Simple Siri Shortcut Arm / Disarm

[robin.ellins]

I was looking for a simple way to create a Siri Shortcut to arm and disarm the system both from an icon on the home screen or by saying "Hey Siri, Arm Alarm" without using Homekit and the Home Assistant Envisalink plugin.

In the end it was very easy by simply capturing the URL structure from the built in web server in the Envisalink 4 and then stumbling across http://forum.eyez-on.com/FORUM/viewtopi ... 5b492fb2a9 allowing me to fine tune the process.

In Shortcuts, I created a new shortcuts called Arm Stay, Arm Away, and Disarm Alarm.
Select "Get Contents of URL" as the action and then entered the URL from the list below.

The URL scheme is:

Arm Stay: http://username:password@xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/2?A=1&P=S&p=1
Arm Away: http://username:password@xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/2?A=1&P=A&p=1
Disarm: http://username:password@xxx.xxx.xxx.xx ... p=1&X=zzzz

username:password that is set in your Envisalink device
xxx - ip address
zzz - password

This only works when your phone is connected to your home wifi - which is really a good security feature.

This is really useful if you are in bed and forgot to arm your system.
Handy too if your arms are full and you want to disarm the system as you are approaching the house.
When you are really busy and heading out the door, being able to say "Hey Siri, Arm Away" actually saves a little time.

[GrandWizard]

Thanks for the info!

[Randomkid52]

It doesn’t work for me. Anything I should check?

[piercinglog]

Thank you for the updated info!

[lmh2000]

I connected the EVL to Siri by spinning up a raspberry pie running open source Homekit bridge Hoobs. Then installing the EVL Bridge into Hoobs.


From there it is all native tongue for siri so you can call the Alarm anything your users feel comfortable with. Since it is behind the iOS security model i.e face recognition, user voice and iOS password protection users can arm/disarm/manage from anywhere.