Template Alarm control panel
The template
integrationIntegrations connect and integrate Home Assistant with your devices, services, and more. [Learn more] creates alarm control panels that combine integrations or adds preprocessing logic to actions.
There are several powerful ways to use this integrationIntegrations connect and integrate Home Assistant with your devices, services, and more. [Learn more], including grouping existing integrations into a simpler integrations, or adding logic that Home Assistant will execute when accessed.
For example, if you want to expose a true alarm panel to Google Home, Alexa, or HomeKit - but limit its ability to disarm when there’s no one home, you can do that using a template.
Another use case could be grouping a series of sensors and services together to represent various “armed” and “disarmed” states and actions.
This can simplify the GUI and make it easier to write automations.
In optimistic mode, the alarm control panel will immediately change state after every command. Otherwise, the alarm control panel will wait for state confirmation from the template. Try to enable it, if experiencing incorrect operation.
Configuration
To add the Template Alarm control panel helper to your Home Assistant instance, use this My button:
Manual configuration steps
If the above My button doesn’t work, you can also perform the following steps manually:
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Browse to your Home Assistant instance.
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At the top of the screen, select the tab: Helpers.
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In the bottom right corner, select the
Create helper button. -
From the list, select Template Alarm control panel.
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Follow the instructions on screen to complete the setup.
YAML Configuration
To enable a template alarm control panel in your installation, add the following to your configuration.yaml
The configuration.yaml file is the main configuration file for Home Assistant. It lists the integrations to be loaded and their specific configurations. In some cases, the configuration needs to be edited manually directly in the configuration.yaml file. Most integrations can be configured in the UI. [Learn more] file.
After changing the configuration.yaml
The configuration.yaml file is the main configuration file for Home Assistant. It lists the integrations to be loaded and their specific configurations. In some cases, the configuration needs to be edited manually directly in the configuration.yaml file. Most integrations can be configured in the UI. [Learn more] file, restart Home Assistant to apply the changes.
# Example configuration.yaml entry
alarm_control_panel:
- platform: template
panels:
safe_alarm_panel:
value_template: "{{ states('alarm_control_panel.real_alarm') }}"
arm_away:
action: alarm_control_panel.alarm_arm_away
target:
entity_id: alarm_control_panel.real_alarm
data:
code: !secret alarm_code
arm_home:
action: alarm_control_panel.alarm_arm_home
target:
entity_id: alarm_control_panel.real_alarm
data:
code: !secret alarm_code
disarm:
- condition: state
entity_id: device_tracker.paulus
state: "home"
- action: alarm_control_panel.alarm_disarm
target:
entity_id: alarm_control_panel.real_alarm
data:
code: !secret alarm_code
Configuration Variables
List of your panels.
The slug of the panel.
An ID that uniquely identifies this alarm control panel. Set this to a unique value to allow customization through the UI.
Defines a template to set the state of the alarm panel. Only the states armed_away
, armed_home
, armed_night
, armed_vacation
, arming
, disarmed
, pending
, triggered
and unavailable
are used.
Defines an action to run when the alarm is disarmed.
Defines an action to run when the alarm is armed to away mode.
Defines an action to run when the alarm is armed to home mode.
Defines an action to run when the alarm is armed to night mode.
Defines an action to run when the alarm is armed to vacation mode.
Defines an action to run when the alarm is armed to custom bypass mode.
Defines an action to run when the alarm is triggered.
Template and action variables
State-based template entities have the special template variable this
available in their templates and actions. The this
variable aids self-referencing of an entity’s state and attribute in templates and actions.
Considerations
If you are using the state of an integration that takes extra time to load, the template alarm control panel may get an unknown
state during startup. This results in error messages in your log file until that integration has completed loading. If you use is_state()
function in your template, you can avoid this situation.
For example, you would replace {{ states.switch.source.state == 'on' }}
with this equivalent that returns true
/false
and never gives an unknown result: {{ is_state('switch.source', 'on') }}