Panic Button with Paradox IP150(PAI Addon) in Home Assistant

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Hi All,

I have a paradox MG5050 alarm system integrated with Home Assistant via Paradox Alarm Interface addon.
Can anyone assist with how to create a panic button that can be triggered via HA?
 
rmupfumira said:
Hi All,

I have a paradox MG5050 alarm system integrated with Home Assistant via Paradox Alarm Interface addon.
Can anyone assist with how to create a panic button that can be triggered via HA?
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I am assuming you are using MQTT to send / receive commands and states?

The default integration pulls through all the PGMs as well
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I told my alarm guy when he was here for some other stuff that I wanted the panic PGM to actually trigger the panic alarm when triggered from HA. He put a relay on the PGM output. My alarm panel is in a slightly hard to reach place due to Wife Acceptance Issues, so getting in there and seeing what exactly he did is a bit tricky. I can take a photo if you need.

It works perfectly. I can now say "Alexa, Help!" or "Call the Police" or "Panic" and the alarm goes off instantly. Also have a panic button on my 2 wall mounted tablets that work nicely, plus now any of my Aqara door or motion sensors can set the alarm off if I so desire.
 
Mzezman said:
I am assuming you are using MQTT to send / receive commands and states?

The default integration pulls through all the PGMs as well
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Thanks I added this to my dashboard and I can see it does send the mqtt message but however nothing is sent to the Armed response but I guess thats more on the config of the alarm system itself so will follow up with them.
 
rmupfumira said:
Thanks I added this to my dashboard and I can see it does send the mqtt message but however nothing is sent to the Armed response but I guess thats more on the config of the alarm system itself so will follow up with them.
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So if you select any of those panic / burglary entities nothing happens? No siren? No call from armed response?

Reason i ask is i selected mine now and the armed response called immediately
 
Mzezman said:
So if you select any of those panic / burglary entities nothing happens? No siren? No call from armed response?

Reason i ask is i selected mine now and the armed response called immediately
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No nothing happens, I think the alarm system itself needs to be programmed to send those signals to them
 
DuncThePunk said:
I told my alarm guy when he was here for some other stuff that I wanted the panic PGM to actually trigger the panic alarm when triggered from HA. He put a relay on the PGM output. My alarm panel is in a slightly hard to reach place due to Wife Acceptance Issues, so getting in there and seeing what exactly he did is a bit tricky. I can take a photo if you need.

It works perfectly. I can now say "Alexa, Help!" or "Call the Police" or "Panic" and the alarm goes off instantly. Also have a panic button on my 2 wall mounted tablets that work nicely, plus now any of my Aqara door or motion sensors can set the alarm off if I so desire.
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Thanks I might end up going this route, what relay was added and which output is this? Maybe send images. Thanks
 
rmupfumira said:
Hi All,

I have a paradox MG5050 alarm system integrated with Home Assistant via Paradox Alarm Interface addon.
Can anyone assist with how to create a panic button that can be triggered via HA?
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Hi, how did you do this, can you please share the process?
 
Mikek007 said:
Hi, how did you do this, can you please share the process?
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You should have this entity displayed
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You should then be able to create a button / switch that triggers this - this will activate a silent panic alarm - mine is activated on double tap

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rmupfumira said:
No nothing happens, I think the alarm system itself needs to be programmed to send those signals to them
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Quite possibly. I know the PGM signals the burglar ANd panic of my radio but my other modules trigger the alarm. You should be able to set it as a wired panic though and configure that to tell the alarm panic and THAT will trigger the correct signal to your radio.

With IP50, use baby ware and see.
 
But what the person is wanting is basically a software panic. So as long as the software calls the radio PGM, it would work externally but it wouldn't register on the panel as a panic. Not sure if you can emulate the additiona of a wireless device as a remote panic? I have wireless panics in my house as well. Your remotes would be configured he same way but adding a wireless is easy, one just adds the serial. Not sure on emulation.
 
Kosmik said:
But what the person is wanting is basically a software panic. So as long as the software calls the radio PGM, it would work externally but it wouldn't register on the panel as a panic. Not sure if you can emulate the additiona of a wireless device as a remote panic? I have wireless panics in my house as well. Your remotes would be configured he same way but adding a wireless is easy, one just adds the serial. Not sure on emulation.
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If you can get a WIFI-controlled relay that can be integrated into HA and then hook it up to a physical zone, and then program the zone to be a panic zone, it could work.
 
deweyzeph said:
If you can get a WIFI-controlled relay that can be integrated into HA and then hook it up to a physical zone, and then program the zone to be a panic zone, it could work.
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yeah a simple sonof will wok but I think he's trying to do a emulation as one of the wireless devices which won't work.
 
I'm also looking to activate panic via HA. There must be a way to trigger a panic alarm via software without the need to add hardware?

Insite gold has a panic feature, and as said above, the Paradox panic buttons dont require any hardwiring or reals, etc.
 
I struggled with this for a long time as well. Here's what you can do to solve it:

Wire a free PGM (I use PGM3 on my EVO panel) to an available zone with a 1k resistor on the wire. The zone should be set to 24hr xxx (haven't tested beyond using those):

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Your PGM should be configured without an activation event:
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When you trigger the PGM via HA, it'll open the zone, which in turns triggers the alarm with whatever you set the zone type to, in my case, 24Hr Hold Up.

Just tested it again and it works fine. It's not really a panic, but more a way of just triggering the alarm via HA with one button. Unfortunately there isn't an option to trigger a panic state via the zone type.

Button in HA:
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Config (most of which can be ignored, I like fiddling with the look of things):
YAML: 
type: custom:mushroom-template-card
entity: switch.pgm_homeassistant_on
primary: >
  {% if is_state('switch.pgm_homeassistant_on', 'on') %} PANIC {% elif
  is_state('switch.pgm_homeassistant_on', 'off') %} PANIC {% endif %}
secondary: ''
icon: >
  {% if is_state('switch.pgm_homeassistant_on', 'on') %} mdi:alert {% elif
  is_state('switch.pgm_homeassistant_on', 'off') %} mdi:alert-outline {% endif
  %}
icon_color: >
  {% if is_state('switch.pgm_homeassistant_on', 'on') %} red {% elif
  is_state('switch.pgm_homeassistant_on', 'off') %} red {% endif %}
hold_action:
  action: none
double_tap_action:
  action: none
tap_action:
  action: toggle
fill_container: true
layout: vertical
card_mod:
  style: |
    ha-card {
    border-radius: 20px;
    min-height: 10px;
    padding-top: 3px !important;
    padding-bottom: 3px !important;
    {% if is_state('switch.pgm_homeassistant_on', 'on') %}
      animation: borderPulse 1s ease-out infinite;
    {% endif %}
    }
    @keyframes borderPulse {
      50% {
        box-shadow: 0 0 50px red;
      }
    }
    :host {
      --mush-icon-size: 30px;
      --mush-card-primary-font-size: 12px;
      --mush-icon-symbol-size: 1.2em
    }
 
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