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About

ideAlarm is written in Jython and runs on openHAB 2.

The name ideAlarm comes from merging the two words ideal and alarm.

Your home is your castle. Keeping it safe and secure is a top priority of many homeowners. With ideAlarm, you can easily set up your own DIY Home Security System using the sensors that you already use in openHAB.

Reliability

A dedicated home security system might provide higher reliability than what you achive by a DIY system. It depends how you set things up. With that said, in case don't already own a dedicated home security system but you still want to take advantage of the capabilities of your home automation system together with all its sensors you might want to use it to set up your own DIY home alarm system. Please make sure that you've read and understood the disclaimer

Helps you to maintain safety also when unarmed

ideAlarm has an optional feature that you can use to alert you about doors, windows etc that you have forgotten to close. We call this feature nagging

Alarm Zones

Your ideAlarm system will have one or more [zones]. Zones might be areas located at different places. You might also want to use place certain kind of detectors in a separate zone (like water leak detectors) and always keep that zone armed. If an alert occurs the system informs you which zone is alerting and what sensor has been triggered.

Highly customizable

ideAlarm has a number of predefined events that will trigger your custom event helpers. These will not be overwritten when upgrading. That way you can choose whatever shall happen on those events.

Alarm Zone State

Each Alarm Zone has an Item that holds one of the following states: 'Normal', 'Arming', 'Alert', 'Error', 'Tripped' or 'Timed out'

Alarm Zone Arming Mode

Each Alarm Zone has an Item that holds one of the following arming modes: 'Disarmed', 'Armed Home', or 'Armed Away'

A sensor can be enabled or disabled

For your convenience you can easily enable or disable a sensor in the configuration file. If you wish you can also declare a function for a specific sensor in the configuration file that allows the sensor to be automatically enabled for example only when it's dark or depending on the state of other openHAB Items. If you have implemented presence detection in your system, you could for example disable a specific sensor when you are at home.