Enable/Disable Dahua Motion Detect via API using Shell_Command

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I have a Dahua SD22204T which has a certain ONVIF support from HA. Unfortunately the ‘camera.enable_motion_detection’ and ‘camera.dusable_motion_detection’ are not working, running Home Assistant 0.110.4. This is a pity since the Dahua firmware does not support sunset triggers for enabling and disabling motion detect and when it gets dark it is too unreliable in the daylight settings.

So… I found this API reference and was happy to see that the calls below work perfectly fine. So I’ve put them in a shell command for now.

dahua_motion_enable: curl -g --anyauth –u <uid>:<pwd> 'http://<ip/dns>/cgi-bin/configManager.cgi?action=setConfig&MotionDetect[0].Enable=true'
dahua_motion_enable: curl -g --anyauth –u <uid>:<pwd> 'http://<ip/dns>/cgi-bin/configManager.cgi?action=setConfig&MotionDetect[0].Enable=false

My reason for share this is to help others.

P.s. Of course it would be create to have this “fixed” and maybe additional functionality was added, but I just don’t have the tools, time and knowledge to do this by myself. So this is my solution for now and maybe it inspires others to solve issues using Shell_Command

edit: fixed the API reference link

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By the way, if someone has a (nice) way of getting the result (when successful an OK) back to HA, then I’d be interested. Perhaps not specifically for these commands, but in general.

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You might consider using the amcrest integration. I’m told it works with Dahua cameras as well (and implements the services for enabling & disabling motion detection.)

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I can confirm. Thanks for the tip! I’ll switch from ONVIF to amcrest cause it offers more features than ONVIF for my cam. It however doesn’t offer a full enable/disable motion detection, which by itself is fine.
It offers the option to Disable/Enable recording on motion detect, but lacks the option to enable/disable snapshots or email on motion.
amcrest
So I am afraid I still need my API commands, but will make it handle the missing options instead of fully enable/disable motion detect.

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Those services are already defined in the camera domain & are supported by the amcrest integration: camera.enable_motion_detection & camera.disable_motion_detection. The services in the amcrest domain are above & beyond what the camera component defines.

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They didn’t work when I first tried them, so I thought they where incompatible with my cam.
I did a check just yet and can confirm it works. Looking back, the problem of not working probably lay in the ONVIF only account I created for Home Assistant. That account probably didn’t had the correct privileges to disable and enable motion detect.

Thanks a lot!