Looking for feedback and testing of my Dahua Home Assistant integration (via HACS)
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got around to finally installing the integration. trying out the overlay text from HA to 1 specific camera. it works! within 0.2 seconds at that! now to figure out how to bring the temperature from entity ID sensor.ambient_weather_station_temp over into the Dahua integration text field.
I'll go for a long shot. Could this integration add in Entity ID's from Home Assistant in one of the TEXT customer overlay fields? Otherwise...I (and others) may have to learn templating or scripting.
Sorry, I'm not following. What exactly are you trying to do? That might help me understand.
Trying to bring over my Ambient weather station's Entity ID of "Ambient Weather Station_Temp" into the Dahua camera integration so it will display Temp. But I am sure other folks would want to bring in wind speed, humidity, etc from their weather station or even from cloud weather stations. I am no good yet with YAML, scripts, or templates. Or even other entities such as "front lights on" or "motion detected" from a home alarm system. Just need to be able to include Home Assistant entity ID's.
That's not something that should be added to the Dahua integration. That's all totally doable with a Home Assistant automation. You'd just setup an automation to trigger on whatever you want, could even be time, and call the service to set the overlay based on the reading of your weather station
ah yes. I forgot the regular automation. With all the new versions of late, I forgot they made things....easier. I'll give that a shot.
Just so I am on the right track.. I can somehow enter in a entity value into the text overlay fields? I have some research to do this weekend. Or is this more of a YAML job?
groovejumper
n3wb
This is very cool, thanks for this!! I'm in the process of installing my VTO and stumbled on this, which is the glue I was looking for (integrate the button on the VTO with a shelly that will ring the old-school doorbell).
One question - In the entities list, I have "DoorBell Button Pressed", which flicks on & off when someone presses the button (though it doesn't appear to stay on while the button is pressed but that's ok, I can add a timer to my automation). In automation triggers, I have "DoorBell Button Pressed started detecting sound" and "DoorBell Button Pressed stopped detecting sound". I'm not really sure what those mean? I used the first one as the trigger and it works fine, but the "started/stopped detecting sound" is throwing me off.
One question - In the entities list, I have "DoorBell Button Pressed", which flicks on & off when someone presses the button (though it doesn't appear to stay on while the button is pressed but that's ok, I can add a timer to my automation). In automation triggers, I have "DoorBell Button Pressed started detecting sound" and "DoorBell Button Pressed stopped detecting sound". I'm not really sure what those mean? I used the first one as the trigger and it works fine, but the "started/stopped detecting sound" is throwing me off.
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I can confirm (not surprisingly), that this is working on the 5231/2231 and 4231FP-AS cameras as well.
Thanks for the great integration. Hopefully this can make its way to official!
Thanks for the great integration. Hopefully this can make its way to official!
I was able to succesfully use your integration for an Amcrest AD410 video doorbell.This is the initial release, you’ll have to manually add the repo to your HACS integration until it’s officially added (that’s pending a PR review)
It doesn’t support PTZ yet becaise I don’t have a cam to test with.
Seeking feedback on anything that’s broke and missing features/services you’d like to have built in. Thanks!!!
GitHub - rroller/dahua: Dahua Camera and Doorbell Home Assistant Integration
Dahua Camera and Doorbell Home Assistant Integration - rroller/dahuagithub.com
Only how am I supposed now to add an automation to get ie. a notification when the doorbell button gets triggered?
Are you using Blue Iris at all? Or going straight from doorbell camera to home assistant?I was able to succesfully use your integration for an Amcrest AD410 video doorbell.
Only how am I supposed now to add an automation to get ie. a notification when the doorbell button gets triggered?
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I still gotta tinker with the doorbell part of this integration. Very cool you added triggers to entities as that solves the 'need doorbell chime to work as a regular doorbell'. I 1/2 finished running 8" speakers in all rooms just for general notifications. I'll have some kind of sound play (doorbell sound or British butler sound or something) through all speakers when VTO button is pushed.
yep! That worked for me. Added the VTO to the integration. Setup a new automation so that when VTO button is pressed, my S2 siren does a doorbell sound AND turns on my smart tv with UI3 running so I can immediately see who is there. I love this integration! Just makes things sooooo much easier.
simply amazing this integration has solved a couple years worth of " I wish it could do this or that without needing to be a brain surgeon"
groovejumper
n3wb
Yep agreed! This integration is sweet...yep! That worked for me. Added the VTO to the integration. Setup a new automation so that when VTO button is pressed, my S2 siren does a doorbell sound AND turns on my smart tv with UI3 running so I can immediately see who is there. I love this integration! Just makes things sooooo much easier.
simply amazing this integration has solved a couple years worth of " I wish it could do this or that without needing to be a brain surgeon"
I have my VTO in BI for 24/7 recording, as well as motion detection which sends me alerts.
Then I also have it in the HA integration so I can have the feed on a dashboard page, and I have an automation that triggers on the button press - this then fires off the old-style doorbell and throws a popup alert on my TV with a snapshot.
For the doorbell, I took out the old button outside and wired it straight through, and put a Shelly 1 running ESPHome behind the transformer.
Here's the automation:
YAML:
alias: Synch Doorbell
description: ''
trigger:
- type: sound
platform: device
device_id: 97d81882261f35c08b40b13f859c66d0
entity_id: binary_sensor.doorbell_button_pressed
domain: binary_sensor
condition: []
action:
- type: turn_on
device_id: 58402c5f3c20cfa5ce5f03f16fd146a9
entity_id: switch.doorbell_relay1
domain: switch
- service: camera.snapshot
target:
entity_id: camera.doorbell_main
data:
filename: /config/www/tmp/Visitor_alert.jpg
- service: notify.livingroomtv
data:
message: Someone's at the door !!!
title: Front Door
data:
duration: 20
fontsize: max
position: bottom-right
transparency: 50%
color: grey
interrupt: 1
file:
path: /config/www/tmp/Visitor_alert.jpg
- service: delete.file
data:
file: /config/www/tmp/Visitor_alert.jpg
mode: singleare you actually using YAML to program everything? I am using the GUI as seen in the pic above.
groovejumper
n3wb
I usually start with the GUI editor especially for simpler tasks, the auto-complete helps. But then when it comes to tweaking and debugging, I do it straight in the YAML. Fortunately you can switch back and forth as needed.