It’s written in the docs, you can setup a manually mqtt broker 
Or just setup a new broker within HA
I’m already trying everything possible but I’m still very new to Home Assistant and haven’t figured out how to set up two brokers on one Home Assistant instance. I would need a guide for dummies on how to do this setup.
I also know that it requires a lot of work, so I understand if you don’t have time or don’t want to do it.
If you are already running an mqtt broker on HA itself , you don’t need a second one, just starry the doorbell addon, it should auto discover the broker
What broker are you running? Mqtt addon?
Yes only that one
You can define your own user/pass, look here :
Hey, folks!
First of all, thanks to @pergola.fabio and all the contributors for the great integration!
I run hikvision-doorbell as a standalone Docker container and observe the following strange behavior: even with an empty doorbell list in the config, the program consumes about 2% of CPU, which seems like a rather high CPU usage for an idle process.
I did some investigation, and it seems the main suspect is the Hikvision SDK. Even a trivial script like this:
sdk = load_SDK()
setup_SDK(sdk)
time.sleep(60)
still consumes about 2% of CPU.
Is this a common issue, or is it specific to my setup?
Running as HA addon , is the same, Im also seeing around 1.3-1.9… it’s running an quite old SDK, maybe you can try an newer one? They are available on Hikvision site
Well, I’ve already tried running hikvision-doorbell with SDK V6.1.9.4_build20220412 taken from the site, and sadly, I see no difference.
Hmm, nothing we can do about it then?
Yeah, it seems so. Thank you for the quick feedback!
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Hi Guys, i tried now again all steps and it seems working. Attached my screenshot.
BUT i can’t see any entities, button or switches in the device and settings.
I got the camera stream in a second way by a generic camera add on and the “Open Door Button” by the hikvision cloud integration. So in the last steps i just searching a way to get the Door Bell ringing tone and a way to speak with my guests ;-p
Is there a way i just can’t see? or a problem with fabios integration ? Hope ypu can help me!
Look on your dev tools or mqtt integration, they should be there… Check also with mqtt explorer
Seems you are locked in your doorbell? Maybe reboot it
Can you check with mqtt explorer, the entities should be there, make sure also to turn on auto discover, I believe it’s a setting on your mqtt broker
I think the same but i’m to new in Home Assistant to know what exactly is my mistake and how i can check that. I have different mqtt entities. For example my Heatpump. There is everything fine and i see the whole setup and entites. also in the mqtt explorer but with your integreation i am completely confused. I can’t see anything and i dont know what i have to integrate in the mqtt explorer (for example which Ip Adress i have to use in the explorer) I tried know to make everything new in my setup but i can’t still see any buttons ot entities. Every Logins in the mqtt explorer i tried dont show me any results but why i can see the right devices that are connected. See the following picture again.
You can install mqtt explorer and browse your mqtt broker, the same way you use the addon to connect to the mqtt broker…
I still don’t understand your setup, dont know why you need 2 brokers… Maybe try to setup 1 broker only