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Alarm panel card

The alarm panel card allows you to arm and disarm your alarm control panel integrationsIntegrations connect and integrate Home Assistant with your devices, services, and more. [Learn more].

Screenshot of the alarm panel card Screenshot of the alarm panel card.

To add the alarm panel card to your user interface:

  1. In the top right of the screen, select the edit button.
    • If this is your first time editing a dashboard, the Edit dashboard dialog appears.
      • By editing the dashboard, you are taking over control of this dashboard.
      • This means that it is no longer automatically updated when new dashboard elements become available.
      • Once you’ve taken control, you can’t get this specific dashboard back to update automatically. However, you can create a new default dashboard.
      • To continue, in the dialog, select the three dots menu, then select Take control.
  2. Add a card to your dashboard.

All options for this card can be configured via the user interface.

YAML configuration

The following YAML options are available when you use YAML mode or just prefer to use YAML in the code editor in the UI.

Configuration Variables

Looking for your configuration file?
type string Required

alarm-panel

entity string Required

Entity ID of alarm_control_panel domain.

name string (Optional)

Overwrites friendly name.

Default:

Current state of the alarm entity.

states list (Optional)

Controls which states to have available.

Default:

arm_home, arm_away

arm_home

Arm Home

arm_away

Arm Away

arm_night

Arm Night

arm_custom_bypass

Arm Custom Bypass

theme string (Optional)

Override the used theme for this card with any loaded theme. For more information about themes, see the frontend documentation.

Examples

Title example:

type: alarm-panel
name: House Alarm
entity: alarm_control_panel.alarm

Screenshot of the alarm panel card Screenshot of the alarm panel card.

Define the state list:

type: alarm-panel
name: House Alarm
entity: alarm_control_panel.alarm
states:
  - arm_home
  - arm_away
  - arm_night
  - armed_custom_bypass

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