Hikvision Doorbell camera motion sensor not working

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Has anyone been able to get the hikvision (or rebranded laview, rca, etc) doorbell camera working with the hikvision sensor component.

I have 4 cameras that I am able to use the motion and line crossing alerts, just fine, but the doorbell not so much.

It does show up as a sensor, but does not work.

My log gets flooded with this

2018-08-11 14:06:44 ERROR (Thread-6) [pyhik.hikvision] Problem finding attribute: ‘NoneType’ object has no attribute ‘text’
2018-08-11 14:06:45 ERROR (Thread-6) [pyhik.hikvision] Problem finding attribute: ‘NoneType’ object has no attribute ‘text’
2018-08-11 14:06:46 ERROR (Thread-6) [pyhik.hikvision] Problem finding attribute: ‘NoneType’ object has no attribute ‘text’
2018-08-11 14:06:47 ERROR (Thread-6) [pyhik.hikvision] Problem finding attribute: ‘NoneType’ object has no attribute ‘text’
2018-08-11 14:06:48 ERROR (Thread-6) [pyhik.hikvision] Problem finding attribute: ‘NoneType’ object has no attribute ‘text’
2018-08-11 14:06:49 ERROR (Thread-6) [pyhik.hikvision] Problem finding attribute: ‘NoneType’ object has no attribute ‘text’
2018-08-11 14:06:50 ERROR (Thread-6) [pyhik.hikvision] Problem finding attribute: ‘NoneType’ object has no attribute ‘text’
2018-08-11 14:06:51 ERROR (Thread-6) [pyhik.hikvision] Problem finding attribute: ‘NoneType’ object has no attribute ‘text’
2018-08-11 14:06:52 ERROR (Thread-6) [pyhik.hikvision] Problem finding attribute: ‘NoneType’ object has no attribute ‘text’
2018-08-11 14:06:53 ERROR (Thread-6) [pyhik.hikvision] Problem finding attribute: ‘NoneType’ object has no attribute ‘text’
2018-08-11 14:06:54 ERROR (Thread-6) [pyhik.hikvision] Problem finding attribute: ‘NoneType’ object has no attribute ‘text’
2018-08-11 14:06:55 ERROR (Thread-6) [pyhik.hikvision] Problem finding attribute: ‘NoneType’ object has no attribute ‘text’
2018-08-11 14:06:56 ERROR (Thread-6) [pyhik.hikvision] Problem finding attribute: ‘NoneType’ object has no attribute ‘text’

I am able to use it as a generic camera, but really thought it might be nice to trigger something based on the motion sensor.

I belive the hikvision component has not been updated in quite a while, so maybe its just in need of some work??

Of course if others are successfully using the motion sensor, it might be me

here is the yaml for my binary sensor

 - platform: hikvision
   host: 192.168.1.xxx
   port: 80
   ssl: False
   name: doorbell camera
   username: admin
   password: !secret camera_nvr_password
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Not sure I can help, but I would start with the exact configuration for the component list here https://www.home-assistant.io/components/binary_sensor.hikvision/.

If the other cameras work it may not help. Good luck,

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bump. Just wondering if anyone was using this or any of the rebranded (RCA, laview, etc) models of this doorbell and if anyone had any success with the motion sensor. Still a no go for me

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I got it working using motioneye as the video processor.
You can add all your cameras and create motion sensors.

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I get that, I’ve seen others use blue iris too. I was hoping to get it to work with just the native hikvision component. I dont do that much with my cameras. I have a NVR with 4 cameras plus the doorbell camera. The other 4 work just fine, line crossing, motion etc. The doorbell does work as just a generic camera, which is good, Just never got the motion part working. If possible I just want to avoid the overhead and maintenance of another piece of software

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Would you be willing to share your install details on HA for motion eye?

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Tries using this 6 months ago and had no luck… My advice is to return it.

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I’ve been using it for nearly a year. It works good overall. Before HA I felt like it was adequate. The only issue left with HA is the motion detection.

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sure
i run a docker. this is the compose

  motioneye: #https://github.com/ccrisan/motioneye/wiki/Install-In-Docker # https://community.home-assistant.io/t/some-of-the-new-docker-containers-i-am-using/56124/6
    container_name: motioneye
    image: ccrisan/motioneye:dev-amd64 #master-amd64
    hostname: motioneye
    restart: unless-stopped
    volumes:
    - /mnt/cache/appdata/motioneye/config:/etc/motioneye
    - /mnt/user/media/motioneye:/var/lib/motioneye
    - /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro
    environment:
    - PGID=100
    - PUID=99
    ports:
    - "7999:7999" #api interface port
    - "8765:8765" #web interface port
    - "8701-8703:8081-8083" #port per camera, more can be added subsequently

you have to create a binary sensor like this:

- platform: mqtt  #motioneye sensors
  name: "Frontdoor Motion"
  state_topic: "cameras/frontdoor/motion"  
  device_class: motion
  payload_on: "ON"
  off_delay: 10
  unique_id: frontdoor_motion

and then in motioneye under Motion Notification you add this command:

mosquitto_pub -h 192.168.1.xxx -t cameras/frontdoor/motion -u mqttuserid -P mqttpasswd -m ON

obviously you need to set up the camera in motioneye. the string is
rtsp://ip:554/Streaming/Channels/101

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Thank you very much. I’m running in a python VENV, no mqtt, no miosquitto, and no dockers. Sucks for me to have to add so much overhead for a single camera. It’s weird, because it does report motion events to the nvr, and the ios app. my other 4 cameras also report motion and line crossing without any issues.

I’m going to continue to play around and try to figure out if I can get this to report natively. I feel like it might just be a setting, firmware, or maybe I need to go through the nvr itself.

I’ll report back if I have any success

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Sooo, have u had any success getting motionfrom it in HA?

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I dont have this doorbell anymore. but only because I moved. I did manage to get motion events, but it was through another integration. I think in HACS.