers plugged on the ha pc

Just make sure that the contact sensors is well hidden if not make a 2 sensors at the same time, theives are now getting smarter how to not trigger this stuff, after all its just a reed switch and a simple magnet can easily bypass this.

Thanks for this really helpful video. I've used it to get up and running on Alarmo, amazing! I have a Hive homeshield keypad that was recognised by ZHA in Home Assistant, how can I go about integrating it with Alarmo to input the arm and disarm pin codes, would be great to see a video on that!

Thanks for the video! I am actually struggling to get the siren running. It is correctly recognized in Zigbee2MQTT but when trying to publish (via zigbee2mqtt/xyz/set) it seems that the commands posted in the official Z2M Guide are not working. I cannot change length or volume through the set command. Any tips? Thanks in advance

I suggest to use a time pattern (i.e. every 1 minute) to trigger if alarmo is on or off, because I had a situation where I was home but my wifi signal is sometimes weak in one room. Then Alarmo gets activated because I was not connected to my wifi for some time. But here is the thing: If my phone re-connects with the wifi, Alarmo is still armed and won't change its armed status. But when I set a time pattern as a trigger, it checks i.e. every minute if I am home or not and than changes to the correct armed/disarmed state.

P.s. At least the 'from home' section should not be selected as trigger like in the video because then only the state changes when I was connected to the wifi and disconnect but not vice versa. Pretty good video though. Helped me a lot to get an insight.

Anyone find anywhere else to get the develco keypad? That safely site won't let me buy it on its own.

What is it called when a security system has an orgasm?

An alarm O.

Perfect, the last of my sensors just came in on the day that I stumbled upon this video.

Really looking forward to the keypad integration video. Thanks!

Plus one for the advanced stuff!
Love you videos :)

Is is possible to set / change the users alarm code with an automation / MQTT? Excellent video Lewis!

Loved it, lewis! Looking forward to the advanced video

This reply isn't a rebuttal to the message in your video, but my situation may apply to some of your viewers.

A traditional hard-wired purpose-built security system was installed in my home when it was built in 2011. As home automation matured, I decided I wanted to expose the security system to automation and ran into a roadblock. The original system couldn't do that so I replaced it with another purpose-built traditional security system that could. I now have automatic arm/disarm through the integration of my HA system and free location services on our smartphones. I can use time of day, or modes, to arm/disarm if I choose. I still have a rock-solid alarm system that is fully independent of my HA system so a bug-inducing software update to the HA system doesn't threaten home security monitoring. I don't have to worry about challenges and idiosyncrasies of wi-fi, or Zigbee/Z-Wave technologies. I get home security alerts on my smartphone and am my own monitoring service, and sadly that was tested a year ago when I received a fire alarm notification while away from home. Thankfully, that was a false alarm due to a power outage/surge that triggered the whole-home, wired, fire alarms to trigger. I called the local fire department, and they dispatched a truck. I unlocked the house, and they did a thorough check before I could arrive.

Great video. I have my arm / disarm with no PIN as I did not want a keypad. It is just a button on the app, which made it easier for the wife/kids. I also used your automation for arming the alarm as everyone always forgets. Please do the advanced video. P.s I was also your 1000 like on this video. Love your work ❤

I‘m shocked to see how much you guys pay for those devices in the UK..

Can you share the script for your lights? I have hue bulbs and light strips I’d like to get the to flash blue and red like you do at the beginning

Great video, lots of useful information! Now I think that having a smart home alarm is actually a must-have. I have small additional info cause I think that a great app for facility maintenance is SIM-ON, it’s worth knowing 😊

Fantastic to see this broken down into very approachable steps!

BTW, you may not know but the value of a zone entity is now the amount of people in the zone.
As such, it may be possible to simplify the auto-arming by using a trigger like the following:

```yaml
platform: numeric_state
entity_id: zone.home
below: 1
```


Keep up the fantastic work!

Great video. I’d like to see more about how to integrate a keyboard into the alarmo system. Thanks..

Would love a more advanced tutorial! I opted out of getting an alarm installed just recently because of the monthly expenses and everything running on their cloud.

Can I use nest cam motion detection?

Going to the link for the Develco Siren, I found that you can't actually buy a single item on the site.. They insist on giving you a customised package with the gateway and everything... Is there any where else that I can buy just the alarm? With an existing HA setup, there is no need to buy other stuff...

Another great video! Thanks!

thanks for the video! Are there any smart locks you'd recommend?