I've been a long time user of Hubitat, In fact since the begining. For some stupid reason I moved away from Hubitat and migrated to Home Assistant. That only lasted 1 year and now I'm back to Hubitat. In Home Assistant there was an APP called Alarmo. Worked pretty well and I'm looking for something like this for Hubitat so I can move my business away from Home Assistant as well. What are the recommendations?
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HSM, Hubitat Safety Monitor. It's a built in app you can load.
Ya I've been using that one for years. At my businesses, I as stated use Home Assistant with Alarmo. It worked great with the RING Keypad. SO when the employee came in, they could punch in their code to disarm the alarm. I'm just not happy with Home assistant anymore and want to move back to Hubitat.
The only thing better than either HA or Hubitat, is HA + Hubitat + HADB.
There are still just many integrations available for HA that are not available from the Hubitat community (yet, anyway). I would suggest you keep you HA instance and connect it to Hubitat, for fringe uses to bring in devices from HA to become Hubitat devices.
I'm sure many will tell you not to use a hub security option for actual security. There seem to be integrations available to integrate actual alarm systems to Hubitat, but that is nothing I have any experience with, unlike others here who I am sure will chime in.
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Can you tell us more about Alarmo?
Particularly in a commercial space.
You know your business better than anyone here, but if you have insurance, be sure that you’re meeting the requirements it expects (from an on-site security system) for whatever coverage you rely on.
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I second what @chrisbvt said. Keep your Home Assistant instance going and use the HADB (Home Assistant Device Bridge) from HPM to bring in those devices from integrations that aren't available yet in Hubitat. Or if you are like me the devices that for some reason doesn't play well with my zigbee mesh in Hubitat but just fine in Home Assistant. Those will happen regardless the communication protocol. It is truly the best of both worlds.
There is also some Z-wave keypads out there that I believe some members have been using in Hubitat to achieve arm and disarm of their HSM. Sorry I don't have experience with those either.
Just an idea. If you keep you HA instance and install HADB onto you Hubitat hub you could create a helper toggle in HA. Write a rule in HA when your current pad is used to arm your current method it turns on the helper toggle and when disarmed turn off your helper toggle. Bring the helper toggle into Hubitat via the HADB. Make your rule inside Hubitat when the toggle is on HSM is armed and when off HSM is disarmed. I know it sounds a little cumbersome but it really isn't that bad. That could be a short term solution if you really want to go the keypad directly into Hubitat route.
If you are worried about reliability HADB is extremely stable and reliable.
I agree completely and wholeheartedly recommend only linking Hubitat with a certified and approved purpose built security system that can continue to operate independently from Hubitat in the event that Hubitat “goes down” for whatever reason. Hubitat itself should not be (and IIRC the developers specifically warn against) utilized as a primary security system. JMHO.
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I actually found a way I can use the HSM to do what I want it to do. I'm going to try this when I get home, but I'm sure I can get it working. The only thing I'm working on now is if there is an intrusion, I want Google Home Mini to play an MP3. I have uploaded this file to the File manager so it's local. I just can't seem to get my Google Home Mini to play it. Any thought on that? As you can see I'm trying to test this>
Oh and somewhere before playing the mp3 do a
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