Hello Guys,
I have an Reolink E1 Pro and I can’t use ONVIF component of home assistant for move the camera to the desidered preset so I used the Surveillance Station installed on Synology for achieve this.
So if you have a synology you can move all configured camera (PTZ compatible) to the desidered position…
Before to start you have to create some preset in Synology Surveillance Station on the camera:
I have created some preset: Home, Living, Kitchen, Bedroom and Rack
You have to follow this step carefully
- First thing open browser and put this string changing the value with your value
https://your_IP:your_port/webapi/auth.cgi?api=SYNO.API.Auth&method=Login&version=2&account=your_username&passwd=your_password&session=SurveillanceStation&format=cookie
And will be a web page with this similar results
{“data”:{“sid”:“urOZvm591S5A6D9LPN00502”},“success”:true}
- issue the second command for display all information of your cameras in the browser
https://your_IP:your_port/webapi/entry.cgi?api=SYNO.SurveillanceStation.Camera&method=List&version=2
in this page you have to find with CTRL +F “cameraid=” and you will find all the IDs of the cameras configured in the synology, in my case the ID are 4 and 5. so keep a note of these IDs.
- Issue this command in the browser for be sure that the camera id is working
Remember to change cameraid= with your ID
https://your_IP:your_port/webapi/entry.cgi?api=SYNO.SurveillanceStation.Camera&method=GetSnapshot&version=1&cameraId=4×tamp=1571412595&preview=true
and you will see the snapshot of your camera, If you don’t see it repeat the steps from number 1.
- Now we have to acquire the preset names created before (remember to change the cameraid with your ID)
https://your_IP:your_port/webapi/entry.cgi?api=SYNO.SurveillanceStation.PTZ&method=ListPreset&version=1&cameraId=4
In my case the output on the browser is like this:
{“data”:{“offset”:0,“presets”:[{“id”:2,“name”:“Home”,“type”:0},{“id”:8,“name”:“Living”,“type”:0},{“id”:9,“name”:“Kitchen”,“type”:0},{“id”:10,“name”:“Bedroom”,“type”:0},{“id”:11,“name”:“Rack”,“type”:0}],“total”:5},“success”:true}
- now you can change the position of your PTZ camera to the desired preset ID:
for example move the camera to the rack (remember to change cameraid and presetid to your value)
https://your_IP:your_port/webapi/entry.cgi?api=SYNO.SurveillanceStation.PTZ&method=GoPreset&version=1&cameraId=4&presetId=11
and you will see the camera move to your preset :-)… tha’s great… but if you open an incognito tab you will se it don’t work… why? it’s missing the sid!!
- add the sid at the end of the url and test it:
&_sid=aZWZZAKvChwhrsdasda903122
https://your_IP:your_port/webapi/entry.cgi?api=SYNO.SurveillanceStation.PTZ&method=GoPreset&version=1&cameraId=4&presetId=11&_sid=urOZvm591S5A6D9LPN00502
- add to configuration.yaml this parameters:
ss_preset_home:
url: !secret ss_preset_home
method: get
verify_ssl: false
ss_preset_rack:
url: !secret ss_preset_rack
method: get
verify_ssl: false
Add the url to the secret.yaml
ss_preset_home:
ss_preset_rack:
and restart Home assistant
There is the API for setting Home mode ON and OFF too…
Enable Home Mode
https://your_IP:your_port/webapi/entry.cgi?api=SYNO.SurveillanceStation.HomeMode&version=1&method=Switch&on=true&_sid=urOZvm591S5A6D9LPN00502
Disable Home Mode
https://your_IP:your_port/webapi/entry.cgi?api=SYNO.SurveillanceStation.HomeMode&version=1&method=Switch&on=false&_sid=urOZvm591S5A6D9LPN00502
use it in your automation.yaml when you go out or come back to home:
Example:
####################################################
# Nico Out Casetta #
####################################################
- id: zone-nico-out-casetta
alias: Nico is going out - Notification
initial_state: 'on'
trigger:
platform: zone
entity_id: device_tracker.nico_nico
zone: zone.casetta
event: leave
condition:
condition: time
after: '07:00:00'
before: '23:59:00'
action:
- service: notify.hassnico_bot
data:
message: "Nico is going out from Casetta at {{ states('sensor.date_time') }}"
- service: script.alexatraffic2
- service: rest_command.ss_home_off
At Home
####################################################
# Nico Casetta 2 #
####################################################
- id: zone-nico-casetta
alias: Nico at Home 2 - Notification
initial_state: 'on'
trigger:
platform: state
entity_id: device_tracker.nicogalaxys8
from: 'not_home'
to: 'home'
action:
- service: media_player.volume_set
data:
entity_id: media_player.nicolo_s_bose_home_speaker_500
volume_level: 0.3
- delay: 00:00:02
- service: notify.alexa_media
data:
target:
- media_player.nicolo_s_bose_home_speaker_500
data:
type: tts
message: >
{{ [
"Bentornato a casa Nico",
"Nico sei finalmente a casa",
] | random }}
- service: rest_command.ss_home_on
This is how it look on lovelace
At the top left there are Preset for camera… at bottom left Lights and on Bottom right the command for move the camera
more to come… PTZ command