Hi All, I’m sceptic about using Homey for a professional alarm system, but after witnessing that professional alarms are not that great as well I decided to replace my outdated Honeywell Galaxy alarm with a Homey based alarm. I already have my Homey, router, and WiFI on UPS. The Aeotec door/window…

Give a try to Aqara motion sensor (zigbee), Im surprised with its range, no false alarms and size (its half the Fibaro/Neo size). For Netamo, I dont have any, but it should work based on netatmo app comments.

Thanks, its the size that makes me worry a bit :slight_smile: My Galaxy sensors were huge compared to the fibaro, but they did work. How could they even make something work even smaller. But I only hear good responses for the Aqara and they are inexpensive. I’ll order one to test with, thanks. Can …

Unfortunately it seems the motion detection from Netatmo devices are not mapped to the alarm_motion capability, meaning Heimdall can’t use them. The capabilities in Homey are an abstraction layer between Homey and each unique device, when a device function is mapped to a capability everything in Ho…

[image] Cuflee: Can you set all LED’s off (if it has any)? There is no annoying LED for motion detection.

Thanks Danee, Athom Support is getting busy just by my requests. I’ve asked them to support this. Would it still be possible to get the motion detection from the Netamo within a separate flow and have that trigger the Heimdall alarm? As a work-around until they get this fixed someday?

Well, I bought a Netatmo Welcome today to experiment if that works well as a combined motion detector / camera. I do worry a bit that it works with comparing images, so if a car with headlights drives by and lights up the room I would get a false “motion detection”, but we’ll see. If it’s no good fo…

Lol, @DaneedeKruyff , Heimdall is excellent, with the events it is raising including the tags I can use the Google TTS app to have all my google home devices say where the intruder is. This is perfect! My Galaxy alarm went bleeping, but you had to go to the panel in order to see what triggered. Now…

Just got a reply from Athom support: “Unfortunately Homey does not support S2 Z-Wave security yet.” That explains why the Aeotec Sensor 7 was registered as unsecured. That is a bit sucky, cause now all of these sensors will be unsecured, but I do have some hope that Homey will implement this event…

Glad you like Heimdall, please leave a rating/review in the app store :grinning:

Home security with Homey (creating an Alarm)

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DaneedeKruyff September 23, 2019, 8:57am 42

If there is a flowcard that fires when a Netatmo detecs motion you could map it to a virtual motion sensor, see the Heimdall faq and the instructions

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