This app enables you to use your Homey as a surveillance system. [image] Supported languages :netherlands: Dutch :uk: English :de: German :fr: French :it: Italian :sweden: Swedish :norway: Norwegian :es: Spanish :denmark: Danish Links App Store: https://apps.athom.com/app/com.uc.heimdall Github: GitHub - daneedk/com.uc.heimdall: Heimdall for Homey · GitHub issues: Issues · daneedk/com.uc.heimdall · GitHub FAQ: Heimdall - Let Homey watch over your home - #2 by DaneedeKruyff Change log: Heimdall - Let Homey watch over your home - #3 by DaneedeKruyff Roadmap: Heimdall - Let Homey watch over your home - #4 by DaneedeKruyff If you want to support this app, please consider a donation [image] [ko-fi] Donations are very welcome, though they come with no guarantees, warranties, or preferential treatment (just think of it that you’re donating for the work already done, not the work to be done). How does it work? All detected motion and opened/closed doors/windows on the sensors you select will be seen by Heimdall. All these events will be logged and when Heimdall is in a Surveillance Mode the Alarm State will be activated. Instructions Select the devices to monitor on the settings page. Add a Surveillance Mode Switch. Add methods to control the Surveillance Mode. Add a flow with the desired actions when the alarm is triggered. Add a flow to cancel your alarm actions Add a flow to deactivate the alarm. Add an Alarm Button. After you’ve completed the instructions above and feel comfortable with Heimdall you’re ready for the Advanced Functions in Heimdall Select the devices to monitor on the settings page There are three possible Surveillance Modes these are: Disarmed , Armed and Partially Armed . Per sensor you can decide if it will be monitored while Armed , Partially Armed or in both modes. To give you the opportunity to leave the house after setting an Armed or Partially Armed mode or to Disarm when entering your house you can enable a Delay on the desired sensor. [image] :arrow_up: Instructions overview Add a Surveillance Mode Switch Go to the devices and click the plus icon to add a device and select Heimdall from the presented brands. [image] Choose the Mode device in the devices overview screen… [image] and click Install followed by clicking Next to finish the installation. :arrow_up: Instructions overview Add methods to control the Surveillance Mode There are several methods to change the Surveillance Mode , either by a flow and/or by using the Surveillance Mode Switch in the Homey app on your phone. If you have the Homekitty app installed you can even use the Homekit app on your iPhone or iPad to set the Surveillance Mode. If you want to use a keypad to set the Surveilance Mode you can, check out the Ring Security App. To change the Surveillance Mode from a flow you will have to use the Set Surveillance Mode card from the Surveillance Mode Switch as an action. [image] :arrow_up: Instructions overview Add a flow with the desired actions when the alarm is triggered To set the action Homey should take when the Alarm State is activated you need to make a flow with the The alarm is activated flow card as the trigger. That flow card has the Zone and Reason token which will show what sensor was the tripped and which zone it belongs in. [image] :arrow_up: Instructions overview Add a flow to cancel your alarm actions To cancel the actions Homey takes when the Alarm State is activated, so when you deactivate the Alarm State, you need to make a flow with the The alarm is deactivated flow card as trigger. So, if you enabled a siren in the previous flow, disable it in this flow. [image] :arrow_up: Instructions overview Add a flow to deactivate the alarm Deactivating the alarm can be done in either of two ways. The first is by using the Deactivate Alarm flow action card, the second by using the Alarm Button you can add from the app. [image] :arrow_up: Instructions overview Add an Alarm Off Button Go to the devices and click the plus icon to add a device and select Heimdall from the presented brands. [image] Choose the Alarm device in the devices overview screen… [image] and click Install followed by clicking Next to finish the installation. :arrow_up: Instructions overview Advanced functions Settings Delays Last Door functionality Pre Arming check Silent Code Log All Flow Cards Settings [image] The Arming Delay can be used for delaying the changing of the Surveillance Mode to give you time to leave the house when using for example an Alarm panel. You can select the delay when arming for each of the armed Surveillance Modes, see Delays for more information. The Alarm Delay can be used to give you time to set the Surveillance Mode to disarmed when entering the house. Both delays can be set to any value in the 0-300 seconds range. [image] For logging you can choose to always log any event from a sensor or only when a Surveillance Mode is active and you can decide to only log activating of sensors. The setting to also Listen to tampering reports from sensors will enable this for all sensors supporting this capability. [image] When the Surveillance Mode is set a Pre Arming Check is preformed, you can select what type of sensors should be checked during the Pre Arming Check. If you use an Arming Delay you can also decide to perform the Pre Arming Check when the Arming Delay starts instead of when the Surveillance Mode is actually set. See Pre Arming Check for more information. [image] Heimdall can write important events to your Timeline, you can select which events should be written to it. [image] And it supports speech output for certain actions. :arrow_up: Advanced functions overview Delays The Alarm Delay can be used to give you enough time to set the Surveillance Mode to Disarm after entering the house through a door that has a door sensor. When a sensor is tripped and the Surveillance Mode is in any of the Armed states the Alarm State will be set to activated immediately when no Delayed Trigger is configured on the triggered device. If the Delayed Trigger is configured on the triggered device a countdown will start for the duration of the Alarm Delay setting. If the Surveillance Mode is not set to Disarmed during the countdown on the end of it the Alarm State will be activated. When the countdown starts the trigger flow card The alarm delay is activated can be used to inform you the countdown has started. The card has three tags, Zone, Reason and Duration which you can use in for example a spoken or a push message. The trigger card The time until alarm changed is called every second during the countdown and the tag Seconds holds the number off seconds until the Alarm State is activated. [image] [image] When the option Use delay when enabling Armed mode or Use delay when enabling Partially Armed mode is checked the The arming delay is activated card will is activated. The card has one tag; Duration. During the countdown the The time until armed changed trigger flow card is called every second holding a tag Seconds which is again the seconds until the Surveillance Mode is activated. [image] [image] :arrow_up: Advanced functions overview Last Door Functionality The Last Door Functionality can be used to shorten the Arming Delay to 10 seconds after leaving the house. This function is automatically enabled on a Door Sensor that has the Delayed Trigger set to yes. To use it, just make sure the door is closed when the Surveillance Mode is set. When the Surveillance Mode is set the normal Arming Delay will start, after opening and closing a door which has the Delayed Trigger set the Arming Delay will be lowered to 10 seconds. :arrow_up: Advanced functions overview Pre Arming check When setting the Surveillance Mode to either Armed or Partially Armed Heimdall can do a Pre Arming check, you can choose what sensor types to include: [image] When using an Arming Delay the Pre-Arming check will be done when the actual Surveillance Mode is set, so when the delay countdown ends, you can let the Pre Arming check be performed before the Arming Delay by enabling the Perform check before Arming Delay setting. When a sensor is not in the desired state during the Pre Arming check the flowcard Sensor active at arming will be triggered with the token Warning containing the text “Warning, sensor active…” [image] and it will be logged to the history: [ewafnpxzlzhb] There is also the option to let Homey tell you when a sensor is active, see the possible speech options below. :arrow_up: Advanced functions overview Silent Code When using a 3rd party Keypad you can enter an extra digit after your PIN when disarming to be used in a flow. Use the A Silent Code was received flow card and a Homey Logic condition card to create a flow to start your desired action. [image] :arrow_up: Advanced functions overview Log If you do not want a device to activate an Alarm State but do want to log if for example motion is detected you can select the Log option for that device. [image] When a device with the Log option changes state the A logline was written flow card will be triggered. This card has the tags Zone, Device and State. [image] :arrow_up: Advanced functions overview All Flow Cards Triggers: when… [image] [image] [image] [image] Conditions: …and… [image] [image] [image] Actions: ..then [image] [image] [image] [image] [image] [image] :arrow_up: Advanced functions overview If you have any questions and or remarks please post them here.

Thanks again for the responses. My original set up is Partially armed = Arm Stay. This means we are home and probably sleeping. If any door or window alarm activates- lights turn on, and sirens sound immediately. Surveillance mode Armed = Armed Away. This allows for a delay when we come home and have time to disarm using our panel. The pool screen doors would not be on these modes. What are your thoughts based on this information? Thank you

I think your use case can be perfectly met with the option to dynamically adjust your Surveillance Modes, as mentioned before, please check the FAQ. There’s a question there about what you want with a short answer and a link to a post explaining how it works.

Thank you. I will re-read them.

Does anyone know if I can make Heimdall notify a 3rd party telephone? I would like, in case of movement in the house when away, that the notification also is sent to a 3rd party (a nightbour or friend) in case we’re unable to respond. Is it possible, and how?

No, that’s not possible. Option 1 You can add your neighbor or friend as a guest to Homey. The problem is that they are then able to control devices and start flows. However, as long as you are at home, you can deactivate the guest accounts. If you leave your home, the guest accounts must be activated. However, deactivation/activation can be automated via Flow. For more information please check the support article → Adding, managing & removing user accounts on Homey Option 2 There are apps available with which you can inform your neighbors and friends via WhatsApp, Signal, Telegram or Facebook Messenger. As I don’t use any of these apps myself, I can’t say anything more about them. [image] Option 3 You notify your neighbors/friends by email. As I don’t use this app myself, I can’t say anything more about it. [image] There may also be other options that I’m not aware of. Cheers!

Sorry, I was away for a few days. i just turned the delay function on. I’m going to test it this weekend.

Hi Jakob. Do you have any suggestions on how to set up this flow if there are two windows/doors open so that it works with the speaker? When I have one door open, it works for my Google speaker, but when there are two #warnings, it is silent. Notification to the timeline works with 2 warnings, but not saying it out in the speaker.

Hello. I would like to start a flow when a curtain person has enabled or disabled the alarm. I see that it is writen in the heimdall logging, but i can’t start there a flow with. Is it possible to include this feature in heimdall? Thanks.

This has been discussed before, as soon as Athom adds functionality that exposes which user performed a action on a device like selecting a status I will add such a flow card. So -please- raise this request at Athom!

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