Unifi G4 Doorbell

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Hi there,

Just ran into Home Assistant and I was looking to do my first automation.
At home, I’m running an Unifi network, with a NVR with a few camera’s including the G4 doorbell.

Now, this doorbell is connected to a Honeywell chime (DC915) and this has been working pretty well. I also get the proper notifications when someone rings the bell in Unifi Protect.

I looked at these sources, but it doesn’t seem to work:

What am I missing?

However, I have been looking into the Unifi Protect integration, and when I’m integrated, I see the camera feeds, following the description about the RSTP feeds.

On the other hand, I don’t get the notification with a still frame or feed when I ring that bell, even when I import a blueprint for the doorbell.

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So, do you get a binary sensor from the integration that turns on when you press the doorbell? That’s the one you can use to build an automation that notifies you.

3

Hi exxamalta,

I deleted every Unifi integration or automation, added it by using the ‘My button’. I’ve added the following sensors to my homepage to check:

G4 Doorbell Doorbell
G4 Doorbell Doorbell Message
G4 Doorbell Motion
G4 Doorbell High

When I change the message through HA, this works. The stream, ‘doorbell high’, does also work. It’s still when I’m on the homepage but when I open it, it is a livefeed.

Just hit the doorbell, and when I look at the logbook from the doorbell, it says ‘detected’ and shortly after that ‘nothing detected’. That was when I hit the doorbell.

So to me, it looks like the communication between HA and Protect works.

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Great, so the entity named “G4 Doorbell Doorbell” is the one you then have to use to trigger automations that notify you.

For some inspiration, here is an automation that I implemented which shows an image on my TV. In my case the doorbell’s binary sensor is binary_sensor.doorbell, and I happen to have an Android TV that I can check if playing (showing something) and to display a small notification:

alias: Doorbell notify TV
trigger:
  - platform: state
    entity_id: binary_sensor.doorbell
    from: 'off'
    to: 'on'
condition:
  - condition: state
    entity_id: media_player.living_room_tv
    state: playing
action:
  - service: notify.living_room_tv
    data:
      data:
        image:
          url: http://<IP address of doorbell>/snap.jpeg
      message: Doorbell pressed
mode: single
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