Alerts: a dedicated page to configure everything in one place

Feature requests
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The Need

The alarm configuration is currently scattered: the code and the delay are in the house settings, the widget is on a dashboard, and everything else — that is, the essential part — lives in the scenes. To understand what the alarm does, you have to open several scenes and read them.

There is no single place where you can see what the alarm is monitoring, in which modes, with which delays and which codes. And there is no single place either to see at a glance what state it is in.

What is Expected

An Alarm page, with the status at the top and the configuration below, organized by subject: sensors, zones, delays, codes, keypads, history.

And an enhanced widget, which not only displays the mode but also shows what deserves attention: open sensors, ignored sensors, and in case of intrusion, what triggered it and when.

What it Would Look Like

ALARM                                            House ▾

  ● Disarmed                Last Event
                            08/09 · 22:14 — Disarmed by Quentin

  ┌──────────┐ ┌────────┐ ┌───────────┐
  │ Presence │ │  Night  │ │  Absence  │
  └──────────┘ └────────┘ └───────────┘

  18 Sensors · 17 Available · 1 Open

  ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
  Sensors   Zones   Delays   Codes   Keypads   History

┌────────────────────────────────────────┐
│  🚨  ALARM TRIGGERED                 │
│                                        │
│  Garage Door — 19:42                  │
│  Mode : Absence                        │
│                                        │
│  ┌────────────────────────────────────┐│
│  │             Disarm                 ││
│  └────────────────────────────────────┘│
└────────────────────────────────────────┘

Questions to Decide

  1. Where does this page live? In the settings, next to the houses — or in the main menu, at the same level as the scenes and devices? The second option states that the alarm is a standalone function, not a parameter.
  2. The alarm belongs to a house. For those who have several, one page per house or a selector at the top?
  3. What do we keep on small screens? The widget must remain usable on mobile and on a wall-mounted tablet, where space is limited. What do we sacrifice first?
  4. Are the triggering notifications set from this page, or do they remain entirely in the scenes?
  5. Do urgent alerts belong to this topic? An alarm trigger deserves more than an ordinary notification — on mobile as well as in HomeKit. Is this here, or in a separate request?
  6. Is a history expected in the first version, and to what depth?

Complexity and Dependencies

Medium to high, but above all progressive: this page grows with the other requests. It can exist very early with two sections and then expand later.

It brings together for the user everything that the other requests bring:

This request is part of a set from the discussion Gladys Alarm System (Need F10).

Système d'alarme Gladys