# Home security with Homey (creating an Alarm) **URL:** \ **Category:** Questions & Help\ **Created:** [September 18, 2019, 1:08pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/home-security-with-homey-creating-an-alarm/18264 "2019-09-18T13:08:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 52
**Author:** ![Rickp](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/rickp/32/9466_2.png) [@Rickp](https://community.homey.app/u/Rickp)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2019, 4:49pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/home-security-with-homey-creating-an-alarm/18264/52 "2019-09-25T16:49:27Z")
> Found a Homey issue yesterday when the internet provider had a big outage. I removed most of my switches and use voice control with google mini’s. But…, no internet, no google mini. What I did not know is that you also can’t start the Homey app locally. I thought being on the same LAN the app and homey should be able to connect, but they can’t. Homey does still seem to work, but need to be aware that in a alarm situation with Internet down I can’t use the app so need a keyfob or switch to disarm the alarm as well. Please do file another ticket for this since it’s still a bad issue. Ahtom confirmed this on 2 September. > [@Is there still no local access? (V2)](https://community.homey.app/t/is-there-still-no-local-access-v2/8778/51): > > Forgot to add the mail from September second. Athom confirming that local access is not working without active internet connection. Ik heb je probleem met Development besproken, en er lijkt inderdaad een issue te zitten in het valideren van de inloggegevens als Homey offline is. Dit werkt ongeveer als volgt: Homey en je smartphone app krijgen als ze met het internet verbonden zijn een token van de server, waarmee je kunt inloggen zonder je inloggegevens te hoeven valideren. Als Homey de toeg… --- _[View the full topic](https://community.homey.app/t/home-security-with-homey-creating-an-alarm/18264)._