MQTT Alarm Control Panel

The mqtt alarm panel platform enables the possibility to control MQTT capable alarm panels. The Alarm icon will change state after receiving a new state from state_topic. If these messages are published with RETAIN flag, the MQTT alarm panel will receive an instant state update after subscription and will start with the correct state. Otherwise, the initial state will be unknown.

The integration will accept the following states from your Alarm Panel (in lower case):

disarmed
armed_home
armed_away
armed_night
pending
triggered

The integration can control your Alarm Panel by publishing to the command_topic when a user interacts with the Home Assistant frontend.

Configuration

To enable this platform, add the following lines to your configuration.yaml:

# Example configuration.yaml entry
alarm_control_panel:
  - platform: mqtt
    state_topic: "home/alarm"
    command_topic: "home/alarm/set"

Configuration Variables

name

(string)(Optional)

The name of the alarm.

Default value:

MQTT Alarm

unique_id

(string)(Optional)

An ID that uniquely identifies this alarm panel. If two alarm panels have the same unique ID, Home Assistant will raise an exception.

state_topic

(string)(Required)

The MQTT topic subscribed to receive state updates.

command_topic

(string)(Required)

The MQTT topic to publish commands to change the alarm state.

command_template

(string)(Optional)

The template used for the command payload. Available variables: action and code.

Default value:

action

value_template

(template)(Optional)

Defines a template to extract the value.

qos

(integer)(Optional)

The maximum QoS level of the state topic.

Default value:

payload_disarm

(string)(Optional)

The payload to disarm your Alarm Panel.

Default value:

DISARM

payload_arm_home

(string)(Optional)

The payload to set armed-home mode on your Alarm Panel.

Default value:

ARM_HOME

payload_arm_away

(string)(Optional)

The payload to set armed-away mode on your Alarm Panel.

Default value:

ARM_AWAY

payload_arm_night

(string)(Optional)

The payload to set armed-night mode on your Alarm Panel.

Default value:

ARM_NIGHT

code

(string)(Optional)

If defined, specifies a code to enable or disable the alarm in the frontend.

code_arm_required

(boolean)(Optional)

If true the code is required to arm the alarm. If false the code is not validated.

Default value:

true

code_disarm_required

(boolean)(Optional)

If true the code is required to disarm the alarm. If false the code is not validated.

Default value:

true

availability_topic

(string)(Optional)

The MQTT topic subscribed to receive availability (online/offline) updates.

payload_available

(string)(Optional)

The payload that represents the available state.

Default value:

online

payload_not_available

(string)(Optional)

The payload that represents the unavailable state.

Default value:

offline

json_attributes_topic

(string)(Optional)

The MQTT topic subscribed to receive a JSON dictionary payload and then set as sensor attributes. Usage example can be found in MQTT sensor documentation.

json_attributes_template

(template)(Optional)

Defines a template to extract the JSON dictionary from messages received on the json_attributes_topic. Usage example can be found in MQTT sensor documentation.

device

(map)(Optional)

Information about the device this alarm panel is a part of to tie it into the device registry. Only works through MQTT discovery and when unique_id is set.

identifiers

(list | string)(Optional)

A list of IDs that uniquely identify the device. For example a serial number.

connections

(list)(Optional)

A list of connections of the device to the outside world as a list of tuples [connection_type, connection_identifier]. For example the MAC address of a network interface: "connections": [["mac", "02:5b:26:a8:dc:12"]].

manufacturer

(string)(Optional)

The manufacturer of the device.

model

(string)(Optional)

The model of the device.

name

(string)(Optional)

The name of the device.

sw_version

(string)(Optional)

The firmware version of the device.