Hello everyone, I come with two ideas to make the alarm system much better. The first one is the ability for the user to create more alarm modes beyond the three that are currently available, as well as the ability to activate two at a time, e.g. “Away” and a new one created by the user, such as “Smoke Detector” or some other. The creation function would include an option whether it can be activated with others or whether it changes the current one to the new one after activating it. The second idea is related to the first and consists in the possibility of detecting in scenes what type of alarm is currently triggered because currently we can only set in scenes that IHost alarms, but we do not have the option of what mode currently triggered the alarm. Thanks to this option, we could create a scene that will work in a given alarm mode, e.g. it will turn off the fans so that they do not blow out the fire and disconnect the power supply in the house when smoke is detected by a given alarm mode.
That is a good idea. My old burglar alarm has “zones” so you can turn it on when you go to bed, if there is a dog in the living room etc. Because it is old I have to use zone B = bed and D = Dog
As regards the second point. It is because they have combined Triggers and Conditions. The same was (and may still be) the case in IFTTT. In Home Assistant, for example, there is a seperate condition section. I can see the wrgument for simplification but I prefer the Home Assistant implementation over the IFTTT one. I think they are just trying to keep things simple for us. I don’t think it would make much difference for them in terms of the code.
On the iHost I’m pretty sure you can do this if you have Node Red installed. Use the alarm status to set a variable with a change node. And then in a separate flow when the alarm is triggered, by a door sensor etc, check the status of the alarm variable you have set with a switch node.