rwagoner
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4 years ago The Home Assistant statuses change to unavailable when the MQTT omnilink/status topic is offline. When OmniLinkBridge losses connection to the controller it will update this topic. Additionally the MQTT last will message is set, so if OmniLinkBridge is abruptly stopped the status will go to offline.
"Unsafe" and "safe" are Home Assistant MQTT device class states. They map to MQTT omnilink/zoneX/basic_state OFF or ON.
The Home Assistant alarm panel triggered state occurs when the OmniLink Area is in alarm state for burglary, auxiliary, or duress. This is independent of the unavailable status.
When OmniLinkBridge connects or reconnects to the controller it will publish to MQTT the current status for all zones, units, etc. The status changes at 3:52 are probably when OmniLinkBridge connected to the controller. The unknown part is why those statuses don't match what you thought the controller status was at the time. I've restarted OmniLinkBridge and Home Assistant in varying orders and haven't seen this issue.
If you have them please post the OmniLinkBridge logs for the above timeframe. Also, what OmniPro model and firmware are you using?
eddyg
First, let me just say a huge THANK YOU for OmniLinkBridge! Ever since I discovered its existence, it has opened up a world of new integrations with Home Assistant for a system that I previously thought was going to require a ton of custom coding to get working.
I am currently away from my residence, and yesterday, there was a power outage there. For some context, below is the sequence of events from the Home Assistant logbook (from newest to oldest). Starting at the bottom, you can see where the UPS kicked in, then the battery to run out so the system shutdown, then power returned and the HA server came back on:
When I checked the status this morning, the
alarm-panelcard was flashing and said Triggered and it appeared all the lights connected to the Omni were on (like what happens when the Omni triggers an alarm). But I have no way of knowing for sure since I wasn't there. I disarmed the system from HA, manually turned off all the lights, and then re-armed the system.I'm particularly interested in why the system changed to "Triggered", and what "unsafe" and "safe" mean.
I'm thinking the network device that the Omni is plugged in to (which is different than where the HA server is connected) may have still been starting and thus not passing traffic, and that's why it seemed "unavailable"?
Thanks again for an amazing add-on! And my apologies if there's a better place to ask about this; I figured here might be a good starting point at least.