How to Create a DIY IKEA HomeKit Secure Video Doorbell

[@gagandeep1714]

thanks great tutorial , if i use homepod mini as homekit hub , should i keep my mac with local scrypted installed always on... for the rtsp camera to work? including motion trigger

[@JerielRubarajan]

Thanks for the feedback, glad you found it useful! Yup! You will need to keep it always on, Scrypted will need to remain on at all times in order to bridge your RTSP camera’s into HomeKit. Btw I have a new and updated tutorial for getting RTSP Camera’s into Scrypted! kzbin.info/www/bejne/bYaWgGSMnJdgqZY

[@JiSeguin]

Is there some alternatives to using the Ikea button ? Thanks !

[@sungwayu2594]

aqara button works for me

[@sungwayu2594]

actually, no, the aqara button needs a hub

[@Tty85]

Hi, I have a Heimvision Greets C1 video doorbell, Apple TV 4, an old 2010 MacBook Pro running High Sierra. Can you please tell me if I can use all this devices to work with HomeKit, to control my video doorbell using this method from.this video or any other method. Please let me know Merry Christmas! Great video.

[@JerielRubarajan]

Hi! Thanks for the comment, and Merry Christmas to you too! 🎄 I’ve just done a little bit of research and believe only some Heimvision Camera’s support RTSP. If you’re Greets C1 Doorbell does then that’s great, you will be able to. Yes, you can install Scrypted on your 2010 MacBook Pro - what are it’s specs? If you need a video tutorial for how to do that, let me know and I can put one together for you. And you will be able to use your Apple TV as the Home Hub. I’d love to look more into your C1 Doorbell - feel free to join me on Discord and we can keep the conversation going there. :) discord.gg/Ft7pAxwzCd

[@Tty85]

@@JerielRubarajan Thank you for replying back quickly, I have no idea what RTSP is, I can say that I’m using the basic configuration of 2010 mbp (Core2 Duo,2.4 ghz, 4 GB and a SSD from San-disk instead of that 250 GB hdd. Yes, I really want help from you, I don’t really know much about this (how to configure it)

[@Tty85]

@@JerielRubarajan I found a video with the doorbell I’m using it m.kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z32zkmlspbuIhLc

[@Tty85]

No,it doesn’t have RTSP

[@JerielRubarajan]

Ah okay, as it doesn’t support RTSP, are there any other video stream protocols that it does support? Like ONVIF? If not then I’m afraid you won’t be able to use your intercom sadly. You can definitely run Scrypted on your Mac, I would recommend upgrading your RAM, but 4Gb may be sufficient if it’s only Scrypted that your running. Your laptop will need to be on all the time and always connected to the network so I would recommend connecting it to your router/switch via Ethernet.

[@Neemelaid]

Can you do tutorial now? because, scrypted don't look anything like this on the video

[@babelhoo]

I don't have a homepod, I would like to make the doorbell popup the video on my apple TV. I tried this and nothing happens. On Home Assistant's Homekit integration it's just a matter of adding the linked_doorbell_sensor property linked to any switch or sensor, but I would like to achieve the same with Scrypted as it has better response time and much less delay. Thanks

[@babelhoo]

Disregard my question! could make it work, I didnt realized the current version has a "doorbell automation button" on the group's homekit settings.

[@babelhoo]

Spoke too soon. It works, but the camera is not as quick to connect as when pairing the camera directly to HomeKit

[@seanh7946]

Brilliant video, if I use a Hikvision gen 2 intercom, can I completely run off scrypted and HomeKit for remote/outside the home alerting, I’m trying to avoid going thru Hikvision servers, Also - is there any lag from when you press the doorbell and the time it takes to hit your HomeKit alert while inside the house?

[@JerielRubarajan]

Thank you very much! 😁 I’m not too family with the intercoms - but I imagine if you can get an RTSP Stream or ONVIF Support from it, then Scrypted will work like a charm! As far as I’m aware, Scrypted and 2 way audio is still very experimental. But you may be able to receive audio from your HikVision just fine! Definitely check out the Scrypted Discord Server, as you can get a lot of good advice there, I’ll try to find out for you too. I would say that the delay is only about 2-3 seconds from clicking the button to receiving the doorbell notification, but I guess this depends on your network setup. I haven’t timed it but the lag is probably about 5 seconds more when your not on your home network (so when you’re out of your house) The delay can probably be shortened a-lot either by using a ZWave button or Hue Button which Scrypted has plugin support for. Feel free to hit me up on my discord if you want to keep the conversation going! 🙂

[@seanh7946]

@@JerielRubarajan Thanks mate, I’m thinking of how to follow you video but instead of the a separate button use the Hikvision door bell button to trigger the alerts and motion events

[@JerielRubarajan]

Hmmm is there built in MQTT Support with your intercom? Scrypted supports directly talking with MQTT. I was going to suggest using Home Assistant to bridge between the Intercom and Scrypted with a set of automations, but I did a quick Google search and appears that support still isn’t around for intercom into Home Assistant yet. As for motion detection, you can always use the OpenCV Motion Detection Plugin, works great as long as you have a fair amount of CPU to handle it.

[@AhmadNazirAfiq]

the downside for local install of Scrypted is that i have to keep the server running despite installing it on a Pi. Or is there a workaround as I can't install docker as I already have Homebridge on a Pi.

[@JerielRubarajan]

Hi, Regardless of a Local or Docker install of Scrypted, you will have to keep your server running all the time for it to work properly. You could back-up HomeBridge and then reinstall in using Rapsbian Lite and Docker, and then restore the back-up. And then that way you can install Scrypted too (via Docker).

[@JerielRubarajan]

Ah I think I understand your problem, do you mean you have to keep the server running in as in the “npx -y scrypted serve”. You can instead run Scrypted as a service by running the following command once you’ve installed Scrypted. This will start Scrypted automatically once you boot up your Raspberry Pi. 1) Create scrypted.service in /etc/systemd/system/ with the following contents (replace the service user pi as appropriate): [Unit] Description=Scrypted service After=network.target [Service] User=pi Group=pi Type=simple KillMode=process ExecStart=/usr/bin/npx -y scrypted serve Restart=on-failure RestartSec=3 [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target 2) Then enable the service with: sudo systemctl enable scrypted.service && sudo systemctl start scrypted.service Hope this helps! 😊

[@AhmadNazirAfiq]

@@JerielRubarajan i’ve tried. But as soon as I terminate the SSH session, the service stops working. I’ve created the scrypted.service file using nano remotely, not sure what’s wrong :(

[@JerielRubarajan]

Hmmm, I’ll give this a try too myself, I’ll let you know how it goes Join me on discord on my Scrypted channel, and we can work together on this. discord.gg/X7t7J4qTs6

[@MrTsittser]

Nice tutorial, tnx

[@JerielRubarajan]

Thank you! Glad you liked it! 😁

[@babelhoo]

Great tutorial, thanks! I'm currently using Frigate and after some tweaking it works really well (although not on a Pi, but a more powerful PC), I especially like the person detection which is quite good. How is Homekit's people detection (not faces, just to get notifications for any people detected), is it precise or you get false positives (or no detection)? thanks

[@JerielRubarajan]

Thank you! HomeKit's people detection for me has been working very well. I haven't had any false positives, except for the tie a builder crawling on the was detected as an animal. That said, even the animal detection is very good whenever a dog or fox or cat comes into view, about 4 to 5 meters away from the camera. I'd say it's definitely precise, and performance is probably better than Frigate, even if you run Scrypted on a Pi! Face detection with HomeKit isn't quite as good as the People detection. It does work, and works well most of the time, but it depends on how close the person is to your camera, ie they'd have to be in a close range (up to 3m away) and their face would have to be clearly visible. It doesn't work with masks. Scrypted is soon going to be featuring an NVR, which when paired with its TensorFlow plugin (and a Coral if you have one!) will have amazing people, object and face detection! If you want to keep this conversion going, please do join me on Discord for further discussions :) discord.gg/X7t7J4qTs6

[@feeesta]

@@JerielRubarajan any chance to run scrypted on an rpi that is running hoobs? Maybe Like a plugin?

[@JerielRubarajan]

Hi, I believe Homebridge support is being worked on, there was a pull request as one point. But other than that, you would have to install Docker and run it through Docker, or you may be able to install it locally if you this tutorial: kzbin.info/www/bejne/r5PGYox7aMaImsk

[@babelhoo]

@@JerielRubarajan thanks again! I tried installing it today and it's VERY promising! I left you a question on Discord.

[@JerielRubarajan]

Hi! That's great news! I can’t see the message on Discord anymore, but message me again on there 🙂

[@JMejia15]

Can I use this to add a standalone Amcrest cam using PoE to HK? No nvr needed and just use HKSV for recordings?

[@JerielRubarajan]

Hi there, Which camera in specific are you thinking about? As I think it would depend. I know that with Reolink cameras, this can be done. A good PoE Reolink camera is the RLC-410. But personally I would recommend using an NVR, as HKSV only records when there is motion detected. In my setup, I leave my NVR recording 24/7 as this can also pick up activity in the background that HKSV does not.

[@JMejia15]

I’m looking at something like Amcrest IP8M-T2599EW. I don’t see a need for an NVR right now, I use an Aqara G2H that has a microsd for local recording if needed but not rated for outdoors. Want something with reliability and speed of poe. I really only need 2-3 cameras so I feel an NVR would be more than I need

[@JerielRubarajan]

That looks like a great option Joshua! Just did some research myself and HikVision IP PoE Camera's also good. What do you plan to run Scrypted on? A Raspberry Pi? Just to let you know, HKSV is limited by Apple to 1080p HD, so if you want to save money you can get a lower resolution camera. But there's no harm in getting a higher spec one too. Feel free to meet me on Discord if you have any more questions, etc... discord.gg/3Vy5HQQmVT

[@bradleyclark5936]

Thanks!!!

[@thedosh100]

Great tutorial, is there a Google Home version of this?

[@JerielRubarajan]

Thank you! This can be done with Google Home, however there are some limitations and drawbacks when compared to Apple HomeKit - let me know if you would like a video on this!

[@TheJoaolyraaraujo]

🙌🏻

[@JerielRubarajan]

🙌🏾😁

[@gijane9375]

Doe's the android version still work

[@JerielRubarajan]

I believe it's not supported anymore

[@kingkuntaSWM]

So no demonstration? Sounds like a good idea, but the money that would go into trying this because I haven't seen what it could do is deterrent.

[@shadow.banned]

I swear, UK accents are getting harder to understand as I get older.