deadbeef3137/dahuavto2mqtt

Dahua Video Intercom VTO&VTH Series integration for MQTT comunication in Home Assistant.

DahuaVTO2MQTT

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

Dahua VTO MQTT Events - examples

How to install

Docker Compose

version: '2'
services:
  dahuavto2mqtt:
    image: "eladbar/dahuavto2mqtt:latest"
    container_name: "dahuavto2mqtt"
    hostname: "dahuavto2mqtt"
    restart: always
    environment:
      - DAHUA_VTO_HOST=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
      - DEBUG=False

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
DEBUG	false	-	Enable debug log messages

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

Changelog

• 2022-Jan-20 - MQTT Broker reconnect after 60 seconds

• 2022-Jan-07

  • Restructure code (2 clients - Dahua and MQTT)
  • Added support to mute call once ring using topic DahuaVTO/Command/Mute

• 2021-Dec-11

  • Changed MQTT Client to Mosquitto\Client

  • Use one connection with keep alive

  • Update MQTT Events

• 2020-Oct-21 - Reverted connection to per message, docker based image changed to php:7.4.11-cli

• 2020-Oct-12 - Added deviceType and serialNumber to MQTT message's payload, Improved connection to one time instead of per message

• 2020-Sep-04 - Edit Readme file, Added Supported Models and MQTT Events documentation

• 2020-Mar-27 - Added new environment variable - MQTT_BROKER_TOPIC_PREFIX

• 2020-Feb-03 - Initial version combing the event listener with MQTT

• 2021-Jan-01 - Ported to Python

• 2021-Jan-02 - MQTT Keep Alive, log level control via DEBUG env. variable

• 2021-Jan-15 - Fix #19 - Reset connection after power failure or disconnection

• 2021-Jan-21

  • Added open door action when publishing an MQTT message with the topic - {MQTT_BROKER_TOPIC_PREFIX}/Command/Open

  • Reset connection when server sends EOF message gracefully instead of WARNING asyncio socket.send() raised exception

• 2021-04-22

  • Fix Invalid syntax in DahuaVTO.py line 117 #41

  • Added support for Door ID in DahuaVTO/Command/Open MQTT command #29

• 2021-04-23

  • Fix Open Door error

• 2021-04-24

  • Removed certificate verification when using SSL #31

• 2021-04-30

  • Changed MQTT message published log level to DEBUG
  • Fix DahuaVTOClient doesn't handle packets larger than Ethernet frame #37

• 2021-05-27

  • Added Lock State status to prevent duplicate attempts of unlock (which led to error log message since the unit didn't allow that operation)
  • Publish MQTT message with the lock status, more details in the Dahua VTO MQTT Events - examples section
  • SSL support using new environment variable DAHUA_VTO_SSL

• 2021-05-28

  • All requests to Dahua unit are using socket (except open lock)

Credits

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