homeassistant.md

Xiaomi Dafang Integration in Home Assistant

On the Home Assistant side

First let's set up your camera stream. Make sure the rtsp service in the Services control panel is running and you can connect to it via a media player (like VLC) using the address rtsp://dafang:8554/unicast.

Then you can integrate the RTSP stream using the FFmpeg Camera component by adding the following lines to your configuration.yaml:

camera:
  - platform: ffmpeg
    name: DaFang3
    input: -rtsp_transport tcp -i rtsp://dafang:8554/unicast

Alternatively, you can use the camera's CGI endpoint to serve a single picture using the Generic IP Camera component. This is significantly lighter on the home assistant's CPU.

camera:
  - platform: generic
    name: DaFang3
    username: root
    password: ismart12
    authentication: basic
    still_image_url: https://dafang/cgi-bin/currentpic.cgi
    verify_ssl: false
    scan_interval: 5

Most other sensors & actors are easily integrated via MQTT Discovery. If everything works, integration looks like this (grouped into one group):

To enable MQTT discovery in Home Assistant please add/adjust in your configuration.yaml:

mqtt:
  broker: localhost
  discovery: true
  discovery_prefix: homeassistant

and restart your Home Assistant instance. MQTT works best if you run your own broker. To make the camera work with Home Assistant's builtin MQTT broker set

MOSQUITTOOPTS="-V mqttv311"

in mqtt.conf.

On the Xiaomi Dafang Camera side

Connect to your camera via SSH (or your preferred FTP client):

ssh root@dafang # default password is ismart12

copy /system/sdcard/config/mqtt.conf.dist to /system/sdcard/config/mqtt.conf:

cp /system/sdcard/config/mqtt.conf.dist /system/sdcard/config/mqtt.conf

Set up your broker, LOCATION and DEVICE_NAME and uncomment AUTODISCOVERY_PREFIX (only then the dafang configurations will be published, IMPORTANT: LOCATION and DEVICE_NAME need to be snake case!):

vi /system/sdcard/config/mqtt.conf

Press i to enter insert mode. Once you are done hit ESC and enter :wq to write your changes.

Restart the mqtt-control & mqtt-status services in the Services control panel to make them pick up on your changes.

In case your Home Assistant needs to be restarted, changes are not persisted in any configuration file and the MQTT discovery configuration has to be resent from the camera. This can be enforced by restarting the mqtt-control service.

To put all the sensors & actors conveniently into one group you can use the following template:

Dafang3:
    - camera.dafang3
    - switch.dafang3_rtsp_server
    - sensor.dafang3
    - device_tracker.dafang3
    - sensor.dafang3_light_sensor
    - switch.dafang3_ir_filter
    - switch.dafang3_ir_led
    - switch.dafang3_night_mode
    - switch.dafang3_night_mode_auto
    - switch.dafang3_blue_led
    - switch.dafang3_yellow_led
    - switch.dafang3_motion_detection
    - switch.dafang3_motion_tracking
    - camera.dafang3_motion_snapshot
    - binary_sensor.dafang3_motion_sensor
    - cover.dafang3_move_left_right
    - cover.dafang3_move_up_down

To set up MQTT motion detection alerts

copy /system/sdcard/config/motion.conf.dist to /system/sdcard/config/motion.conf:

cp /system/sdcard/config/motion.conf.dist /system/sdcard/config/motion.conf

Set up the motion detection via its webinterface.

In motion.conf define how your camera should react on motion events:

vi /system/sdcard/config/motion.conf

For your camera to send MQTT motion detection messages it should be enabled by setting:

publish_mqtt_message=true

To publish the image itself, also set

publish_mqtt_snapshot=true

You should now be getting messages on topic myhome/mycamera/motion and images on myhome/mycamera/motion/snapshot/image while myhome/mycamera/motion/detection is set to ON.

To react on a motion event, in your automations.yaml define something like:

- id: '13370'
  alias: 'Motion detected'
  trigger:
    payload: 'ON'
    platform: mqtt
    topic: myhome/mycamera/motion
  action:
    service: notify.me
    data:
      title: "Motion"
      message: "detected."

For privacy reasons and to reduce the number of unwanted motion detections in surveillance applications, you probably want to turn off motion detection when you or your family is home.

- id: '13372'
  alias: 'Start motion detection when not at home'
  trigger:
    platform: zone
    event: leave
    zone: zone.home
    entity_id: device_tracker.your_device
  action:
    service: switch.turn_on
    data:
      entity_id: switch.mycamera_motion_detection

- id: '13373'
  alias: 'Stop motion detection when at home'
  trigger:
    platform: zone
    event: enter
    zone: zone.home
    entity_id: device_tracker.your_device
  action:
    service: switch.turn_off
    data:
      entity_id: switch.mycamera_motion_detection