A simple alarm control panel for Home Assistant's manual_mqtt alarm. Designed to run on a Raspberry Pi using an Adafruit 3.5" PiTFT.

Video of the control panel in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Lei8n_aSJI

Instructions for building your own: https://www.hackster.io/colinodell/diy-alarm-control-panel-for-home-assistant-ac1813

Display mockup:

• Raspberry Pi Zero Wireless (other modern Pis will likely work fine)
• Adafruit PiTFT 3.5" display

This project requires Python 2.7 with the following packages:

• paho-mqtt
• pygame
• python-dotenv

IMPORTANT: SDL 2.x and SDL 1.2.15-10 have some serious incompatibilities with touchscreen. You can force SDL 1.2 by running a script: https://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-pitft-28-inch-resistive-touchscreen-display-raspberry-pi/pitft-pygame-tips#ensure-you-are-running-sdl-1-dot-2

Copy .env.dist to .env and update the values accordingly.