home-assistant.io/source/_integrations/ness_alarm.markdown

title	description	ha_category	ha_release	ha_iot_class	ha_codeowners	ha_domain	ha_platforms	ha_integration_type
Ness Alarm	Instructions on how to integrate a Ness D8x/D16x alarm system with Home Assistant.	Alarm Binary Sensor	0.85	Local Push	@nickw444	ness_alarm	alarm_control_panel binary_sensor	integration

The ness_alarm integration will allow Home Assistant users who own a Ness D8x/D16x alarm system to leverage their alarm system and its sensors to provide Home Assistant with information about their homes. Connectivity between Home Assistant and the alarm is accomplished through a IP232 module that must be connected to the alarm.

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

• Binary Sensor: Reports on zone statuses
• Alarm Control Panel: Reports on alarm status, and can be used to arm/disarm the system

The module communicates via the Ness D8x/D16x ASCII protocol.

Configuration

A ness_alarm section must be present in the configuration.yaml file and contain the following options as required:

# Example configuration.yaml entry
ness_alarm:
  host: alarm.local
  port: 2401
  zones:
    - name: Garage
      id: 1
    - name: Storeroom
      id: 2
    - name: Kitchen
      id: 3
    - name: Front Entrance
      id: 4
    - name: Front Door
      id: 5
      type: door

{% configuration %} host: description: The hostname of the IP232 module on your home network. required: true type: string port: description: The port on which the IP232 module listens for clients. required: true type: integer scan_interval: description: "Time interval between updates. Supported formats: scan_interval: 'HH:MM:SS', scan_interval: 'HH:MM' and Time period dictionary (see example below)." required: false default: "00:01:00" type: time infer_arming_state: description: Infer the disarmed arming state only via system status events. This works around a bug with some panels (<v5.8) which emit update.status = [] when they are armed. required: false default: false type: boolean zones: description: List of zones to add required: false type: list keys: zone_id: description: ID of the zone on the alarm system (i.e Zone 1 -> Zone 16). required: true type: integer name: description: Name of the zone. required: true type: string type: description: The zone type. Can be any binary_sensor device class. required: false default: motion type: string {% endconfiguration %}

Time period dictionary example

scan_interval:
  # At least one of these must be specified:
  days: 0
  hours: 0
  minutes: 0
  seconds: 10
  milliseconds: 0

Services

Service aux

Trigger an aux output. This requires PCB version 7.8 or higher.

Service data attribute	Optional	Description
output_id	No	The aux output you wish to change. A number from 1-4.
state	Yes	The On/Off State, represented as true/false. Default is true. If P14xE 8E is enabled then a value of true will pulse output x for the time specified in P14(x+4)E.

Service panic

Trigger a panic

Service data attribute	Optional	Description
code	No	The user code to use to trigger the panic.