New Xiaomi aqara camera/gateway

sendorm · October 7, 2018, 6:28pm

You beat me to the answer Good luck.

vevs · October 9, 2018, 2:54pm

Sorry, i missed your message. Frankly spoken, I’m a complete zero in MIIO, sorry

phoxy84 · October 10, 2018, 1:21pm

How can I install this on hass.io? I have no ssh access to my Pi3 so cannot sudo install. I can install ffmpeg by creating a line in the configuation.yaml. How can I install Netifaces, python-miio (or are both allready installed with hass.io?) and how can I install videoP2Proxy?

Hope you can help and I can test it

sendorm · October 10, 2018, 4:57pm

I have no information about hass.io. Never used it. Sorry.

puncake · October 14, 2018, 10:28am

Is there anybody who could put together a guide to set this up in hass.io? Ideally both as a camera and a gateway, seems like lots of people could do with the implementation. Thanks!

sebastiaan · October 14, 2018, 6:39pm

I think/hope someone has to make an add-on. Without that is isn’t possible yet.

puncake · October 17, 2018, 10:55pm

How about just as a gateway? How hard would that be to implement?

IamMikl · October 18, 2018, 3:31pm

+1 for at least a gateway for hassio

attackk · October 30, 2018, 3:15am

any news on this camera?

puncake · October 30, 2018, 11:39am

Come on people! What would it take to make this work either as a gateway or camera?

hal9000 · November 13, 2018, 5:36am

For those of you that are running Docker, I just put an image for Arm based systems, like Raspberry Pi on Docker Hub at Arm Docker xiaomi-aqara-rtsp.
If you are running a Linux environment, this guy is where I got the idea, Linux Docker xiaomi-aqara-rtsp.
It’s my first post to Docker Hub, so be gentle, but I’ll try to answer any questions about the install.

Thanks to miguelangel.nubla and sendorm for the inspiration.

sebastiaan · November 13, 2018, 4:52pm

With this, would it be possible to make it a add-on for hassio?

hal9000 · November 13, 2018, 5:11pm

i’m not terribly familiar with making hassio addons, it might be possible to make this work as hassio addon. right now the image is not generic enough, but i’m working on it. give me a week or so and we’ll see what i can do.

puncake · November 24, 2018, 11:12am

Any update on this?

hal9000 · November 25, 2018, 11:34am

puncake I’m still working on it is the short answer. I’m having trouble getting the Dockerfile to compile in the Hassio world.

IamMikl · December 24, 2018, 5:13pm

Did anyone get success with gateway part of this device?

Ozon1969 · December 24, 2018, 9:01pm

ok, got it to work. but… Any idea how one can obtain the pass key needed for Home Assistant (HASS)? This should be a 16 character key

hal9000 · December 25, 2018, 12:32am

@Ozon1969
if you are using the plan laid out in post #113 or #134 then the home assistant config should look like this…
in home assistant config:

camera:
  - platform: ffmpeg
    input: -rtsp_transport tcp -i rtsp://<DOCKER_MACHINE_IP>:8554/

the 16 digit token is needed to get the videop2proxy app to display video via rtsp. the posts above explain the process.
i’ve written a tutorial to get the key in a repo i’ve published for the docker container here.

Ozon1969 · December 25, 2018, 1:06am

Thanks for your reply.
I am however not yet on the path of getting the videop2proxy app to display the video at this point (will go that route later).
At this point I am trying to get the Aqara camera hub to work as a hub in HASS.io
Just like it works in the Middle Home app.

Using the cam that way I need the camera’s pass key. This is a 16 character key.
Since Xiaomi doesn’t support entering developer mode in it’s Mi Home app anymore one can’t get the needed key in a simple way…
I tried the hacked Mi Home app to get into the network settings and that worked. Partially, it gave me a 32 character Token, not the required key…
I tried older versions of the Mi Home app, as suggested heren and in other topics, on my Android phone, tried several using Android emulators in Windows but had no luck. The apps keep crashing when setting the regional settings to mainland China…
I would like the camera (and a few more if it works) to work as a hub for several sensors without the internet dependency to the China servers but it seems to be a dead end. I will keep looking a bit more but if all fails I will choose a different pass using a modified signed sniffer to be the hub of my door and windows sensors.

But if anyone has a working solution to helping me (and many more) out it would be a Christmas present…

hal9000 · December 25, 2018, 4:06am

@Ozon1969

as far as i am aware no one has developed a method for using this device as a gateway in HASS. the HASS component documentation has a note about it…

Unsupported Devices

Xiaomi Aqara Gateway (lumi.gateway.aqhm01), as it is not possible to activate dev mode in the Mi Home App.

i’m not sure that the camera/gateway is that particular model number. the camera/gateway is definitively not the Xiaomi Mijia Gateway (lumi.gateway.v2, lumi.gateway.v3), which is supported by HASS natively.

the new MiHome app doesn’t support developer mode, but the old one used to. the camera/gateway did not support LAN mode even then.

if a device can go into LAN mode the developer menu in MiHome produces the key you need to talk to the device over your local LAN. old versions of MiHome should allow you to activate LAN mode on supported devices. maybe you could get a supported gateway to pair your window and door sensors to.

or i’m using smartthings to pair all my xiaomi devices to. smartthings then uses mqtt to tell HASS what’s going on.

I’m sorry this is not the information you were looking for. i bought the camera/gateway for features you are after. unfortunately it hasn’t panned out. i’ve made it work, though. just not ideally.