Jablotron 100 Home Assistant Integration

Nov 2, 2020

Jablotron 100 integration for Home Assistant

Home Assistant

Home Assistant (HA) is an open source home automation platform in the same category as Domoticz and openHAB. Home Assistant is the home automation platform of choice for our home. Within Home Assistant, I have integrations with the Philips Hue, IKEA Tradfri and the Xiaomi platform with a ConBee II zigbee stick. Further integrations consist of the Hydrawise platform for irrigation, Gardena for the robot mower, Roomba for the robot vacuum and many more. I wanted to integrate my alarm system within the same home automation network, but this was not possible with my older alarm, a Jablotron profi. Therefore I upgraded to the Jablotron 100 system. An installation performed by Credex Alarm Systems.

Although the Jablotron 100 alarm system has the possibility to act as a home automation itself, by means of the Jablotron Smart Hub, I did not want to be dependent of the integrations that Jablotron enables on its SmartHub. The Home Assistant platform has a huge number of native integrations and a large community with additional integrations for so much more connected devices. Most of the community integrations are delivered through the Home Assistant Community Store (HACS).

Prerequisites

Install Home Assistant

In order to integrate the Jablotron 100 system with Home Assistant you will need to have a working Home Assistant installation. Home Assistant provides images for several hardware platforms. The Raspberry Pi is the main platform of choice, but also virtual appliances are supported with images VMDK, VHDX, VDI. QCOW2 and OVA formats. Finally, there are docker images for QNAP and Synology as well as a native package for Synology.

I have chosen to run Home Assistant on a Raspberry Pi 4 Model B with 4Gb of memory. This is more than enough to run a stable and quick Home Assistant platform.

Installation instructions for Home Assistant can be found here: https://www.home-assistant.io/getting-started

Install HACS

The Jablotron 100 integration used to be a custom component for Home Assistant that needed to be installed manually. Recently (2020) the integration was incorporated as a HACS integration which makes installation easy. In order to be able to install the integration you will need to install HACS. The installation instructions can be found here: https://hacs.xyz/docs/setup

Setup Areas in Home Assistant (optional)

When installing the Jablotron integration you will be able to assign all devices to an area. This is not mandatory, but it helps categorizing your entities in Home Assistant later on. In order to create areas, perform the following tasks:

HA > Configuration>Areas
Click the “+” in the bottom right corner
Name your area and hit “Create”

Area

Repeat for all your areas

Install Terminal & SSH add-on

You will need to ssh into the Home Assistant server later on. To be able to ssh into the server install the “Terminal & SSH add-on:

HA>Supervisor>Add-on Store
Look for the “Terminal & SSH” add-on and click it.

Terminal & SSH

Hit the “install” button
Go to > Configure
- You can choose to configure ssh with an ssh-key or a password. There are several Youtube videos with instructions to set up ssh-keys.
Go to > Info and press “START”

Start

Connect Jablotron Control Panel to Raspberry Pi

Now you are ready to physically connect your Jablotron 100 system to Home Assistant. In order to do so, you will need an USB A to USB B cable. Many people have such a cable lying around from when we connected printers physically to our computers. Connect the USB A side to the Raspberry Pi and the USB B side to the Control Panel of the Jablotron 100 system.

Now restart Home Assistant, in order for Home Assistant to initialize the USB port.

When installing the integration, we will need to know which usb port the Jablotron Control Panel is connected to. In order to find this out:

Open “Terminal” which was installed by the “Terminal & SSH” add-on
Type “dmesg | grep usb” and hit enter
Type “dmesg | grep hid” and hit enter
You should see a message like this return, stating the usb port. In this case “hidraw0”

Start

Make a note of the name of the usb port.

Install Jablotron integration

Now we are ready to install the Jablotron integration:

HACS>Integrations
Press the “+” in the bottom right corner
Search for “Jablotron” and click it

Start

Press “Install this repository in HACS” in the bottom right corner

Start

Select the latest version and press “Install”

Start

We will need to restart HA Configuration>Server Controls>Restart

Start

The Jablotron integration is now installed in HACS, which means we can configure the integration in HA

Configuration>Integrations
Pres the “+” in the bottom right corner
Search for “Jablotron” and click it

Start

At the “serial port” fill in “/dev/your_usb_port” The USB port is the one you found in the previous paragraph.
At “code”, fill in your master pin code for the Jablotron system, defined in F-Link
Now select the number of devices to integrate. You can find this in F-Link. Apart from the Control Panel, there are 19 devices in my configuration.

F-Link

Devices

For every device you have to define what type of device it is. Please note that some devices are not integrated in the integration yet. In those cases, select “Other”. The device numbers have to match the order in F-Link. Press “Submit”

Start

You can assign every device to an area. This is optional and you need to have created the areas in the previous paragraphs. When assigned press “Finish”
Please note that the keypad will show as “Section x” There will be as much sections as you have defined in F-Link.

Start

You have now successfully installed the Jablotron integration.

Add Frontend Card to Home Assistant

All sensors should now be operating. In order to control the system, you can add cards to the frontend. This can either be done by the visual editor or through adding code to the ui-lovelace.yaml. As my installation utilizes the code variant, I am unable to show the visual editor. Here are some examples of my code elements.

Control Panel:

- type: alarm-panel

states:

- arm_night

- arm_away

entity: alarm_control_panel.section_1

Start

Door Sensors:

- type: glance

entities:

- entity: binary_sensor.door_opening_detector_device_6

- entity: binary_sensor.door_opening_detector_device_8

- entity: binary_sensor.door_opening_detector_device_9

- entity: binary_sensor.door_opening_detector_device_10

- entity: binary_sensor.door_opening_detector_device_11

- entity: binary_sensor.door_opening_detector_device_17

title: Deursensoren

show_name: true

show_icon: true

show_state: false

columns: 2

state_color: true

Start

Activated sensors will show yellow when triggered.

Automations

Now that you have all sensors in Home Assistant, you can start using the entities in automations. For instance, in my case, whenever I activate the Jablotron alarm, I also enable my Blink camera system automatically 15 minutes later. The automation for this looks like this:

id: '1603462148150'

alias: Alarm, arm Blink when Jablotron armed

description: ''

trigger:

- platform: state

entity_id: alarm_control_panel.section_1

from: arming

to: armed_night

- platform: state

from: arming

to: armed_away

entity_id: alarm_control_panel.section_1

- platform: state

from: disarmed

to: armed_night

entity_id: alarm_control_panel.section_1

condition: []

action:

- delay: 00:15:00

- service: alarm_control_panel.alarm_arm_away

data: {}

entity_id: alarm_control_panel.blink_blink_vieleers

mode: single

The possibilities are endless when you have all your smart home devices into one platform like Home Assistant.

Some examples:

Let your lights flash when the Jablotron siren is activated.
Send notifications to your phone when sensors are triggered.
Have Home Assistant remind you on your google mini that you have left one of the doors open.