Dafang camera not communicating with HA

Configuration
#1

Hi,
I flashed my Neos Smartcam with success. I can confirm I have access to the Web UI, SSH, and I can see the camera with its stream in Home Assistant, using the Generic IP Camera integration.

I want to be able to get all the sensors and actions in HA, as illustrated in the HA guide on the Dafang repo.

I have other Zigbee devices (switches) detected through the MQTT moquitto broker and Zigbee2MQTT. This is 100% working.

My switches were detected after I permitted devices in Zigbee2MQTT. But I can’t find a way to trigger discovery / pairing for the camera.
I can’t find the camera and all its sensors. I would like to use it to create automation on motion detection, etc.

  • I modified the dafang config to connect to my local HA server, homeassistant.local. I also tried core-mosquitto, as it’s used by Zigbee2MQTT
  • I restarted the dafang camera, got it off and on again, restarted services
  • I restarted HA, checked the config, user access

There’s no trace of connection, successful or not, in the logs.

Any idea?

#2

Under network services configuration, have you have you set the auto-discovery topic to “homeassistant”?

#3

Yes the topic is set to homeassistant

#4

I solved that issue by doing the below (not sure which one was missing tbh):

  • put the user credentials directly in the yaml of the mosquitto broker
  • added listener: 1883
  • added allow_anonymous: true
  • changed the host for the IP address of the VM
    Hope that will help someone!
#5

Nice Job!!!