alarmo-card

• alarmo-card
  • Introduction
  • Features
    • Countdown timer
    • Diagnostics messages
    • Arming options
    • Card customization
  • Installation
  • Updating
  • Configuration
  • Options
    • State configuration
  • Say thank you

Introduction

This is a Lovelace card for Home Assistant that can be used to control your Alarmo security system.

The card works on top of the alarmo custom component. You will need it this as well.

This card is only suitable for controlling entities (of type alarm_control_panel) which are generated by the Alarmo integration, you cannot use it with any other alarm integration in HA.

Preview:

Features

The alarmo-card is similar to the Lovelace alarm panel card, but brings some extra functions.

Countdown timer

A countdown timer is displayed when the alarm is in arming or pending state. The countdown timer will show the remaining time of the configured exit / entry delay. This gives you an indication of how much time you have left for leaving the house / disarming the alarm.

Diagnostics messages

The card will give you an indication in the following conditions:

• A wrong code (or no code) was entered.
• The alarm could not be armed (due to one or more sensors).
• The alarm was triggered (due to one or more sensors).

In the second and third case you will see a message in the card with the sensors that caused the issue. The state of these sensors is visible in the message, such that you have feedback in case the issue is resolved.

Arming options

When the alarm is disabled, an icon is shown in the top-right corner of the card. By clicking it a menu is revealed with the advanced arming options:

• Skip delay: setting this option will cause the exit delay to be skipped, so arming the alarm will be effective immediately. This is practical in case you want to arm the alarm after you already left the house.
• Bypass open sensors: this option forces the alarm to be armed. In case sensors are blocking the arming, they will be automatically bypassed (temporarily eliminated from the alarm).

The arming options are only applied on the next time you arm the alarm.

Card customization

The card allows the following customization options:

• Increasing the size of the buttons in the card.
• Choose which buttons for arming modes are visible.
• Change the texts visible on the arming mode buttons and the text visible when the alarm is in this state.
• Change the title of the alarm.

Installation

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HACS installation:

Note: Ensure you have a www folder created as in config/www or the installation will succeed but fails silently

1. Click the Orange + button bottom right and search for Alarmo Card
2. Click on "Install" under the new card that just popped up.

Note: Ensure to install https://github.com/nielsfaber/alarmo and add the integration in order for the card to work properly.

Manual installation

1. Download the latest release of alarmo-card.js here and place it into www/alarmo-card.

2. Use the GUI; Configuration -> Lovelace Dashboards -> Resources Tab to add /local/alarmo-card/alarmo-card.js?v=0, or add a reference to the card in the resources section of configuration.yaml:

resources:
  - url: /local/alarmo-card/alarmo-card.js?v=0
    type: module

Updating

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Updating via HACS: HACS should auto-remind you in the HACS tab when an update is available.

Updating manually:

Use git pull for manual installation updates.

Since most browsers will cache the Lovelace card code, you can force a refresh of the browser by editing the entry in the resources: section in ui-lovelace.yaml, by updating the version to ?v=(n+1) (where n the current value).

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Configuration

For setting up the card, you need to assign the correct entity to the card. All settings regarding delay times, arming modes, code settings are automatically detected.

Example YAML configuration:

type: 'custom:alarmo-card'
entity: alarm_control_panel.alarmo

Configuration using UI mode:

1. Go to the Lovelace page where you want to add the card
2. Click "Edit Dashboard" on the right (under the button with the 3 dots)

• Click the "Add card" button on the bottom
• Choose "Custom: Alarmo Card" and pick the correct entity.

Options

Name	Type	Requirement	Description	Default
type	string	Required	custom:alarmo-card
entity	string	Required	Alarm_control_panel entity
name	string	Optional	Displayed name (next to icon)	(Take from entity)
keep_keypad_visible	boolean	Optional	Keep the keypad always visible, also when no code input is required. Only useful if numerical code is used.	false
button_scale_actions	number	Optional	Scaling factor to apply to the size of the action buttons (between 1.0 and 2.5)	1.0
button_scale_keypad	number	Optional	Scaling factor to apply to the size of the keypad buttons (between 1.0 and 2.5)	1.0
use_clear_icon	boolean	Optional	Show icon (instead of text) in keypad for clearing code input. Only useful if numerical code is used.	false
show_messages	boolean	Optional	Show diagnostic messages in the card when alarm is triggered or cannot be armed.	true
show_ready_indicator	boolean	Optional	Adds ready/not ready indicators to the arm mode buttons.	true
show_bypassed_sensors	boolean	Optional	Show a warning message when the alarm is armed with bypassed sensors.	true
states	object	Optional	Customize the display of states in the card. See state configuration.

State configuration

State configuration allows users to modify the displayed texts and buttons (where applicable) in the card corresponding to certain states.

Note that the alarm entity may not support all armed_xxx states. States which are not supported will not show up in the card and cannot be configured.

Name	Type	Applicable states	Description	Default
hide	boolean	armed_away armed_home armed_night armed_vacation armed_custom_bypass	Hides the button corresponding to the state.	false
button_label	string	disarmed armed_away armed_home armed_night armed_vacation armed_custom_bypass	Overwrites the text on the button. Only useful if the button is not hidden.	(Use translation from HA)
state_label	string	disarmed triggered arming pending armed_away armed_home armed_night armed_vacation armed_custom_bypass	Overwrites the text displayed in the card when the alarm is in this state.	(Use translation from HA)

Example of using state configuration

The example below hides the armed_home button (although the alarm supports it), and renames the armed_away / disarmed options.

type: custom:alarmo-card
entity: alarm_control_panel.alarmo
states:
  armed_away:
    hide: false
    button_label: "Turn on"
    state_label: "Enabled"
  armed_home:
    hide: true
  disarmed:
    hide: false
    button_label: "Turn off"
    state_label: "Disabled"
# ... rest of card config

Result:

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