baudneo / dahuavto2mqtt

DahuaVTO2MQTT Image with some improvements specifically for the lorex 2k doorbell.

DahuaVTO2MQTT

Listens to events from all Dahua devices - VTO, Camera, NVR unit and publishes them via MQTT Message

Change log

Dahua VTO MQTT Events - examples

Supported Models

Notes

• Lorex 2k Doorbell username is always admin
• Lorex 2k Doorbell password is whatever you set it to in the lorex mobile app

How to install

Docker Compose

#version: '3'
services:
  dahuavto2mqtt:
    image: "baudneo/dahuavto2mqtt:latest"
    container_name: "dahuavto2mqtt"
    hostname: "dahuavto2mqtt"
    restart: "unless-stopped"
    environment:
      DAHUA_VTO_HOST: ip.of.vto.host
      DAHUA_VTO_USERNAME: Username
      DAHUA_VTO_PASSWORD: Password
      MQTT_BROKER_HOST: mqtt-host
      MQTT_BROKER_PORT: 1883
      MQTT_BROKER_USERNAME: Username
      MQTT_BROKER_PASSWORD: Password 
      MQTT_BROKER_TOPIC_PREFIX: DahuaVTO
      MQTT_BROKER_CLIENT_ID: DahuaVTO2MQTT
      MQTT_DEBUG: False
      API_DEBUG: False
      KEEPALIVE_DEBUG: False
      TZ: America/Chicago

Copy the above code into a file called docker-compose.yml and run docker-compose up -d in the same directory as the file. For logs, run docker-compose logs -f (Ctrl+C to exit logs) in the same directory as the file.

Environment Variables

Variable	Default	Required	Description
DAHUA_VTO_HOST	-	+	Dahua VTO hostname or IP
DAHUA_VTO_USERNAME	-	+	Dahua VTO user name
DAHUA_VTO_PASSWORD	-	+	Dahua VTO password
MQTT_BROKER_HOST	-	+	MQTT Broker hostname or IP
MQTT_BROKER_PORT	-	+	MQTT Broker port
MQTT_BROKER_USERNAME	-	+	MQTT Broker user name
MQTT_BROKER_PASSWORD	-	+	MQTT Broker password
MQTT_BROKER_TOPIC_PREFIX	DahuaVTO	-	Topic to publish messages
MQTT_BROKER_CLIENT_ID	DahuaVTO2MQTT	-	MQTT Broker client ID
API_DEBUG	false	-	Enable debug log messages for the connection to the VTO device
MQTT_DEBUG	false	-	Enable debug log messages for the connection to the MQTT broker
KEEPALIVE_DEBUG	false	-	Enable debug log messages for keepalive packets
TZ	America/Chicago	-	Timezone for proper logging timestamp

Commands

Open Door

By publishing MQTT message of {MQTT_BROKER_TOPIC_PREFIX}/Command/Open an HTTP request to the unit will be sent, If the payload of the message is empty, default door to open is 1, If unit supports more than 1 door, please add to the payload Door parameter with the number of the door

Home Assistant automations

Doorbell press

If you changed the dahua topic (env: MQTT_BROKER_TOPIC_PREFIX), make sure to edit it from the below images: DahuaVTO/.

lorex2k doorbell

Person detected

lorex2k doorbell

Credits

• Elad Bar - elad-bar - DahuaVTO2MQTT

All credits goes to @riogrande who wrote that complicated integration Original code can be found in @riogrande75/Dahua

dahuavto2mqtt's Issues

Does this this still work with Lorex 2K doorbells?

Trying to get anything working with a Lorex 2K doorbell (fw 1.000.010000000.8.R.20220903) and I tried this container from an HA thread. Building seems OK, but upon startup, it seems to error out and bootloops.

Update to using Paho MQTT v2 API calls

Request to update code to use the new Paho MQTT v2 API calls.

I have taken my uneducated attempt at changing the code here: https://github.com/esand/dahuavto2mqtt.

The reason codes changed from a straight int to a ReasonCode type which can be an int, or a list/dict of ints for multiple codes. Supposedly you can use .getName() to get the text description for the code(s), so I modified the code to remove the call to the const list of defined error codes. My understanding of Python is zero though, so I'm not sure if I did it right or not 😄

My hope is that the work I did in my fork helps you in updating your repo correctly.