Easy, my front door is my main ingress/egress point. So I don’t want to get a clip of my backside as I walk out to get the mail and then as I come back. That’s useless noise to me. Being able to disable/enable the guard mode is critical for that.
Yes but you could automate off it. I don’t believe the stream from the Eufy camera (even the RTMP one that ioBroker/the current HASS integration gets) is castable. So I’m not sure even if this works you’ll have a solution. Though perhaps there’s a way to trigger the google home to open the doorbell stream with this
I’m with you Fuzzy on the noise… As much as I love seeing my wife’s bum on camera, 4 or 5 times a day gets a little old… I’m inclined to try and tie a door sensor into a NodeRed automation that disables the motion detection IF the door is opened. Anyone done something like that?
I created some node red flow to change the guard mode for some minutes and switch back automatically. I simply created a switch entity inside node and work on that.
I use the rest command I provided above to change the guard mode:
Yeah I use a zwave door sensor for that and a bunch of other things. I also spent last night rewriting my set up to use a input_selects instead of switches so I have more options (i generally only use 2 but figured why not have more)
Sorry if this is a dumb question, the way this forum is set up is uniquely bad at ctrl-f’ing ‘hub’.
Have we discovered a way to circumvent the need for the Eufy security hub, here? I want a doorbell but don’t want another bit of proprietary hardware hooked up to the system; zwave and zigbee have been onerous enough. Also I can’t find much information about the security hub, which makes me skeptical about the level of information control I would have over it…
The Hub stores your camera images and video, so at a minimum no. It also doesn’t handle RTSP yet, and the security modes come from the base station as well.
I see you guys are in talking mode to get it into an addon
Way to go !
You use cameras to let your alarm go off?
That strange, i use motion detectors for that…
Those motion detectors from me are from the alarm system i have, so i use the arm/disarm there…
But i understand now, perhaps the same guy will implement guard mode too?
If you use HassOS you can easily install Portainer from the Add-On store, and then quite easily deploy/build a docker stack. Once I get my hands on this doorbell I’ll give it a go
I have one literally on the way from Amazon arriving today, and hope it doesn’t require a hub! The product page doesn’t mention it, only the battery operated Eufy doorbells say a hub is required.
Can anyone put up a redacted section of YAML on how you guys have structured a sensor template for the motion sensor in one of your cams? I have an idea of how to do it but I’d like someone’s already working structure to work off of? Maybe we can make a section on Fuzzy’s blog for code sample snippets?
Okay, doorbell acquired! Looks good. Will install properly tomorrow, hoping my existing doorbell wiring doesn’t melt. My doorbell is currently running off the included power adapter and is getting rather warm to the touch - anyone else have that? I just found forum threads on eufy site with lots of people mentioning overheating issues…hmm
ioBroker installed via the supervisor store and up and running. ioBroker looks like HA and mqtt had an ugly child. “ioBroker is not just an application, it’s more of a a concept”…yikes.
I’ve tried eufy-ha-mqtt-bridge and its certainly registering events but for me it’s not sending them via MQTT. No idea why, as everything looks fine.
Thanks for creating the addon @MaxW will give it a go tomorrow!
Okay, I found the issue, eufy-ha-mqtt-bridge only currently supports the battery models of the doorbell. The powered ones won’t work yet, but a small tweak and they should.
there’s an event for it… but you have to write up some yaml in a template sensor section to read the sensor change state… I am looking for someone to post a snippet of their YAML so I can see how others have structured theirs…
Tried to install nonsleepr’s integration, no devices / entities appeared after installation and kept getting ‘Failed to request’ errors in my logs. Tried changing my password in the Eufy Security app and after changing it I’m not able log in because I keep getting ‘Failed to request.’ errors in the mobile apps and webportal now too. Anyone else receiving ‘failed to request’ errors?
I installed the eufy-ha-mqtt-bridge addon and was instantly able to get a logbook event of a doorbell press! This is awesome, I have always been wanting to do automations based on Eufy security events.
I also have the Indoor Cam 2K and the Floodlight. I’m not very familiar with node or MQTT but I will share the device types and push payloads I’m getting for those on github in case anyone can help add support for them in matijse’s app.
