Home Assistant

Vanderbilt SPC

Home Assistant has support to integrate your Vanderbilt SPC alarm panel and any connected motion, door, smoke and technical sensors.

Integration with SPC is done through a third-party API gateway called SPC Web Gateway which must be installed and configured somewhere on your network.

There is currently support for the following device types within Home Assistant:

Home Assistant needs to know where to find the SPC Web Gateway API endpoints, to configure this add the following section to your configuration.yamlThe configuration.yaml file is the main configuration file for Home Assistant. It lists the integrations to be loaded and their specific configurations. In some cases, the configuration needs to be edited manually directly in the configuration.yaml file. Most integrations can be configured in the UI.[Learn more] file. After changing the configuration.yamlThe configuration.yaml file is the main configuration file for Home Assistant. It lists the integrations to be loaded and their specific configurations. In some cases, the configuration needs to be edited manually directly in the configuration.yaml file. Most integrations can be configured in the UI.[Learn more] file, restart Home Assistant to apply the changes. To view the changes, go to Settings > Devices & services > Entities.

# Example configuration.yaml entry
spc:
  api_url: API_URL
  ws_url: WS_URL

Configuration Variables

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api_url string Required

URL of the SPC Web Gateway command REST API, e.g., http://<ip>:8088.

ws_url string Required

URL of the SPC Web Gateway WebSocket, e.g., ws://<ip>:8088/ws/spc.

Alarm

The spc alarm control panel platform allows you to control your Vanderbilt SPC alarms.

The changed_by attribute enables one to be able to take different actions depending on who armed/disarmed the alarm in automation.

automation:
  - alias: "Alarm status changed"
    trigger:
      - platform: state
        entity_id: alarm_control_panel.alarm_1
    action:
      - service: notify.notify
        data:
          message: >
            Alarm changed from {{ trigger.from_state.state }}
            to {{ trigger.to_state.state }}
            by {{ trigger.to_state.attributes.changed_by }}

Binary sensor

The spc platform allows you to get data from your Vanderbilt SPC binary sensors from within Home Assistant.

Check the type/class list for a possible visualization of your zone. Currently motion, smoke, door and technical sensors are supported.

Hint: In SPC, Technical zones can be used to track (for example) the status of an output. Virtual zones are supported in SPC firmware from 3.11. You can set up a virtual zone as technical, and link it to a mapping key that is controlling an output.

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