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QuantumEntangledAndy
Doorbell press event support
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. I am using Neolink to connect to the new WiFi battery doorbell. Everything works like expected (after some fiddling of course) but now I need to know when someone presses the bell.
I would implement it myself but then I would need to learn Rust from scratch :)
It's a nice enhancement and I wouldn't mind tackling it. But I'd need access to the wireshark packets to reverse engineer the protocol
If you can provide some steps on how I should setup an environment to capture those packets I can provide them to you.
I have also been looking at how the button press event is implemented in the official HomeAssistant Reolink integration. There the package reolink_aio is used. When looking into it it seems like the event is called visitor on cmd code 33
https://github.com/starkillerOG/reolink_aio/blob/main/reolink_aio/baichuan/baichuan.py#L423
Not sure if this could be of any help...
Oh we have CMD 33 already done. It will pop up as a motion alert but we filter it out.
How would you expect it to be integrated? Are you using the mqtt to read events?
Yes I use MQTT to receive everything on HomeAssistant so that would be ideal :)
I'm working on a build for this to test. Are you using docker or bare metal neolink?
I use the neolink package on a debian LXC in proxmox. Thanks for the quick implementation!
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I'm working on a build for this to test. Are you using docker or bare metal neolink?
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I'm currently not home so I can test this in 3 ish hours.
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Ok I have the build happening herehttps://github.com/QuantumEntangledAndy/neolink/actions/runs/12947382929 hopefully it will work and then the binaries will be available
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Ok build of the binaries are here https://github.com/QuantumEntangledAndy/neolink/actions/runs/12947507860
Docker is here quantumentangledandy/neolink:feat-visitor
Do I have to modify any config to add the visitor functionality ? Like for example in mqqt features ?
Alright got the event! A small problem dho
Message 138438 received on neolink/Doorbell/status/visitor at 15:13:
visitor
Neolink has send the event almost 140000 times
Same with the AI event and something is wrong with the motion event no longer coming through
https://github.com/QuantumEntangledAndy/neolink/actions/runs/12961197957 next build
Should fix the repeating notifications, couldnt replicate the motion stopping on mine but I don't have ai or visitor
I will be able to test the next build in a week
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https://github.com/QuantumEntangledAndy/neolink/actions/runs/12961197957 next build
Should fix the repeating notifications, couldnt replicate the motion stopping on mine but I don't have ai or visitor
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I see that the issue is now fixed. Thanks! But for some reason motion events are still not pushed through. I have enabled debug mode but that also gives nothing.
Reolink has some different ways to detect motion.
- One of the ways is PiR into AI
- another is PIR only (can't detect that any more since we lost push notifications)
- another is detecting changed pixels between frames
The motion detection in Neolink is for the third kind, changed frames
Did it work before? I'd like to get a wireshark dump so I can examine the packets and see what is coming from the cameras can you provide one?
Ah then I think it is not working because of the lost push notifications. I have it setup to disconnect when no motion is detected after a certain amount of time because it is a battery powered doorbell.
Since there's no push notifications it won't reconnect by itself anymore.
P.s. do you have an NVR? I think I can reverse engineer their protocol to hook into its notification system. But I don't have one myself to find out
Sadly I don't have the NVR or the home hub. I have thought about buying one of them if neolink didn't work out. Maybe for the greater good I should buy one ...
If we can solve it in 30 days I could theoretically send it back even.
I'm not sure about the less than 30 days thing. (Work is always busy and would require a lot of effort to reverse engineer)
I'm hoping to find something to help or maybe try other experiments.
Hi @QuantumEntangledAndy, just wanted to let you know that I will be buying the Home Hub. Just waiting for a sale price. Once I have it I will get back in touch
@QuantumEntangledAndy I'm in luck and got one at a discount :) Whenever you have some free time could you provide me with a setup to gather the packets between the home hub and the battery doorbell
Hey there. Have you made any progress on this? Also using a battery doorbell and would love to integrate it into homeassistant to play chimes on my smart speakers on button press.
Hi @koproductions-code @QuantumEntangledAndy I don't know if it's interesting but I'm trying to reverse engineer the connection in https://github.com/starkillerOG/reolink_aio/issues/125 because my python understanding is better than Rust
I know this is a little stale; but any updates ? Anything you need in order to get this working ? Happy to help as have just got this all up and running.
