Like many of you, we hit a wall trying to get VicoHome cameras properly integrated. After some reverse engineering of their cloud API, we put together a small, unofficial custom integration for Home Assistant.
Current status:
Running stable on our own instance (HA 2026.3.4, Docker)
CG1 confirmed working
Other VicoHome models completely untested
Early stage — not on HACS default store yet
What it does:
Camera entity showing the latest event snapshot (cloud-polling)
Event sensors (count + last event details)
Optional Telegram notifications with photo + video
No local stream / WebRTC / RTSP (VicoHome doesn’t expose this)
No live view — strictly cloud-based via their API
We’re looking for a small handful of beta testers
If you have a VicoHome camera and don’t mind installing a custom component manually (or adding a temporary HACS custom repo), we’d love your feedback. Especially interested if someone has a model other than CG1 — we have no idea if the API behaves the same across devices.
I just got my VIcoHome Athovision G42 smart bird feeder out of the box and am setting it up now. I'm up for providing some feedback in your beta test.
App motion detection is any motion. I would like to feed it through HA to limit notifications to only when its a bird using an AI query as I have no plan to use their paid services.
Hello @hoffdad and @mariosoliman, thx for the interest I will invite you but i guess, i need your mail or something other from github to invite you to my projekt. Or what is the right way to share this with specific people?
@TomTje Have been enjoying it so far. It works well for what I need. I do have one question. I have two cameras connected to the same account. Is there a way to integrate multiple instances of the same account each instance with a specific device?
I have this up and running and I get snapshot photos and all sensors appear to be functioning.
Camera Model is: CG625E-TN2
Forgive my ignorance its my first time using Telegram.
I do have a bot and it is set to download video.
In the bot token can I just use the same one, or is there a process to create for HA?
In the Recipient ID - what is put in here? The username? With or Without “@”
Thanks for any help…
Actually using this download the videos into blueiris so I can AI them. I use this camera purely for capturing license plates ;)…Well I will if this works.
OK I figured it out you have to get your ID. You can get this by chatting with @userinfobot
Unfortunately it is only retrieving the image and not the video. I assume this is only available to people that pay for the service
I do have a local storage card, would be great if it could pull that…
I would like to participate, i have one of the vico cameras currently and i would love to integrate it with my home assistant and home server. with this integration working as it seems to, I can comfortably add more of these cameras to my system.
Running stable on our own instance (HA 2026.3.4, Docker)
Other VicoHome models completely untested
Early stage — not on HACS default store yet
Camera entity showing the latest event snapshot (cloud-polling)
Event sensors (count + last event details)
Optional Telegram notifications with photo + video
Adjustable polling interval, notification toggle, config flow setup
I have two Vico Home cameras. Let me know how I can get access, thanks!
I will invite you but i guess, i need your mail or something other from github to invite you to my projekt. Or what is the right way to share this with specific people?
