I loved developing this for the community. It had always been my hope that my plugin would no longer be required either through official support, community support, or through a replacement. @XaF https://github.com/XaF/qolsysgw has done the latter and built a better solution for the Qolsys panels. I highly recommend you use qolsysgw going forward. It is more stable and reliable than ad-qolsys. Thank you for your support!

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AppDaemon app for Qolsys IQ Panel 2 for Home Assistant. Only tested using the HA add-on AppDaemon. Inspired by https://community.home-assistant.io/t/qolsys-iq-panel-2-and-3rd-party-integration

Fully self-contained AppDaemon app. If you have HA MQTT Discovery turned on, you should end up with binary sensors for each Door_Window zone on the Qolsys panel. There are more zone types which I don’t own so I have not handled them in anyway.

You’ll also have an alarm_control_panel for each partition. If you use the alarm panel component in HA, you don't have to worry about sending commands to the panel. It'll all be auto-magiced with MQTT discovery.

Utilizes the MQTT plugin's will_topic to detect if AppDaemon is offline. In order for this to work, MQTT plugin's will_topic and birth_topic must be the same. If they are not the same, AppDaemon's availability will be ignored and the alarm_control_panel and any binary_sensor's statuses can be out of sync with reality during/after restarts.

Arguments in apps.yaml:

mqtt_namespace: (optional) namespace for mqtt defined in appdaemon.yaml; defaults to ""
qolsys_host: (Required) IP address or hostname for the qolsys panel
qolsys_port: (Optional) Port on the qolsys panel to connect to; will default to 12345
qolsys_token: (Required) Token from the qolsys panel
request_topic: (Optional) The topic to listen to send commands to the qolsys panel; defaults to qolsys/requests
qolsys_timeout: (Optional) The timeout (in seconds) to wait for any activity to/from the qolsys panel before disconnecting; defaults to 86400
qolsys_info_topic: (Optional) The topic to publish qolsys INFO events to; defaults to qolsys/info
qolsys_zone_event_topic: (Optional) The topic to publish ZONE_EVENT events to; defaults to qolsys/zone_event
qolsys_alarming_event_topic: (Optional) The topic to publish ARMING events to; defaults to qolsys/arming
qolsys_disarming_event_topic: (Optional) The topic to publish DISARMING events to; defaults to qolsys/disarming
qolsys_confirm_disarm_code: True/False (Optional) Require the code for disarming; defaults to False
qolsys_confirm_arm_code: True/False (Optional) Require the code for arming; defaults to False
qolsys_disarm_code: (Required - if you want to disarm the alarm)
qolsys_arm_away_always_instant: True/False (Optional) Set to true if all Arm Away commands should be instant; defaults to False
homeassistant_mqtt_discovery_topic: homeassistant/ (Optional) The topic Home Assistant is using for MQTT Discovery (homeassistant/ is the default in HA and here)
mqtt_state_topic: mqtt-states (Optional) The topic to publish state updates to for the alarm_control_panel and binary_sensor (default: mqtt-states)
mqtt_availability_topic: mqtt-availability (Optional) The topic to publish availability events to for the alarm_control_panel and binary_sensor (default: mqtt-availability)
qolsys_alarm_triggered_topic: (Optional) The topic to publish triggered events to; defaults to qolsys/alarm/triggered
qolsys_alarm_pending_topic:  (Optional) The topic to publish pending events to; defaults to qolsys/alarm/pending

You’ll need you appdaemon's apps.yaml to include an app with this module and class:

qolsys_panel:
  module: qolsys_client
  class: QolsysClient
  mqtt_namespace: mqtt <see below for my config>
  qolsys_host: <your IP here>
  qolsys_token: <your token here>
  qolsys_port: 12345 # Optional
  request_topic: qolsys/requests # Optional
  qolsys_info_topic: qolsys/panel/info # Optional
  qolsys_zone_update_topic: qolsys/panel/zone_update # Optional
  qolsys_zone_event_topic: qolsys/panel/zone_event # Optional
  qolsys_alarming_event_topic: qolsys/panel/alarming # Optional
  qolsys_disarming_event_topic: qolsys/panel/disarm # Optional
  qolsys_disarm_code: 4567 # Optional - Required if you want to disarm the panel
  qolsys_confirm_arm_code: False # Optional
  qolsys_confirm_disarm_code: False # Optional
  qolsys_arm_away_always_instant: False # Optional

As far MQTT is concerned, I had to figure out how to enable MQTT inside AppDaemon. In case you’re new to AppDaemon and have the same questions, I had to put this in my appdaemon.yaml:

appdaemon:
  latitude: # existing
  longitude: # existing
  elevation: # existing
  time_zone: # your timezone America/Los_Angeles
  # HASS plugin is enabled by default if you're using the add-on
  plugins:
    HASS:
      type: hass
      namespace: default
    # I added on the MQTT plugin
    MQTT:
      type: mqtt
      namespace: mqtt #you will need this namespace name in your apps.yaml
      # The IP Address or hostname of your MQTT broker.  
      client_host: 192.168.x.y
      client_port: 1883

I’m by no means an MQTT or AppDaemon expert, so feel free to peruse the documentation for any MQTT configuration help you need https://appdaemon.readthedocs.io/en/latest/MQTT_API_REFERENCE.html

You can send commands to the Qolsys panel on the request_topic in the config (or qolsys/requests if not specified). There are four commands:

# Request the INFO to be published
{"event":"INFO", "token":"blah"}

# Arm stay:
{"event":"ARM", "arm_type":"stay", "partition_id": 0, "token":"blah"}

# Arm away
{"event":"ARM", "arm_type":"away", "partition_id": 0, "token":"blah"}

# (Variant) Arm away - Instant
{"event":"ARM", "arm_type":"away", "partition_id": 0, "token":"blah", "instant": true}

# Disarm
{"event":"DISARM", "usercode":0000, "token":"blah"}

Known issues:

• When the app reloads, sometimes it doesn’t reconnect to the socket and it just hangs the entire app. The only way I’ve been able to recover is to restart AppDaemon. If anyone has a way to detect and fix this, let me know or issue a pull request.

I hope this works for everyone! Hit me up with feedback

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