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@unixorn Consensus opinion as of a couple years ago was the Ring v2 https://www.reddit.com/r/homeassistant/comments/11h5oe5/is_there_a_keypad_that_can_integrate_with_ha/
@dan that’s what I was looking at but figured I would ask the hive mind
@unixorn @homeassistant the Aqaras do the job well. For my use case, I swapped out the keypad for a tablet with a #homeassistant dashboard with an Alarmo panel, which also plays my doorbell video feed and does light switches.
For my use case, we rarely manually activate or deactivate the alarm. It's automatic, based on presence detection of our phones (more correctly, the presence of the HA companion app on those phones).
@dmakovec @unixorn Seconded on the Aqara sensors, they’re fine, especially if you have some zigbee bulbs to act as routers. Likewise we rarely arm/disarm the alarm manually but for presence-based ones I use actionable push notifications rather than letting it happen totally automatically. Some automations arm or disarm it without confirmation though, eg when we go to bed, or if I’ve just arrived home and the back door is opened. I also use a dashboard on my phone, and I have Sonoff NSPanels in a couple of rooms which work as alarm panels as well.
@brad @unixorn yep, agree with the actionable panels.
One other trick I learned - set up a couple of (dis-)arming codes, one manual, one automatic. If the alarm is armed by one of your automaticions, get it to use the "automatic" code. If armed by a user, use the "manual" code.
This way if one of you goes out on a dog walk and forgets your phone, and the other arms it manually, then set a condition on your disarm automation so that the phone you've left at home doesn't accidentally disarm the arm if it bleeps in and out of presence while you're away.