No Motion Detection in Wirefree Doorbell with Non-main Account and MQTT Backend

[visualage]

This is definitely not a problem with hass-aarlo module. I did my test with pyaarlo directly, and it is the same thing. Here are the tests I have done with my wirefree doorbell:

Main account and MQTT backend: motion detection event triggers Non-main account and MQTT backend: no motion detection event, but there is recent activity event Non-main account and SSE backend: motion detection event triggers

To be clear, this may not be a problem of pyaarlo at all. It would well be arlo mqtt not supporting non-main account with doorbell motion detection. But I would like to file a bug and make sure this is something on the arlo side, not pyaarlo side.

If this is indeed on arlo side, maybe we need a new backend that uses SSE backend for certain features and MQTT backend for other features? Or at least to allow user to choose which backend to use in hass-aarlo?

[twrecked]

Thanks for testing this. I agree with you, I'm not sure this is an aarlo issue.

I've created a version of aarlo where you can choose the backend I just haven't merged it back into the 0.7 branch. I'll merge it across later today.

The change is already in pyaarlo so if you're comfortable running that you could test it there.

edit: and I like the idea of allowing the user to run both, the change wouldn't be that great, I'll look at it this weekend.

[DerHerzog7]

Any update on this?

[visualage]

Just use sse backend. This is a problem on Arlo side.

[DerHerzog7]

Just use sse backend. This is a problem on Arlo side.

Sorry, can you clarify by what you mean to use sse backend?