Amcrest Doorbell

[chadlyy]

Amcrest Doorbell works great with this by the way. Can you add a doorbell sensor too?

[MYeager1967]

Exactly how are you using this with the doorbell? Can you set something up to monitor for motion start/stop events? I'm trying to figure out how to do it...

[blademckain]

i think, the Doorbell create a specific event ( CallNoAnswered / IgnoreInvite ) when someone push the button
best is to have a binary sensor ( ON/OFF ) that trigger when someone push the button

[FrnchFrgg]

Indeed, and I use these events for automation in HA.

[pixeldoc2000]

See #137 and #162

[PanicRide]

FYI... now that the doorbell button press events work, I tried to add it to Home Assistant's integration, but it got rejected because it would require a change to the YAML config schema. The integration needs to be overhauled to support the new UI config flows before such features can be added. :(

home-assistant/core#66302

However, you can still manually subscribe to the event with an automation trigger, or by setting up your own template binary sensor to listen for this event:

platform: event
event_type: amcrest
event_data:
  camera: <AMCREST DEVICE FRIENDLY NAME>
  event: CallNoAnswered
  payload:
    action: Start

[camrun91]

@PanicRide do you know if anyone is going to be updating the amcrest stuff in homeassistant so we can take advantage of this?

[MYeager1967]

I resorted to writing my own routines to interact with the event stream and relay what I needed to HA via MQTT. Easier that waiting for someone to rewrite and integration and I have control over it. Don't have to worry about it breaking due to a change in HA somewhere.