I have never messed with blue iris because I don't like running windows boxes if I can help it. It should do pretty much the same as deepstack though. So far frigate has done wonders for me. There is a docker image that you can use to test with. Configurations are still done in YAML but if you mess with home assistant it's not difficult. It's actively being worked on and the dev is very active in the home assistant forums. Good luck getting a coral if you decide to stick with it though. Mouser isn't shipping USB ones till April of next year, they occasionally pop up on other sites. There are a couple of youtube videos that go over it from MostlyChris and Digiblur. You can really go off the deep end with what Linus tech Tips is planning to use frigate and doubletake for. I am using double-take to run facial recognition too and they make a crazy powerful paring especially with home assistant. It's why I am really wanting to capture button presses and see if I can access the speaker on the DB1 from Onvif or other means to use home assistant to play pre-recorded messages as the app is a little slow sometimes. Frigate usually gets a hit as soon as the person steps onto my property, pops up a moment later on my google home hub or plays the announcement on my google home speakers and I usually have the app loaded up before they can hit the button causing even more issues when the call tries to come through when I already have the app open.
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I have never messed with blue iris because I don't like running windows boxes if I can help it. It should do pretty much the same as deepstack though. So far frigate has done wonders for me. There is a docker image that you can use to test with. Configurations are still done in YAML but if you mess with home assistant it's not difficult. It's actively being worked on and the dev is very active in the home assistant forums. Good luck getting a coral if you decide to stick with it though. Mouser isn't shipping USB ones till April of next year, they occasionally pop up on other sites. There are a couple of youtube videos that go over it from MostlyChris and Digiblur. You can really go off the deep end with what Linus tech Tips is planning to use frigate and doubletake for. I am using double-take to run facial recognition too and they make a crazy powerful paring especially with home assistant. It's why I am really wanting to capture button presses and see if I can access the speaker on the DB1 from Onvif or other means to use home assistant to play pre-recorded messages as the app is a little slow sometimes. Frigate usually gets a hit as soon as the person steps onto my property, pops up a moment later on my google home hub or plays the announcement on my google home speakers and I usually have the app loaded up before they can hit the button causing even more issues when the call tries to come through when I already have the app open.
Thank you @Duh987
Installed on the Zoneminder box. Been testing some Hikvision camera boards (3) which are tacked to a wall next to the servers. Not in a rush to get the USB board...
These are generic boards and the firmware does have AI recognition from what I can see with batch configuration. I also installed one of these boards in one of the Optex combo cameras I have.
Installed on the Zoneminder box. Been testing some Hikvision camera boards (3) which are tacked to a wall next to the servers. Not in a rush to get the USB board...
These are generic boards and the firmware does have AI recognition from what I can see with batch configuration. I also installed one of these boards in one of the Optex combo cameras I have.
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What user/password am I supposed to use setting up the home assistant onvif integration? I may have messed up here and not saved the user/password combination that I made in when I set up ONVIF on the doorbell. I am using the default admin/password combination for the doorbell which the home assistant integration seems to have accepted coming back at me with one device and 5 entities? How can I safely reset, by the way, some times it takes a second run at a set up to feel confident you did it right?
Well I guess you probably thought of this already and its quite hacky but the android application seems pretty responsive in terms of notifications which tasker could respond to in whatever way you decide(perhaps a webhook). You would need an instance of android running somehow /old phone/emulator/docker. The firewall sniffing suggestion I read way back seems just as hacky
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What user/password am I supposed to use setting up the home assistant onvif integration?
Personally I use the admin password I configured in Batch Configuration. It is the same to access ONVIF integration.
Here is the Windows ONVIF manager program. Note the users / passwords are the same as Batch Configuration.
Home Assistant ONVIF Configuration:
Just add ONVIF device and put in the IP of the doorbell...
Personally I use the admin password I configured in Batch Configuration. It is the same to access ONVIF integration.
Here is the Windows ONVIF manager program. Note the users / passwords are the same as Batch Configuration.
Home Assistant ONVIF Configuration:
Just add ONVIF device and put in the IP of the doorbell...
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The DNS scraper is probably a little easier with home assistant but yeah, I wish they just exposed the button.
anyone installed new firmware? Today my ezviz db1 updated automatically to 211011 and i lost the onvif option. So i put it back to 200321 but i tough it was strange that the hik fimware would see an eviz fimware update. But the install went without noticing untill I noticed that onvif stopt working with home assistant. Anyone else having this and could we also expect an new hikvision firmware would be nice
Thank you for posting this. So EZVIZ has an EU Cloud which is different from the US Cloud. I do not have an EZVIZ Doorbell, I have the LaView version but I do run the EZVIZ App. You need to turn Off Device Auto Upgrade...it is under General Settings...
Well looks like both US and EU sites have the same firmware 211011 posted (Last-Modified) date Nov. 01, 2021 (file date Oct. 31, 2021)
EU Site:
US Site:
One thing I noticed is the filesize is the same as the Build 200904 from Oct. 21, 2020
My Collection:
EZVIZ firmware's for the EZVIZ DB1 Doorbell have the same filenames.
This does not mean they are the same file, but interesting that their size is the same. Since most here run the Hikvision firmware on their DB1, only someone running 200904 and upgrading to 211011 would be able to tell us the difference...
EU Site:
US Site:
One thing I noticed is the filesize is the same as the Build 200904 from Oct. 21, 2020
My Collection:
EZVIZ firmware's for the EZVIZ DB1 Doorbell have the same filenames.
This does not mean they are the same file, but interesting that their size is the same. Since most here run the Hikvision firmware on their DB1, only someone running 200904 and upgrading to 211011 would be able to tell us the difference...
thanks. I dont see an device auto upgrade function in the ezviz app i dont even see a menu item General option or in dutch algemene instellingen.
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Yeah, guessing different version...You should be able to stop App updates in your phone.
Forgive me for asking but you stated you have a DB1 right, not the newer DB1C correct?
Reason I ask a DB1C owner stated they got the same firmware build # 211011 update in their EZVIZ App...
Review: EZVIZ DB1C
Using the db1c for a week now with mixed emotions. My goal was to have a video doorbell with RTMP stream to Home assistant / BI and have it connected to the EZVIZ Chime 2 (I had the kit with doorbel, 12V power converter and chime). I did the set up installing, added the doorbell to the app and...
my db1 got 211011Forgive me for asking but you stated you have a DB1 right, not the newer DB1C correct?
Reason I ask a DB1C owner stated they got the same firmware build # 211011 update in their EZVIZ App...
Review: EZVIZ DB1C
Using the db1c for a week now with mixed emotions. My goal was to have a video doorbell with RTMP stream to Home assistant / BI and have it connected to the EZVIZ Chime 2 (I had the kit with doorbel, 12V power converter and chime). I did the set up installing, added the doorbell to the app and...ipcamtalk.com
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Hello, I own a DB1 for almost 2 years now. Always working perfectly but 2 days ago it asked to upgrade the firmware. I did this and it failed (got an error it was not possible the upgrade).
Immediately the device appeared offline in my app.
I shut the power for always 12 hours and put it back on... Nothing. The doorbell is working (the mechanical chime rings when it is pushed and it rings outside).
I tried to reset it. Got a message: reset succesfully. It turn red and a few seconds later, solid blue... But not flashing blue. So it's not possible to get to wifi AP mode..
I never installed any other firmware.
I cannot get it back in the app (I removed it), but however the doorbell is connected to my netwerk at local ip: 192.168.0.10
What else can I do to get the doorbell back in my app and get it reconfigured?
Thanks
Immediately the device appeared offline in my app.
I shut the power for always 12 hours and put it back on... Nothing. The doorbell is working (the mechanical chime rings when it is pushed and it rings outside).
I tried to reset it. Got a message: reset succesfully. It turn red and a few seconds later, solid blue... But not flashing blue. So it's not possible to get to wifi AP mode..
I never installed any other firmware.
I cannot get it back in the app (I removed it), but however the doorbell is connected to my netwerk at local ip: 192.168.0.10
What else can I do to get the doorbell back in my app and get it reconfigured?
Thanks
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I have a DB1C, and have been prompted to install a firmware update. I'm in the UK.
I'm reluctant to upgrade in case it breaks anything (particularly the RTSP stream, which I use with Blue Iris). Has anyone upgraded the DB1C and can provide any feedback on whether it (a) offers any improvements and (b) breaks any existing functionality?
I'm reluctant to upgrade in case it breaks anything (particularly the RTSP stream, which I use with Blue Iris). Has anyone upgraded the DB1C and can provide any feedback on whether it (a) offers any improvements and (b) breaks any existing functionality?
Hmm interesting I dont see my onvif user under the user dialog however it is working with in Home assistant so perhaps I just used the admin account when I set up the onvif integration and when adding onvif using batch config.
I noticed the framerate is quite low in the the image provided my the home assistant integration. Is that something that i have to change in home assistant, the integration or at the doorbell camera itself?
I thought I would try and give a little back with my use case. So I will drop my set up right here:
After I set up the camera and got onvif working courtesy of the kind kind folks on this forum I used the home assistant onvif integration to pull it into home assistant. The motion eye addon Home Assistant Community Add-on: motionEye and integration(which is a separate thing from the addon) motionEye. can also be used to pull the image along with any other cameras you might have into home assistant. I preferred the onvif integration because it gave me pretty decent binary sensors for motion in which I could automate/script off.
From there I used CATT to cast my home assistant dashboard(I found the home assistant built in cast service to be lacking) Using CATT
I then used the custom integration Browser_mod - turn your browser into a controllable device, and a media_player to navigate the dashboard that is cast on the google screen device.
So if somebody currently triggers the onvif sensor my google screen device switches tabs to a tab that contains a card of the video doorbell video.
Todo: IDK maybe a sensor on the chime to detect doorbell presses?
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Hmm interesting I dont see my onvif user under the user dialog however it is working with in Home assistant so perhaps I just used the admin account when I set up the onvif integration and when adding onvif using batch config.
I just used the admin account for setting up HA / Hikvision / ONVIF. I see the same three accounts I set up using the ONVIF configuration software.
I noticed the framerate is quite low in the the image provided my the home assistant integration. Is that something that i have to change in home assistant, the integration or at the doorbell camera itself?
The framerate is low at around 15 Fps (for me) because it is WiFi (whether 2.4 / 5).
Using MonoCam here for the Alexa Show devices. It is just an app that does a reverse proxy on the camera stream. It is slow on Alexa Show. A direct connection using the Amazon Show browser (thinking that it is Amazon Silk) is much faster.
Relating to DB presses here way back integrated my doorbell to my OmniPro 2 alarm panel using two Elk circuit boards (Elk 960-930). One board triggers via amperage flow and the other board is a debounce board). I could not get the amperage flow board to work right and initially went to a reed sensor inside of the doorbell chime then went to a digital flow sensor with a NC/NO switch on it. It works fine for me today.
These sensors are on Amazon for less than $20. You just pull the AC LV power lines through them and adjust the trigger such that when someone rings the DB the current flow triggers the NC/NO switch. If you are using Tasmota WiFi stuff you can trigger an Tasmota ESP01 and use the MQTT stuff in HA.
I just used the admin account for setting up HA / Hikvision / ONVIF. I see the same three accounts I set up using the ONVIF configuration software.
I noticed the framerate is quite low in the the image provided my the home assistant integration. Is that something that i have to change in home assistant, the integration or at the doorbell camera itself?
The framerate is low at around 15 Fps (for me) because it is WiFi (whether 2.4 / 5).
Using MonoCam here for the Alexa Show devices. It is just an app that does a reverse proxy on the camera stream. It is slow on Alexa Show. A direct connection using the Amazon Show browser (thinking that it is Amazon Silk) is much faster.
Relating to DB presses here way back integrated my doorbell to my OmniPro 2 alarm panel using two Elk circuit boards (Elk 960-930). One board triggers via amperage flow and the other board is a debounce board). I could not get the amperage flow board to work right and initially went to a reed sensor inside of the doorbell chime then went to a digital flow sensor with a NC/NO switch on it. It works fine for me today.
These sensors are on Amazon for less than $20. You just pull the AC LV power lines through them and adjust the trigger such that when someone rings the DB the current flow triggers the NC/NO switch. If you are using Tasmota WiFi stuff you can trigger an Tasmota ESP01 and use the MQTT stuff in HA.
Browser_mod had some way to call a camera too but I was more interested in switching the tabs in the dashboard
Seems more like bad security footage from 1995 where the assailant is teleporting around the convenience store. Im using the camera stream provided with the onvif integration
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camera.hsdb2_mainstreamare u using any special options for the onvif integration?