Hi, can anyone tell me what the difference is between the eufy security addon and eufy-security-ws addons? I am wanting to use the best integration for my Eufy dual camera doorbell.
Thanks
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You need to run both from what I understand.
The instructions for integrating Eufy cameras (and doorbell) are here: Eufy Security
The article mentions using the addon and integration, but I see 2 addons in the store.
I’m equally confused and came here (to the forums) after being entirely unable to parse WTF the install instructions mean.
I just figured it out. Note that I’m running HAOS through a virtual machine and I’ve already installed HACS.
- Get the GitHub - fuatakgun/eufy_security: Home Assistant integration to manage Eufy Security devices as cameras, home base stations, doorbells, motion and contact sensors. installed (after the usual steps it will look like this)
- Presuming you already have HACS installed, go here and search for Eufy
The home assistant add on creates some sort of local server/proxy/whatever that talks to the Eufy cloud on one side and provides a local interface for homemade client things… like the HACS thing. The HACS thing is what acts like a client, by connecting to the local “proxy” (my own name for it), and in turn creating HA native devices+entities for all the Eufy things you own. I just did this for a smart safe (s12)
@bropat @anon63427907 FYI I can confirm at least the status items for the S12 smart safe are working. I haven’t yet figured out how to (or if I can) get the remote unlock to work. Happy to test anything you might want since I see S12 is listed as “untested” in your docs.
Add-on from my repository (GitHub - fuatakgun/eufy_security_addon) is archived and not updated anymore. As called out in README file on integration, you need to use this repository (GitHub - bropat/hassio-eufy-security-ws: Official eufy-security-ws Home Assistant add-on repository)
Not sure if smart safes are supposed to be unlock remotely. I would create an issue to bropat’s repository, share the device and get support. If any new service is needed on home assistant end, I can help.
@anon63427907 Thanks for the add-on. I’ve installed it to use with my Eufy dual camera wired doorbell. I understand that this camera does not have RTSP support. When I tried to stream it, most of the time it gave me a blank screen, and only occasionally that I can get the proper stream.
I actually only want to take a snapshot of the camera, but most of the time the photo came up mostly green, with just a few pixels on top of the image from the camera. Is that because my doorbell does not support RTSP?
Hi, I got my dual cam wired doorbell working with this automation …
alias: Capture Photo From Eufy Doorbell On Motion
description: ""
trigger:
- type: motion
platform: device
device_id: 16eda53f3b8f64273c8897147ee0b954
entity_id: binary_sensor.doorbell_person_detected
domain: binary_sensor
- type: motion
platform: device
device_id: 16eda53f3b8f64273c8897147ee0b954
entity_id: binary_sensor.doorbell_motion_detected
domain: binary_sensor
enabled: false
condition: []
action:
- service: eufy_security.start_p2p_livestream
data: {}
target:
entity_id: camera.doorbell
- service: eufy_security.generate_image
data: {}
enabled: true
target:
entity_id: camera.doorbell
- service: downloader.download_file
data:
overwrite: true
url: >-
https://[YOUR NABU CASE ID HERE].ui.nabu.casa{{
state_attr('camera.doorbell','entity_picture')}}
subdir: images/snapshots
filename: front_door.jpg
- service: eufy_security.stop_p2p_livestream
continue_on_error: true
data: {}
target:
entity_id: camera.doorbell
- device_id: 16eda53f3b8f64273c8897147ee0b954
domain: button
entity_id: button.doorbell_reboot
type: press
mode: single
I used these 2 add ons
Not sure if the doorbell restart is necessary but I was finding that it would work once and then get stuck. That seemed to fix that.
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