Hi @Rbuck 

I made this, but it had same bug, I added silence hub, then delay 1 s and after that ring.

This worked :)

Thanks again for your help.

  Hi @Lobo_E,

that's great, well done on working through the work around to make it work.

 Hi, @Rbuck 

I noticed one thing. 

When I disable alarm, it will give 2 notifications on tapo app that alarm has been disabled??

Any idea why?

Adding delay before message seems to solve this, but is there a any other way?

  @Lobo_E 

If adding a delay before the message solves the problem then it sounds like the Automation is triggering twice in succession really quickly. I see that you are using rotate anticlockwise to trigger the "Turn off alarm" shortcut. Possibly you are turning for two long and it triggers twice.

When an automation is re-triggered while in progress, the one in execution is stopped and then it is started again by the re-trigger so your work around will stop the one in progress before it sends the message and restarts it from the top resulting in the message only being sent once.

I suggest just turning the smart button a little less, (or change the automation to a double tap is harder to accidently trigger twice).

Hope that works, let me know if not...

  Hi @Rbuck 

Delay seems to be an answer to this :)

Do you know is there a way to make knob act as real smart, like you have to rotate, push in certain combination to start or stop automation? (paranoid mode if buglar finds button) :D

Hi  @Lobo_E,

I place my button in a not so obvious place, (that is why I have the 20 second entry time to allow me to get to it). However if you do want to implement a secret combination, it is possible... You would do this as follows by creating 2 separate automations for "Turn Alarm off" Automation which enable each other to create the combination. 

This example is to use turn off alarm by a double press followed by a clockwise turn

Automation 1: "Turn off Alarm part 1":

• When: Smart Button is double pressed
• Then: Enable Automation 2

Automation 2: "Turn off Alarm part 2"

• When Smart button is rotated clockwise 
• Then: Run "Alarm off shortcut"

In the Alarm off shortcut make sure you disable Automation 2 above. That way it is only ever disabled by automation 1 ("Double Press").

You can have as many of these as you want in the sequence... just make sure you disable all but the first in the Alarm off shortcut.

You can obviously also do this for turning the alarm on... but if the alarm is on then it should not matter, however it may go back to the 60 seconds exit routine... So if you want to stop the burgular just hitting the alarm on button when the alarm is already active then you could add the following condition on the "Turn on Alarm" automation:

• In the "Turn on Alarm" automation - Add an "If" condition of "Alarm" Automation is Disabled 
• This will result in nothing happening if the burgular tries to turn on the alarm when it is already active. I think this is a better solution than adding a combination for Alarm on but that is up to you....

Good luck and always happy to help....

  Hi @Rbuck 

Thanks, I was overthinking the process!

Tested this, and it works :)

Thanks again!

Edit.

Oh, I just noticed that after short period of time, alarm is activated again? Just caused a major siren noise :D

I think that reason is since I used one press on S200 to turn on the alarm, and when entering house, I pressed button and after that rotated the knop, it must activated alarm again..

Hi  @Lobo_E,

I can't remeber which button push you used to turn the alarm on so it's hard for me to advise, I would not use any of the same push commands (i.e. single press, double press, rotate..) in enabling and disabling.

However as I mentioned above, if you include the following if condition below then it will reduce the chance of accidentally turing the alarm back on when it is already active.

• In the "Turn on Alarm" automation - Add an "If" condition of "Alarm" Automation is Disabled 

Lastly, there are likely to be issues if you turn the alarm on then off in quick succession due to the delays in the "Alarm on Shortcut" which results in the alarm on automation continuing if the alarm is turned off during the entry delay time...

• Actually if you want this could be fixed by the following (which will kill the "Alarm on Shortcut" executing inside the "Alarm on Automation"):
  • In the Alarm off Shortcut
    • Add a first action a new first action to disable the "Turn on Alarm" automation
    • Add a action before the notification action to enable the "Turn on Alarm" automation
  • What happens here is as soon as an automation is disabled, it is stopped which will kill the Alarm on instantly whenthe Alarm off is executed...

Lastly, I'm not sure if I mentioned this somewhere earlier, but just for your info, when a shortcut is called by an automation it is just like including those actions in the automation so killing the automation also kills any shortcuts called by it. Sorry if that is too much info/too technical.

Hope that helps.

  Hi@Rbuck

Thank you,

I will try with these :)