Catching alarm events

[dst17]

Hi,

I build my own solution above the z-way server to bring automation to my z-wave network.
I wrote a little module in HA that logs events and send them to a node.js server.

It works fine with metric events but I don't know how to catch alarm events. I have a Fibaro smoke detector and I'd like to know when it detects fire : how do I do that ?

I have an other question : I also have motion sensor and door sensors. Is there a way to arm them in order that they can send alarm events if the alarm is set ?

Thanks for reading this.

[PoltoS]

HA does not handle Alarms yet. Door Sensor is seen as binary switch, so this one is ok

[dst17]

Now that HA in version 2.0.1 handles Alarms, I can see in the UI some "Fibar Group Alarm General Purpose alarm 21-0-156-0" but it is always "on".

Is it a bug ? Am I missing something here ?

Thanks for your help.

[PoltoS]

No, it is not a bug. It's a feature

In fact, most of Z-Wave products are sending Alarm ON events, but never sends Alarm OFF events. All Fibaro are such. For this reason in the UI we make two devices: one for Alarm event and another to turn if OFF (disarm).

[Gorilla]

So, how do you arm the alarm?
I couldn't find any documentation on this.
I want my sensors to only react on movements when I "arm" them, and "disarm" them when I'm back home for example.

[PoltoS]

This is not arm/disarm. This is more like "reset to idle state" and then device will set alarm On on movement.

To use this arm/disarm you can involve any switch (even Dummy Device switch) and add it in logical rules.