homebridge-video-doorbell-rpi

Raspberry Pi video doorbell plugin for homebridge.

This plugin is based on homebridge-camera-rpi by moritzmhmk licensed under MIT license.

Prerequisite

• camera module activated (raspi-config)
• module bcm2835-v4l2 loaded (add bcm2835-v4l2 to /etc/modules and reboot)
• ffmpeg installed (sudo apt install ffmpeg you probably need to compile ffmpeg by yourself if it isn't available in the package manager)

Installation (as homebridge plugin)

npm install -g homebridge-video-doorbell-rpi

edit config.json and add platform rpi-doorbell

{
  ...
  "platforms": [
    ...
    {
      "platform": "rpi-doorbell",
      "doorbells": [
        {
          "name": "Pi Video Doorbell",
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}

restart homebridge

add extra camera accessory in the home app (the setup code is the same as for homebridge)

Installation (standalone)

optionally install in opt:

cd /opt
sudo mkdir homebridge-video-doorbell-rpi
sudo chown pi homebridge-video-doorbell-rpi

install:

git clone https://github.com/Supereg/homebridge-video-doorbell-rpi
cd homebridge-video-doorbell-rpi
npm install

test:

node standalone.js

optionally create systemd service /etc/systemd/system/hap-doorbell-rpi.service:

[Unit]
Description=HAP Video Doorbell RPi

[Service]
ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/node /opt/homebridge-video-doorbell-rpi/standalone.js -c /etc/homebridge-video-doorbell-rpi.conf.json
WorkingDirectory=/opt/homebridge-video-doorbell-rpi
Restart=always
RestartSec=10
User=pi

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

create config file /etc/homebridge-video-doorbell-rpi.conf.json:

{
  "name": "Pi Video Doorbell",
  "id": "Pi Video Doorbell",
  "pincode": "031-45-154",
  "username": "EC:23:3D:D3:CE:CE"
}

id is used to generate the uuid and defaults to name when not defined

enable and start the service:

sudo systemctl enable hap-doorbell-rpi
sudo systemctl start hap-doorbell-rpi

Options

{
  "name": "Pi Video Doorbell",
  "id": "Pi Video Doorbell",
  "rotate": 0,
  "verticalFlip": false,
  "horizontalFlip": false,
  "debug": false
}

Note: rotate currently only works for 0 and 180 degrees.