Bringing together a Raspberry Pi, Home Assistant, and an Aeotec ZWave Stick, Door/Window Sensor, and Siren, I’ve got the beginnings of something practical: an audio alert that will fire with escalating intensity when a door is left ajar long enough to risk a curious animal wandering out of the house.

The configuration is a little bit copy-pasta and a little bit inconsistent. I don’t yet know how much cleaner it can be with Home Assistant’s native faculties. That is a project for future Andrew. Today’s exercise was an exploration of the art of the possible.

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automation:
– alias: Rear Door Ajar Alarm Initiation
trigger:
platform: state
entity_id: binary_sensor.aeotec_zw112_door_window_sensor_6_sensor_2
to: ‘on’
for:
seconds: 5
action:
– service: zwave.set_config_parameter
data:
node_id: 13
parameter: 37
value: "Sound 5 – Low Volume"
– alias: Rear Door Ajar Alarm Escalation
trigger:
platform: state
entity_id: binary_sensor.aeotec_zw112_door_window_sensor_6_sensor_2
to: ‘on’
for:
seconds: 10
action:
– service: zwave.set_config_parameter
data:
node_id: 13
parameter: 37
value: "Sound 4 – Low Volume"
– alias: Rear Door Ajar Alarm Panic
trigger:
platform: state
entity_id: binary_sensor.aeotec_zw112_door_window_sensor_6_sensor_2
to: ‘on’
for:
seconds: 15
action:
– service: zwave.set_config_parameter
data:
node_id: 13
parameter: 37
value: "Sound 3 – Low Volume"
– alias: Rear Door Ajar Alarm Termination
trigger:
platform: state
entity_id: binary_sensor.aeotec_zw112_door_window_sensor_6_sensor_2
to: ‘off’
action:
– service: switch.turn_off
entity_id: switch.aeotec_zw080_siren_gen5_switch
– alias: Front Door Ajar Alarm Initiation
trigger:
platform: state
entity_id: binary_sensor.aeotec_zw112_door_window_sensor_6_sensor
to: ‘on’
for:
seconds: 10
action:
– service: zwave.set_config_parameter
data:
node_id: 13
parameter: 37
value: "Sound 5 – Low Volume"
– alias: Front Door Ajar Alarm Escalation
trigger:
platform: state
entity_id: binary_sensor.aeotec_zw112_door_window_sensor_6_sensor
to: ‘on’
for:
seconds: 30
action:
– service: zwave.set_config_parameter
data:
node_id: 13
parameter: 37
value: "Sound 4 – Low Volume"
– alias: Front Door Ajar Alarm Panic
trigger:
platform: state
entity_id: binary_sensor.aeotec_zw112_door_window_sensor_6_sensor
to: ‘on’
for:
seconds: 60
action:
– service: zwave.set_config_parameter
data:
node_id: 13
parameter: 37
value: "Sound 3 – Low Volume"
– alias: Front Door Ajar Alarm Termination
trigger:
platform: state
entity_id: binary_sensor.aeotec_zw112_door_window_sensor_6_sensor
to: ‘off’
action:
– service: switch.turn_off
entity_id: switch.aeotec_zw080_siren_gen5_switch
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