HKC Alarm Integration for Home Assistant

Caution

This integration is only recommended for HKC users who have an alarm system with HKC's WiFi card, rather than users who are purely using GSM. GSM-only users will encounter rate limiting from HKC, so it isn't advisable to use unless you are certain you are WiFi + GSM.

Caution

This integration is provided as-is, with no warranty or support, and is not in any way associated nor endorsed by HKC. Users assume all risk in using this integration. HKC could, for all I know, block their users from using this or their app at any time. That said, many users have been successfully using this integration for almost a year now (as of Sept 2024).

This repository contains an unofficial Home Assistant integration for HKC Alarm systems, allowing you to control and monitor your HKC Alarm directly from Home Assistant.

Installation

You will need HACS installed in your Home Assistant server. Install the integration by installing this repository as a Custom Repository. Then, navigate to Integrations, Add an Integration and select HKC Alarm. You will then be asked to enter:

• Panel ID: Your HKC Alarm Panel ID (same as panel ID in HKC mobile app)
• Panel Password: Your HKC Alarm Panel Password (same as panel password from HKC mobile app)
• Alarm Code: Your HKC Alarm Code/PIN
• Update Interval (seconds): (Optional) Custom update interval for fetching data from HKC Alarm. Default is 60 seconds. Recommend keeping this at 60s, as this is similar to the Mobile App's polling interval, and we want to respect HKC's API.

Entities

The integration updates data every minute by default. It exposes the following entities:

• An alarm control panel entity representing the HKC Alarm system.
• Sensor entities for each input on the HKC Alarm system.

The State of the alarm control panel is either armed_home, armed_away, armed_night or disarmed. The sensor entities will have states Open or Closed based on the state of the corresponding input on the HKC Alarm system.

• armed_away maps to "Full Set"
• armed_home maps to "Partset A"
• armed_night maps to "Partset B"
• disarmed maps to, as you'd expect, "Disarmed"

Sample Automation to notify about alarm state changes

alias: HKC Alarm State Notifications
description: ""
trigger:
  - platform: state
    entity_id: alarm_control_panel.hkc_alarm_system
condition: []
action:
  - service: notify.notify
    data:
      title: 🚨 HKC Alarm Notification 🚨
      message: >
        Alarm System is now {{ states('alarm_control_panel.hkc_alarm_system') }}
mode: single

Troubleshooting

If you encounter issues with this integration, you can enable debug logging for this component by adding the following lines to your configuration.yaml file:

logger:
  logs:
    custom_components.hkc_alarm: debug

This will produce detailed debug logs which can help in diagnosing the problem.

Links

• Github Repository
• HKC Alarm PyPi Package