Anyone built their own DIY Security System integrated with HA?

That was my plan, didn't know if anyone had any experience with certain sensors and whatnot. I'm just getting into HA, so we'll see how this goes

I just ordered some Aqara door sensors and a zigbee USB dongle to passthrough to my HA VM. Might just keep Blue Iris around or swap over to Milestone Xprotect

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Have fun!

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And good luck. It's awesome, but sometimes I wish I had never learned about HA.

To the OP, I have Ring for my alarm system and Blue Iris for my cameras, all integrated into HA. Your setup shouldn't be all that difficult, but happy to try and answer questions should you have them.

I use konnected.io with JA and my existing wires ala system.

To say it works awesome would be an understatement.

Took a little tinkering (like anything else in HA) and I toned the wires to figure out which wires were which.

Like another poster said, I have things like door sensors set up to turn on nearby outside lights.

Also have a couple lights with smart motion detectors that will send me a notification if they get motion during certain hours.

Alarm arms/disarms automatically when smart deadbolts are unlocked.

It's awesome.

Can also set up geo fencing to arm alarm when everyone is gone.

Zoneminder works, but found it was not really intuitive to setting up a camera.

You said you don't want paid, but the $60 one time fee of BI is 100% worth it.

I have an existing security system, but I want to “smartify” it and will either get an Envisalink or Konnected add on for it. I don’t want to buy something twice, so I plan on running a drop into my alarm panel box which is in a far corner, in a metal box, above a door frame meaning if I were to have wifi difficulty somewhere, it would be the most likely place, so I think I’m going with Konnected because it offers Ethernet where Envisalink doesn’t (if I remember), but Konnected is a much more difficult to assemble product (4 wires for envisalink runs the current system in parallel where you have to basically run a full parallel system with Konnected to keep the panels intact). They both have Home Assistant integrations, but Konnected is what everyone on the internet seems to recommend to build automations.