Homey as Alarm, any suggestions/experiences

MarcelTimmermans

Hi,

During the years I have Homey, I collected a lot of sensors and now I have on every window/door a alarm contact. Now the question is I would like to to test Homey as an Alarm because I am not sure if it is reliable as an Alarm.

I end up with a homey script that check if there is any open contact:

let devices = await Homey.devices.getDevices();

return _.some(devices, device => {

if(device.class != 'sensor') return false;

if(!device.state.alarm_contact) return false;

console.log(device.name);

return true;

});

 and connected to a flow that checks every 10 seconds.

The problem of this is:
* max delay of 10 seconds (of course I could run it every second, but I am not sure if homey can handle this)
* I prefer to have it event driven
* would like to know which alarm contact triggert

So I am wondering, can any one from you share his/her thoughts and experiences?

DaneeDeKruyff

There’s an app for that: https://forum.athom.com/discussion/4514/app-heimdall-let-homey-watch-over-your-home/p1

https://apps.athom.com/app/com.uc.heimdall

MarcelTimmermans

Ah, nice. I didn't looked very well I guess.

Homey_Lampje

Homey as an alarm system... still very bad choice imho given the reliability of ie Zigbee, KlikAanKlikUit etc...

DaneeDeKruyff

I agree on the klikaanklikuit part, but my Aeotec motion and door sensors and Xiaomi motion sensors are rocksolid and never failed me.

If you would have mentioned it has no backup power and alernative for wifi when that is down you would have made a better point.

Homey_Lampje

My guess is you must be one of the lucky few who has a stable Zigbee network with Homey. When it comes to security Homey is still a bad choice imho and for more than the reason I (reliability) and you (backup power)  mention... Well Marcel should just try the app and see if it works for him.