Sector Lite

Sector Lite is a custom Home Assistant integration for retrieving and monitoring the alarm status of your Sector Alarm system.
It provides a read-only alarm_control_panel entity and fires an event whenever the alarm status changes, allowing powerful automations.

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Features

• Authenticate with your existing Sector Alarm credentials
• Automatically selects your default panel (or first available panel)
• Displays alarm state as a Home Assistant alarm_control_panel entity
• Fires a Home Assistant event on status changes:
  • Event type: sector_lite_alarm_status_changed
  • Includes both previous and current states (numeric + text)
• Lightweight design intended for monitoring only

Note: This integration cannot arm or disarm the alarm system.
It is strictly a monitoring integration.

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Installation

🟦 Install via HACS (recommended)

1. Open HACS → Integrations
2. Click the ⋯ menu → Custom repositories
3. Add:

Category: Integration

4. Find Sector Lite in the HACS list and install it
5. Restart Home Assistant
6. Go to Settings → Devices & Services → Add Integration
7. Search for Sector Lite
8. Enter your Sector Alarm User ID and Password

The integration will:

• Log in to your Sector Alarm account
• Retrieve the list of alarm panels
• Select the default panel (or first one found)
• Start polling for status changes (every 30 seconds by default)

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Entity

The integration creates:

alarm_control_panel.<panel_name_sanitized>

Attributes include:

Attribute	Description
status	Numeric status from API (1/2/3)
status_text	disarmed, armed_home, armed_away
panel_id	Sector Alarm panel ID
panel_name	Display name from the Sector API

Current supported states:

Sector Value	Meaning
1	Disarmed
2	Armed Home
3	Armed Away

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Event: sector_lite_alarm_status_changed

Whenever the alarm state changes, the integration fires a Home Assistant event:

Event structure

{
"entry_id": "abc123",
"panel_id": "123456",
"panel_name": "My Home",
"status": 2,
"status_text": "armed_home",
"previous_status": 1,
"previous_status_text": "disarmed"
}