homebridge-dahua-alerts

Routes motion alerts for Dahua, Alhua, Amcrest and Lorex camera streams to homebridge-camera-ffmpeg

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This plugin only supports VideoMotion alerts, not any SmartMotion detection. You must disable those features in order for this plugin to work correctly. Please check issue #15 if you have compatible hardware and would like to contribute SmartMotion dectection

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Confirmed working with:

Dahua DVR	Dahua/Amcrest Standalone Camera	Lorex DVR
-	IP3M-943B	-
-	IP5M-B1186EB	-
-	DH-IPC-HDW3641TMP	-
NVR4208-8P	-	-
-	-	LHV1004 DHV
DHI-HCVR4116HS-S3	-	-
DH-XVR5116HS-X	-	-
-	DH-IPC-HDBW4631R-S	-
DHI-NVR4104HS-P-4Ks2	-	-
-	-	NR818
-	N43AJ52-B	-

but lots of Dahua/Lorex NVRs and standalone cameras share this VideoMotion api.

Installation

1. Install Homebridge using the official instructions.
2. Install homebridge-camera-ffmpeg
3. Configure your RTSP streams in homebridge-camera-ffmpeg
   1. Configure "porthttp": 8088 for Http-based Automation](https://sunoo.github.io/homebridge-camera-ffmpeg/automation/http.html)
   2. Configure "motion": true for the camera streams you want motion detection
   3. Configure "motionTimeout": 0 to disable automatically resetting the motion after 1 second default
   4. (Optional) Configure "localhttp": true to ensure HTTP automations only work from same device (for enhanced security)
4. Install homebridge-dahua-alerts.
5. Configure your NVR and camera settings.
   • Ensure you have enabled https or port 443 on your device if you're getting ECONNREFUSED in the debug logs. Not required by all.

Sample config.json

• Configuration for one NVR with multiple cameras

homebridge-camera-ffmpeg

{
    "name": "Camera FFmpeg",
    "porthttp": 8088,
    "localhttp": true,
    "cameras": [
        {
            "name": "Driveway",
            "motion": true,
            "motionTimeout": 0,
            "videoConfig": {
                "source": "-i rtsp://admin:<snip>@192.168.1.XX:554/cam/realmonitor?channel=1&subtype=1"
            }
        },
        {
            "name": "Porch",
            "motion": true,
            "motionTimeout": 0,
            "videoConfig": {
                "source": "-i rtsp://admin:<snip>@192.168.1.XX:554/cam/realmonitor?channel=2&subtype=1"
            }
        },
        {
            "name": "Backdoor",
            "motion": true,
            "motionTimeout": 0,
            "videoConfig": {
                "source": "-i rtsp://admin:<snip>@192.168.1.XX:554/cam/realmonitor?channel=4&subtype=1"
            }
        }
    ],
    "platform": "Camera-ffmpeg"
}

homebridge-dahua-alerts

{
    "cameras": [
        {
            "index": 0,
            "cameraName": "Driveway"
        },
        {
            "index": 1,
            "cameraName": "Porch"
        },
        {
            "index": 3,
            "cameraName": "Backdoor"
        }
    ],
    "homebridgeCameraFfmpegHttpPort": 8088,
    "host": "XX.XX.XX.XX",
    "user": "admin",
    "pass": "XX",
    "platform": "dahua-alerts"
}

• homebridgeCameraFfmpegHttpPort must match the porthttp config in the homebridge-camera-ffmpeg config
• host is the IP of the NVR or camera
• user is username of the NVR or camera
• pass is the password of the NVR or camera
• useHttp (optional) use HTTP instead of HTTPS to connect to host

For each camera you want to monitor, add a new entry to the cameras array.

• index if the camera's channel number substracted by 1 (the index starts from 0, the camera channel starts from 1)
• cameraName must match the name of the camera specified in the homebridge-camera-ffmpeg config

Override Camera Connection Credentials

This is useful if you have standalone IP Camera(s) (not going through an NVR), a mix of IP Cameras and NVR(s), or multiple NVRs.

To define a host/user/pass on a camera simply add the cameraCredentials object. If you have a top level host/user/pass defined, this object will override it.

    "cameras": [
        {
            "index": 0,
            "cameraName": "Driveway"
            "cameraCredentials": {
                    "host": "XX.XX.XX.XX",
                    "user": "admin",
                    "pass": "XX"
            }
        },

• If using a standalone camera, the index will always be 0

Local development

• npm run build to get JS output in dist

Credits

Referenced nayrnet/node-dahua-api for the Dahua/Lorex motion alerts API.