A simple alarm control panel for Home Assistant's manual_mqtt alarm. Designed to run on a Raspberry Pi using an Adafruit 3.5" PiTFT.
Video of the control panel in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Lei8n_aSJI
Instructions for building your own: https://www.hackster.io/colinodell/diy-alarm-control-panel-for-home-assistant-ac1813
Display mockup:
As of July 15, 2018 this project is no longer maintained. It should still (probably) work, but I am no longer providing support, fixing issues, or adding new features.
See this community thread to request or offer support: https://community.home-assistant.io/t/diy-touch-screen-alarm-control-panel/23168
If you'd like to use a more-polished alarm control panel, consider these fantastic alternatives by @thanksmister:
Thank you to everyone who supported this project!
- Raspberry Pi Zero Wireless (other modern Pis will likely work fine)
- Adafruit PiTFT 3.5" display
This project requires Python 2.7 with the following packages:
- paho-mqtt
- pygame
- python-dotenv
IMPORTANT: SDL 2.x and SDL 1.2.15-10 have some serious incompatibilities with touchscreen. You can force SDL 1.2 by running a script: https://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-pitft-28-inch-resistive-touchscreen-display-raspberry-pi/pitft-pygame-tips#ensure-you-are-running-sdl-1-dot-2
Copy .env.dist to .env and update the values accordingly.