This tutorial shows how to create your own professional alarm system with Home Assistant. Last year I published a similar video that got outdated because of new functionalities in Home Assistant, so this is a brand new version! This easy-to-follow tutorial enables you to set up your own do-it-yourself alarm system within minutes! No need for buying an expensive alarm system anymore. Just use your existing smart home devices to create a professional DIY alarm system that responds just the way you want.
No programming skills are needed. Just follow this lesson and you are good to go! This tutorial also explains how to use and set up groups and automations in Home Assistant.

See the follow-up video on how to build your own NFC Tag reader to arm and disarm your alarm here:    • How To build a PERFECT NFC Tag Reader...  

❗If you use Alexa (Echo) as a speaker, you cannot play mp3s, but you can use the default alarm sounds of Alexa in the content ID field. For example: amzn_sfx_sirens_01

All the sounds for Alexa can be found here: https://developer.amazon.com/en-US/do...

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* You can download the code of the automations and audio file here: https://ko-fi.com/s/18b16359f9
* My Github page: https://github.com/smarthomejunkie/Ho...
* Enable Samba in Home Assistant:    • How to remote access your Home Assist...  
* Trigger IDs in Home Assistant:    • How to use Trigger IDs in Home Assist...  
* How to send a message to your phone:    • How to get Phone Push Notifications f...  
* Geofencing in Home Assistant:    • Mastering Geofencing in Home Assistan...  

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00:00 Introduction
02:07 Create the groups for our alarm system
04:14 Enable the alarm in integration in the configuration.yaml
07:32 Create the alarm panel on a dashboard
08:44 Create the automation to trigger the alarm
11:46 Create the automation to flash the lights
18:18 Create the automation to set off the siren
24:56 Create the automation that sends a message to the phone
27:08 Other useful and creative ideas

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