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title: ESPHome Customization on the Konnected Alarm Panel (6-zone models)
description: For even more flexible integration possibilities, you can load the open-source ESPHome firmware on the Konnected Alarm Panel and Konnected Alarm Panel add-on.
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# ESPHome Customization on the Konnected Alarm Panel (6-zone models)

## How to customize your Konnected Alarm Panel 6-zone device with Konnected's ESPHome packages

This article applies to **6-Zone Konnected Alarm Panels** running ESPHome firmware.

### Default Alarm Panel Firmware Packages

Konnected's pre-built default firmware for our 6-zone Alarm Panel products set up all 6  zones as binary sensor inputs, and set the one output as an alarm. When you import an ESPHome device and click *edit* to customize the firmware, the default configuration looks like this:

```
substitutions:  name: alarm-panel-xxxxxxpackages:  konnected.alarm-panel-esp8266: github://konnected-io/konnected-esphome/alarm-panel-esp8266.yaml@masteresphome:  name: ${name}  name_add_mac_suffix: falseapi:  encryption:    key: UNIQUE_GENERATED_KEY_FOR_HOME_ASSISTANTwifi:  ssid: !secret wifi_ssid  password: !secret wifi_password
```

The *package* linked above, **[konnected-io/konnected-esphome/alarm-panel-esp8266.yaml](https://github.com/konnected-io/konnected-esphome/blob/master/alarm-panel-esp8266.yaml)**,is Konnected's default list of packages and components.

### Extended Configuration for Customizing Packages

To customize the firmware, you can pick and choose from the packages that you want. To do this, follow the link above to the default package on GithHub, and copy and paste the contents of that file into your ESPHome config, replacing *everything except* your substitutions section, like this (comments removed for brevity):

```
substitutions:  name: alarm-panel-xxxxxxpackages:  remote_package:    url: http://github.com/konnected-io/konnected-esphome    ref: master    refresh: 5min    files:      - packages/alarm-panel-esp8266-base.yaml      - packages/alarm-panel/zone1.yaml      - packages/alarm-panel/zone2.yaml      - packages/alarm-panel/zone3.yaml      - packages/alarm-panel/zone4.yaml      - packages/alarm-panel/zone5.yaml      - packages/alarm-panel/zone6.yaml      - packages/alarm-panel/alarm.yaml      - packages/wifi.yaml      - packages/warning-beep.yaml      - packages/status-led.yamlesphome:  name: ${name}  name_add_mac_suffix: falseapi:  encryption:    key: UNIQUE_GENERATED_KEY_FOR_HOME_ASSISTANTwifi:  ssid: !secret wifi_ssid  password: !secret wifi_passwordweb_server:logger:ota:
```

This configuration is equivalent to the one above, but it's expanded out so you can pick and choose which packages or components to use.

 

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