Hikvision Intergration

Configuration
1

Good day,

I am following the docs for the Hikvision Intergration here: https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/hikvision/

However I do not seem to be coming right.

I have added the following to my config file:

- platform: hikvision
  host: 192.168.1.65
  port: 80
  ssl: false
  username: "admin"
  password: "1234"
  customize:
    motion:
      delay: 30
    line_crossing:
      ignored: true

but when I go to check my config I get the following error:

Platform error sensor.hikvision - No module named ‘homeassistant.components.hikvision.sensor’

This leads me to think I have not installed the integration, however, I cannot find it on the integration list or on HACS?

What am I missing here?

2

I assume you mean configuration.yaml? if so the example documents show:

binary_sensor:
  - platform: hikvision
    host: 192.168.X.X
    port: 80
    ....
    ....

And not:

- platform: hikvision
  host: 192.168.1.65
  port: 80

Can you confirm where you have this yaml placed and if its correctly under the heading of ‘binary_sensor’

3

aah thank you so much, I was being silly, I had added it to my custom sensors.yaml when I see there is a binary_sensors.yaml file which I should have added.

This now works. Thank you very much.

I assume this will only be to access camera events?

How does one show the actual video footage on their dashboard?

4

The above integration is only for sensors via any preconfigured hikvision alarm triggers.

There are multiple different ways to add cctv video streams to home assistant and it’s a large subject, however the first thing you will need to do is discover your RTSP address to access the cameras.

Hikvision would be something like this:

rtsp://user:password@ipaddress:554/Streaming/channels/101

Where:
101 means stream 1 main stream
102 means stream 1 sub stream
201 means stream 2 main stream
Etc

5

Ok awesome, Then once I have established that what do I do?

Will this then work when I am not home? I assume not due to the local rstp IP address or will HA dashboard be smart and re-stream it up via the cloud link?

6

Add them to home assistant:

If you have access to your home assistant instance remotely, yes.