Good to hear you got it resolved, maybe I'll pick one up to play with (I have the first gen (RCA, Clare, etc) Hikvision. I've been using my RTL for monitoring airplanes in the area (though traffic is way down now) and my brother is a HAM and plays with it for radio, not sure what software he uses.
Good to hear you got it resolved, maybe I'll pick one up to play with (I have the first gen (RCA, Clare, etc) Hikvision. I've been using my RTL for monitoring airplanes in the area (though traffic is way down now) and my brother is a HAM and plays with it for radio, not sure what software he uses.
* UPDATE *
Upon moving the doorbell back to the front door, the reception is not consistently good, so I need to look at improving the aerial, either on the USB dongle or the doorbell itself.
Has anyone had any experience with this?
For the camera: Locate the antenna, add a cable and an external antenna. Directional if required.
For the dongle:
- change the location
- increase rtl gain
- use a 433 antenna, especially a directional one. The one that came with the dongle usually is not that good
- use a 433mhz bandpass filter to exclude other freqs
Success!!!!
This is my ultimate setup for detecting the Doorbell button press, many thanks to whoami for finding the correct pins on the USB chime.
The essence is fitting a wifi switch which you can control via MQTT or just on / off switching.
This is my ultimate setup for detecting the Doorbell button press, many thanks to whoami for finding the correct pins on the USB chime.
The essence is fitting a wifi switch which you can control via MQTT or just on / off switching.
- Take a Wemos D1 mini, install Tasmota firmware
- Solder wires onto USB chime, +5v, GDN and data
- Connect the +5v and GND wires to the Wemos, which will give the USB chime power
- Connect the data wire to pin D2 on the Wemos
- Plug a USB cable into the Wemos, which will power both units
- In Tasmota config set as per screen shot attached
- In Home Assistant (in my case using Node-RED), set an automation which detects the Wemos turning on
- Sit back and enjoy 100% Doorbell button detection
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And here is the completed doorbell, mounted in my old doorbell chime box, with USB chime and Wemos D1 mini.
To be fair... "if" you install this doorbell as advertized with no modifications or attempts to make it work Blue Iris, Raspberry Pi, a PC or Mac, NVR or DVR and use a smartphone or computer via the internet to set it up and control it, then it works okay. However, like you, I also discovered an internet connection is required for many of the advertised features to work. As a POE video camera only... it works without internet access... but that's where the handshake ends. Its the rest of the features that seem to need the internet.FYI: I have mine connected to one of those questionable Lorex Home Security "kits" (like they well at Sams or Costco). With my installation I do not use the included doorbell 12V power adapter. Mine is connected to the using a single Ethernet cable, from the doorbell, thru a Ubiquiti INS-3AF-I-G adapter , and into a port on the NVR. This gives me 24/7 video captured by my NVR... but thats where my install goes downhill. The date, time, motion alerts, doorbell notifications, 2-way intercom etc etc... do not work without internet access. When connected to the internet via my router, and using the Android app, I am able to set all sorts of features, access, time zones, RTSP etc. , and they work as advertised... but as soon as I disconnect from the router and switch to my wired configuration... all settings and changes I made are "cleared". Even the date time reverts back to 1970/01/01. I can't help but wonder if that disconnect might be the issue when you set the RTSP password. Hopefully another BI user can come to the rescue.
In the meantime... if you haven't already:
Verify you are running the most current version of BI.
When in the Android app... make sure to use the same RTSP password as in BI.
Disable hardware acceleration for the camera.
Hi @Elton Noway,
Thanks for this info. Sorry I'm digging up an older post, but I'm interested in this Yoosee doorbell camera. I don't really need features like correct time stamps or motion alerts or 2-way radio. But I do need a local video stream from the camera (without giving it internet access), and would like to be able to provision it without using an app. Does this thing have a webpage GUI that can be accessed for configuration? Does the RTSP protocol not work unless the doorbell camera has internet access?
Thanks!
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Interesting, when I try your method I don't get any output when pushing the bell button. I see my accurite temp sensor posting updates but not the bell.
I only got it working when testing on my bench (devices next to each other), once I moved it back in situ, it didnt detect it, I was looking at upgrading aerials, but then hit upon a much more reliable solution, see here.
Ok I did the same but I also wired the output of the receiver into pin 3 of the d1 mini. This way I can actually add a 433 library and allow the wemos to eventually detect the signal and not rely on the code hopping chip.
Could you give us more info please, I don't understand what you did and how it works?
Hey Mike,Thanks - I was just reading a post you made on the Yoosee support site.
IPCTestTool - or at least the English-y version V01.00.00.62 - does not seem to be able find my device. Onvif test tool sometimes discovers it. Onvif Device Manager reliably finds it, can query 'capabilities' successfully, but anything else fails. CMSclient keeps throwing Password Errors, but won't allow me to proceed with a blank password.
I was getting frustrated running WireShark - the device just keeps closing TCP connections.... but RTSP streaming (main stream, anyway) works fine to my Dahua NVR.
It's so close..... but so far.
How did you resolve this issue, I was able to see with IPCTestTool not sure which chineese button I pressed now its not coming up in IPCTool and rest as you mentioned in for other apps (same behaviour)