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Is there a way to have an event trigger a shell script? I have a script that turns on a relay, waits 5 seconds and then turns it off. I'm not too familiar with python or if it can be done there.

We do not provide the ability to execute shell scripts.

That said, you do have a few options - the alarmdecoder python library with a SocketDevice can listen to the stream and do specific things on events - there are examples on the github repository

You can also utilize a webserver and do a custom notification and point it to a URL that parses the data and executes things based on that.

Also, depending on panel, you can have the panel toggle the relay with a relay module on event (can be emulated with alarmdecoder).

Thanks. Sadly I have no Python experience, but I guess this is as good a time as any to learn something new.