omni-pca-docs/src/content/docs/reference/ha-entities.md

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Home Assistant entity catalogue	One device per panel plus typed entities for every named object — alarm panels, lights, binary sensors, climates, sensors, buttons, switches, and a typed event relay.

The integration creates one HA device per Omni panel. Every named object on the controller (zones, units, areas, thermostats, buttons) is materialised as one or more typed entities below. Discovery happens once at first refresh; live state propagates over the panel's unsolicited push channel within one TCP round-trip, with a 30-second poll backstopping anything that didn't push.

Platform	Entity	Per
alarm_control_panel	Area arm/disarm with code	discovered area
binary_sensor	Zone open/tripped	binary zone
binary_sensor	Zone bypassed (diagnostic)	binary zone
binary_sensor	AC power, backup battery, system trouble	panel
button	Panel button macro	discovered button
climate	Thermostat (heat/cool/auto, fan, hold)	discovered thermostat
event	Typed push event relay	panel
light	Unit on/off + brightness	discovered unit
sensor	Analog zone (temp/humidity/power)	analog zone
sensor	Thermostat current temp / humidity / outdoor temp	thermostat
sensor	Panel model + firmware, last event class	panel
switch	Zone bypass toggle	binary zone

alarm_control_panel

One per discovered area (OmniAreaAlarmPanel). Surfaces the area's current SecurityMode translated into HA's AlarmControlPanelState enum:

• OFF → disarmed
• DAY → armed_home
• NIGHT → armed_night
• AWAY → armed_away
• VACATION → armed_vacation
• DAY_INSTANT → armed_custom_bypass
• ARMING_* (security modes 9..14) → arming
• entry-timer running → pending
• alarms != 0 → triggered

Supported features: ARM_HOME, ARM_NIGHT, ARM_AWAY, ARM_VACATION, ARM_CUSTOM_BYPASS. Code validation is enforced server-side: the user's PIN is sent through ExecuteSecurityCommand (opcode 74). Wrong code raises an HA ServiceValidationError.

Attributes: area_index, mode_name, entry_timer_secs, exit_timer_secs, alarm_active, alarm_bitfield.

binary_sensor

Three flavours.

Per binary zone — open/tripped (OmniZoneBinarySensor). device_class is derived from the zone's ZoneType:

ZoneType	HA BinarySensorDeviceClass
ENTRY_EXIT, PERIMETER, NIGHT_INTERIOR, AWAY_INTERIOR, DELAY, LATCHING	door / window (opening)
FIRE, FIRE_EMERGENCY, FIRE_TAMPER	smoke
GAS	gas
WATER	moisture
FREEZE	cold
TAMPER, LATCHING_TAMPER	tamper
TROUBLE	problem
temperature/humidity types	(handled by sensor instead)

State: on when the zone is open / not-secure / tripped. Attributes: zone_index, zone_type, area, current_state, latched_state, arming_state, is_in_alarm, is_trouble.

Per binary zone — bypass diagnostic (OmniZoneBypassBinarySensor). entity_category = DIAGNOSTIC, on iff the zone is currently bypassed (user or auto-bypass).

Per panel — system trouble triplet. Three diagnostic sensors per panel:

• binary_sensor.{name}_ac_power — on iff AC is OK (inverted from AcLost)
• binary_sensor.{name}_backup_battery — on iff battery OK
• binary_sensor.{name}_system_trouble — on iff any current trouble

These mirror the typed events AcLost/AcRestored, BatteryLow/ BatteryRestored, and DcmTrouble/DcmOk.

button

One OmniButton per discovered panel button macro. Pressing the HA button dispatches a Command.EXECUTE_BUTTON (parameter2 = button index). No state.

This is the only entity for "scenes" — Omni "scenes" are user-named button macros, so adding a parallel scene platform would just double-count.

climate

One OmniClimate per discovered thermostat. Maps the panel's HvacMode

• FanMode + HoldMode triple onto HA's HVACMode, fan modes, and preset modes. Setpoints are translated through the omni_temp_to_* helpers so HA can display whatever unit the user prefers.

Supported features: TARGET_TEMPERATURE (single setpoint), or TARGET_TEMPERATURE_RANGE when in HEAT_COOL/auto mode. Fan: auto, on, cycle. Preset: none, hold, vacation.

Attributes: thermostat_index, humidity_percent, outdoor_temperature_*, humidify_setpoint_raw, dehumidify_setpoint_raw, horc_status (1=heating active, 2=cooling active).

event

One OmniPanelEvent per panel. Surfaces the typed push-event stream as a single HA event entity with event_types:

zone_state_changed       unit_state_changed       arming_changed
alarm_activated          alarm_cleared
ac_lost                  ac_restored
battery_low              battery_restored
user_macro_button        phone_line_dead          phone_line_restored

Plus an unknown catch-all for the 14 less-common SystemEvent subclasses.

Each event carries the originating dataclass's fields in event_data (zone index, area, alarm type, etc.), plus a raw_word for debugging.

Automations key on platform: state filtered by attributes.event_type. See HA services → automation example for a worked snippet.

light

One OmniLight per discovered unit. Dimmer state is a single byte that encodes a lot:

State byte	Meaning
0	Off
1	On (relay; no level info — exposed as 100% brightness)
2..13	Scene A..L (state - 63 → ASCII)
17..25	Dim 1..9 (state - 16)
26	Blink
33..41	Brighten 1..9 (state - 32)
100..200	Brightness 0..100% (state - 100)

Non-dimmable relays silently ignore brightness. Conversion is done in pure helpers (omni_state_to_ha_brightness, ha_brightness_to_omni_percent) unit-tested without HA in the venv.

Attributes: unit_index, time_remaining_secs (panel-side timer for auto-off; 0 = indefinite).

sensor

Three flavours.

Per analog zone. Zones with ZoneType in {TEMPERATURE, OUTDOOR_TEMP, HUMIDITY, TEMP_ALARM, ENERGY_SAVER, FREEZE} get a sensor entity instead of (or in addition to) a binary sensor. Unit is inferred from the zone type — temperature in °F/°C, humidity as %, power-related as W.

Per thermostat. Three sub-sensors per thermostat:

• sensor.{name}_temperature — current measured temp
• sensor.{name}_humidity — humidity percent
• sensor.{name}_outdoor_temperature — outdoor temp (if reported)

Per panel. Two info sensors:

• sensor.{name}_panel_model — model name + firmware version (state)
• sensor.{name}_last_event — class name of the most recent SystemEvent (ZoneStateChanged, ArmingChanged, etc.) with the raw word as an attribute

switch

One OmniZoneBypassSwitch per binary zone, entity_category = CONFIG. Toggling the switch dispatches Command.BYPASS_ZONE / Command.RESTORE_ZONE. State mirrors the bypass diagnostic binary sensor above.

What gets discovered

Only objects with a name set on the panel are discovered — that's the panel's own definition of "this slot is in use". To populate names, use PC Access's "Names" page (or any other Omni programmer). On a fresh factory-default panel you'll see zero entities; configure object names first, then reload the integration.

Where to look in source

Class	File
OmniAreaAlarmPanel	custom_components/omni_pca/alarm_control_panel.py
OmniZoneBinarySensor, OmniZoneBypassBinarySensor	binary_sensor.py
OmniButton	button.py
OmniClimate	climate.py
OmniPanelEvent	event.py
OmniLight	light.py
sensor classes	sensor.py
OmniZoneBypassSwitch	switch.py

All of them sit on top of OmniDataUpdateCoordinator (coordinator.py), which keeps a long-lived OmniClient, runs one-time discovery on first refresh, and patches state in-place from the typed event stream.

What it looks like in HA

The integration appears alongside the rest of HA's built-in integrations in Settings → Devices & Services:

Clicking through, the integration page reports the discovered counts and the hub:

The device page is where every entity surfaces. Lights and switches with toggles, areas with arm states, thermostats with current temperature and setpoints, panel-button macros with Press buttons, plus the Diagnostics download:

Developer Tools → States exposes the raw entity payloads — useful for template authoring and for confirming an attribute is wired through: