The IQ Panel 5 is Qolsys's current 7-inch touchscreen security panel, with PowerG+ encrypted sensors, a legacy sensor receiver, 800-series Z-Wave with Long Range, and Alarm.com cellular monitoring. Home Assistant pairs with it locally through the Qolsys Panel integration and gets arming, alarm state, every zone, and the panel's Z-Wave devices in real time.
The IQ Panel 5 succeeds the IQ Panel 4 and is the panel to quote for a new install. It launched on firmware equivalent to IQ Panel 4 version 4.6.1, so it pairs with Home Assistant the same way: the Qolsys Panel integration joins it as an IQ Remote, using the installer code, with Home Assistant on the same subnet while it finds the panel over mDNS. After that the connection is local push, with nothing passing through Alarm.com.
Home Assistant gets one alarm control panel per partition, with arm home, away, and night, plus actions for panic alarms, quick exit, and silent disarming. Every zone reports open, closed, tamper, and battery state, and the panel’s scenes, TTS speaker, and paired Z-Wave locks, lights, thermostats, and garage doors come through as well. Leave those Z-Wave devices on the panel when the client wants them in the Alarm.com app too, and move them to Home Assistant’s own Z-Wave network when they don’t.
The panel stays the security system of record. Central station monitoring, the siren, and the battery backup keep working if Home Assistant is down. Like the IQ Panel 4, it takes one legacy receiver for existing sensors (319.5 MHz for GE and Interlogix, 345 MHz for Honeywell and 2GIG, 433 MHz for DSC) alongside PowerG+, so order the variant that matches the sensors already in the walls.
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