Ken Guest

It seems someone mistook the lens part of my video-doorbell as the push-button part and pressed hard enough to break it, so am looking to replace it - it's the doorbell at https://www.aliexpress.com/item/4001286888185.html - never thought I'd have to consider the durability of a doorbell in this regard before.

Looking for something that'll integrate better into #homeassistant a bit better than this one - I'm using the Home Assistant Companion app to relay notifications from the doorbell app to HA and act upon them.

Feb 22, 2023 at 5:38pmWeb
Show threadNick McGillFeb 22, 2023

@kenguest I don't have such a thing but given that reolink cameras seem to be working with homeassistant out of the box, maybe that's worth a look.

Just a thought.

Show threadBrad Has Moved!Feb 22, 2023
@kenguest I’m after a Reolink one, but the Wi-Fi model is out of stock.
Show threadUnixorn - 90% Snark by weightFeb 24, 2023

@kenguest @HomeAssistant #HomeAssistant

I have an Amcrest 410 I'm pretty happy with. It's wifi and powered by the preexisting doorbell circuit so no hassling with batteries.

I did have to use their app to set it up, but I run https://github.com/dchesterton/amcrest2mqtt in a docker container to scrape its local API and relay the state to HA via #mqtt.

There's an outstanding PR to make it work correctly with human detection events at https://github.com/dchesterton/amcrest2mqtt/pull/91 - I baked it into unixorn/amcrest410-2-mqtt

GitHub - dchesterton/amcrest2mqtt: Expose all events from an Amcrest device to an MQTT broker

Expose all events from an Amcrest device to an MQTT broker - dchesterton/amcrest2mqtt

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