Integrate Neos or Wyze Camera into Home Assistant, Control with MQTT

[@therealroga]

Neos just closed down their site and the app. So there will be thousands of these devices now kicking around needing this video to revive them!

[@paulwillis3540]

Literally just watching to save my camera

[@MantisTech]

Hi Will, I bought a Neos cam and followed your instructions to install the defang firmware, however the GUI looks completely different and also the video quality is fairly poor and laggy. Can you help, did I install the wrong firmware or something?

[@WillSurridgeTech]

My video is quite old so they may have updated the interface :) if the video is laggy then try changing the settings (frame rate, etc)

[@ENGLISHBULLOX]

hey did you ever figure out were the rtsp url is located on the new ui

[@mav1937]

Did you manage to resolve your issue as I'm having same problem, lag and UI does not show any RTSP link like in video.

[@JPOlivePT]

I tried like you show in the movie but the UI is very different from yours I used a neon cam

[@trevsweb]

Just wondering if the neos cams and their door sensor bridge add-ons work with home assistant and the defang firmware. Will be sacrificing one of my cams to test as the neos app is annoying me so much. Would be cool as then I don't need to buy additional sensors.

[@asaadmk1]

Hi I am still very new and I don't have any smart stuff but I am planing to get and was wondering is it possible to make home assistance send a push notification to iPhone Android to open wyze cam app to see who is on the front door

[@stain3565]

Hi, just setting up but cannot find the rtsp url (could take a guess based on your video but unsure) and also the still image url. The reason seems to be that the dafang interface is very different now to that of June 2020. Any ideas?

[@edgaro.4564]

If I do not have other option than install the camera upside-down how can I rotate the image in HA???

[@WillSurridgeTech]

You can flip the image in the dafang settings under video configuration

[@mikeowens6539]

do i do it threw my phone/tablet or do i need to have a usb data cable to use on lappy ? tia

[@stuartrozier]

hey will, ive just started this tutorial a few years too late haha - HA is now saying the generic camera config is being removed, is there an alternative ? many thanks in advance

[@rosspage9397]

Hey Will, for some reason I can connect to SSH but i can't locate the sdcard config directory... any tips? Can i just plug in the sd card into my pc and change it manually?

[@ngoctaiquach3144]

my camera xiaomi Yi 720 after hacking it doesn't give username and password. So what to do. Please help. Thank!

[@BuyAtLess]

Should I follow the same steps for the wyze cam?

[@WillSurridgeTech]

Yeh should be exactly the same

[@ragdepc]

Is awesome, I was Looking something like this, I just set it up, but I try to set it up with octoPrint an didn’t work, do you know why??

[@WillSurridgeTech]

I'm not familiar with octoprint I'm afraid :(

[@timknowlden]

Hi will, I don’t have a wyze cam but I have integrated my yicam into HA and have been unable to get it auto discovered in mqtt so will see if I can ssh in and edit mqtt conf as you have done with this. My question really though is does HA playback sound from the camera. Mine will not although I have integrated it with ffmpeg as was unable to get generic cam working.

[@WillSurridgeTech]

in theory it should, but I have to admit I've never tried!

[@amarindersodhi6089]

Great post !! Can you help me to restore original neo camera, firmware. Thanks

[@WillSurridgeTech]

I have to say, I've never done it before. But I believe if you download the original firmware (github.com/EliasKotlyar/Xiaomi-Dafang-Hacks/tree/master/firmware_original/Neos_Smartcam/Orig_4.15.2.45), then you just carry out the same process with the demo.bin file

[@boost3d831]

Fantastic video thanks for this!

[@WillSurridgeTech]

Thank you :)

[@noz3m]

The motion dection toggle has been set but the motion sensor status stays at clear. Also my GUI looks different then yours, has the firmware GUI been updated?

[@WillSurridgeTech]

Not sure what's happening with motion - I imagine you'll be in a later firmware though

[@noz3m]

@@WillSurridgeTech had to tweak the settings and seems to work now.

[@WillSurridgeTech]

fab!

[@a.b2966]

Great video, but I have a question. Can I install Wyze camera OS on my Neos camera ? And would there be any issue ? I just want it to work with google home and neos only works with Alexa which is annoying.

[@markgittins7269]

Im the other way, want to install the Neos firmware onto my wyze cam v2. can't seem to find anywhere. Reason being that Alexa with wyze is not supported in the UK

[@MrFadihamdan]

Hi there, Did you successfully integrate Wyze outdoor camera?

[@WillSurridgeTech]

I'm afriad I'm UK based so only have the neos - the wyze v2 is the same hardware so should work

[@MarkWatt3295]

Thanks for the guide Will. Ive got everything setup but cant get Home Assistant to open the rtsp feed. In the logs its showing as 401 authentication error. I am deffo using the correct creds (tried the stream using vlc and it works fine). The image feed also works. Just not live stream. Any ideas? Cheers.

[@MarkWatt3295]

If anyone is interested and has the same issue as above. I found a fix. The username and password need to be passed in the stream source. E.g. stream_source: rtsp://username:password@yourcameraip I can now view live feeds from Neos Cam Cheers.

[@WillSurridgeTech]

Glad you got it working!

[@MarkWatt3295]

@@WillSurridgeTech do you know if these streams can be viewed with the Echo shows?

[@WillSurridgeTech]

You can use a skill called monocle, but i found it very slow to load the streams.

[@MarkWatt3295]

@@WillSurridgeTech Did Monocle work with your Neos Cam? I tried setting it up earlier today but had no luck getting it to actually show on the Echo.

[@ZephonEx]

Hello! Question: is this really necessary to make work your cameras on Home assistant? I have Wyze cameras but I want To integrate with home assistant

[@WillSurridgeTech]

If your wyze camera outputs an RTSP stream then you are able to just add that as a camera entity. The benefit of this method is that you've installed custom firmware which completely removes it from the cloud so you know it's secure.

[@euartista]

@@WillSurridgeTech Is there a trade off here where with TRSP there is drops in frames and image quality? The camera was already cheap in nature, making it worse may not be an advantage to do all this, right? Or not?

[@miguelmeloqueiroz3553]

Probably a dumb question as I'm watching these videos for the first time and have just bought the NEOS camera minutes ago (not here yet) but I seem to understand you recommend setting the resolution to 720p... Won't it work with 1080p resolution? Or is it just a "good enough" setting to begin with and then work it up or down from there, to adjust it to the existing bandwidth and processing power?

[@WillSurridgeTech]

It will work with higher but will depend on your network speeds and you will probably need to change the frame rate/bitrate for it to work well

[@ryanandrewbaker]

I know i'm late to the game, but it seems the configuration.yaml (or wherever you put it) has changed with a new version of HA because that's failing even exactly as written to pass the HA validation. Once again HA confuses the living **** outta me. Thanks anyway for the video. I got the camera flashed okay :)

[@WillSurridgeTech]

glad it works for you!

[@ryanandrewbaker]

@@WillSurridgeTech In the yaml I had to append "camera:" in the line before - generic, which isn't mentioned in your video or on the website. You may wish to update the website to make it clear for others. Thanks again for the video, it got me 99% of the way there :)

[@WillSurridgeTech]

ah okay - must be an update since I made the video!

[@RobertBrownTUC]

@@ryanandrewbaker I know is was a bit ago but could you share the code that you had to use to get this to work. I am not able to get HA to recognize the camera after adding it in the config file. If not thanks for the info anyway.

[@valtek1959]

Hey Will, another great video! Thanks. Have you done anything involving clickable notifications, or do they just not work with iPhones? Thanks again.

[@WillSurridgeTech]

Hi Grant! Thank you! I haven't yet, but I'll add it to the list! They do work with iPhone :)

[@noz3m]

Is MQTT software based or do we need a dongle for that? Also I noticed you said something about recording.. are you able to record the feed with the Dafang software? Or do we need something like blue iris for that? Thanks for the great video again!

[@WillSurridgeTech]

It's fully software based - you just need to install/configure the mosquitto broker from the add-on store. As for recording, I believe that is something you would want an NVR such as blue iris for. You will soon run out of space on your HA machine, and it's not designed for that really. There are some free alternatives such as zoneminder :)

[@noz3m]

@@WillSurridgeTech thanks for the reply. I think blue iris or NVR is a little bit over powered. I'm currently living in an apartment and want max 2-4 cameras. Can the neo Cam's record to home assistant on an external HDD or something?

[@WillSurridgeTech]

As far as I know, you can't record within HA, but you could use motion eye as an nvr and install that as a an add on to HA.

[@noz3m]

@@WillSurridgeTech thanks!

[@WillSurridgeTech]

No worries, let me know if there's anything else!

[@TwanJaarsveld1]

wil this work on a xiaomi cam

[@WillSurridgeTech]

It should do, yes - supported cameras are listed on the github page

[@Danielacosta-po8cz]

Thanks for the info 👍🏽👍🏽

[@WillSurridgeTech]

No problem 👍

[@mukeshchauhan7953]

Hi, Due to some reason time on Wyze camera is not getting local time. I changed the time zone to "America/Toronto" and changed NTP server to "ca.pool.ntp.org" from default google but still showing wrong time stamp. Any idea, what could be causing it?

[@WillSurridgeTech]

If the minutes are correct and the hours are out then try changing the time zone until you get it right? Other than that I don't know what to suggest...turn it off and on again?

[@mukeshchauhan7953]

No, even minutes, seconds are incorrect, everytime I reboot camera it goes back to 19:00:00 31.12.1969 X=0 Y=0 and it starts moving forward from there. This is displayed as time stamp on camera image. It means it is not syncing or not getting time from NTP server during reboot. Thxanks for your reply.@@WillSurridgeTech

[@WillSurridgeTech]

Oh odd...have you got some strange network situation happening where it cant access the internet? Sorry I couldn't help more!

[@mukeshchauhan7953]

I can see everytime I change NTP server entry, update is failing. Another thing I am noticing in network log that it is not showing anything for DNS and Gateway, it seems blank. It should pickup from my wifi config but somehow not picking up. I am able to ping the camera over my network. If I remove the SD card and the camera doesn't connect to network!

[@WillSurridgeTech]

That's very strange! I know you need the sd card for it to connect - as that is where the wpa config file is stored - all I can think of is to reinstall the firmware and see whether it happens again - if it does, maybe post an issue on the github for it?

[@paulwatts5102]

Hey Will, another great vid! I have managed to get the camera flashed and streaming in home assistant fine but there is about a 20 second delay in the live stream any ideas why this might be?

[@WillSurridgeTech]

To be honest, I'm not sure - I know someone else said the beta version of the software was quicker, but I haven't tried myself. I just use the updating still image rather than rtsp and its about 4 seconds delay, which is better, but not ideal.