---
title: Vanderbilt SPC
description: Instructions on how to setup Vanderbilt SPC devices within Home Assistant.
ha_category:
  - Alarm
  - Binary sensor
  - Hub
ha_release: 0.47
ha_iot_class: Local Push
ha_domain: spc
ha_platforms:
  - alarm_control_panel
  - binary_sensor
ha_integration_type: integration
related:
  - docs: /docs/configuration/
    title: Configuration file
ha_quality_scale: legacy
---

Home Assistant has support to integrate your [Vanderbilt SPC](https://www.spcsupportinfo.com/SPCConnectPro/) alarm panel and any connected motion, door, smoke and technical sensors.

Integration with SPC is done through a third-party API gateway called [SPC Web Gateway](https://www.lundix.se/smarta-losningar/) which must be installed and configured somewhere on your network.

There is currently support for the following device types within Home Assistant:

- [Alarm](#alarm)
- [Binary sensor](#binary-sensor)

Home Assistant needs to know where to find the SPC Web Gateway API endpoints, to configure this add the following section to your {% term "`configuration.yaml`" %} file.
{% include integrations/restart_ha_after_config_inclusion.md %}

```yaml
# Example configuration.yaml entry
spc:
  api_url: API_URL
  ws_url: WS_URL
```

{% configuration %}
api_url:
  description: URL of the SPC Web Gateway command REST API, e.g., `http://<ip>:8088`.
  required: true
  type: string
ws_url:
  description: URL of the SPC Web Gateway WebSocket, e.g., `ws://<ip>:8088/ws/spc`.
  required: true
  type: string
{% endconfiguration %}


## Alarm

The `spc` alarm control panel platform allows you to control your [Vanderbilt SPC](https://www.spcsupportinfo.com/SPCConnectPro/) alarms.

The `changed_by` attribute enables one to be able to take different actions depending on who armed/disarmed the alarm in [automation](/getting-started/automation/).

{% raw %}

```yaml
automation:
  - alias: "Alarm status changed"
    triggers:
      - trigger: state
        entity_id: alarm_control_panel.alarm_1
    actions:
      - action: notify.notify
        data:
          message: >
            Alarm changed from {{ trigger.from_state.state }}
            to {{ trigger.to_state.state }}
            by {{ trigger.to_state.attributes.changed_by }}
```

{% endraw %}

## Binary sensor

The `spc` platform allows you to get data from your [Vanderbilt SPC](https://www.spcsupportinfo.com/SPCConnectPro/) binary sensors from within Home Assistant.

Check the [type/class](/integrations/binary_sensor/) list for a possible visualization of your zone. Currently motion, smoke, door and technical sensors are supported.

Hint: In SPC, Technical zones can be used to track (for example) the status of an output. Virtual zones are supported in SPC firmware from 3.11. You can set up a virtual zone as technical, and link it to a mapping key that is controlling an output.