MQTT Setup Questions about homebridge-dafang-mqtt-republish HOT 17 CLOSED

You'll need to set up an MQTT client somewhere (I personally recommend installing Mosquitto on the same system you run Homebridge on), then set the HOST value to point to that. You can also set LOCATION and DEVICE_NAME to change the topic it publishes to, by default it will publish to myhome/dafang.

I plan to try to write up some decent instructions after work today, but if you have any questions, I'm happy to try to help.

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I'm ignorant about these things.
if you can write the instructions exactly, I can follow them one by one.
thanks in advance for that.

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Okay, give me a few hours to finish working my day job and get something written up, and I'll reply here once I have that done.

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Thank you.

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Okay, I've written up a wiki page that includes fairly detailed instructions: https://github.com/Sunoo/homebridge-dafang-mqtt-republish/wiki/Configuring-Dafang-Hacks-Cameras-for-Homebridge

Please let me know if this is enough for you to get things configured. I'm happy to try to assist further if needed.

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that's pretty revealing. Thanks a lot
I'll try when I get home

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thanks for your supports worked smoothly

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Fantastic, glad I could help.

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notifications come a little late
is that normal ?
it comes after coming out of the camera's dial

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How late? In my testing, the alerts came almost the instant I waved my hand in front of the camera.

That said, if there is a delay, it’s probably your network or something else I have no control over, as there is no real programmed in delay or buffering in either of the plugins. Just the cooldown in this plugin, which wouldn’t delay the start of the initial motion alert.

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about 15 seconds after the action

   {
        "mqtt": "127.0.0.1",
        "topic": "homebridge/motion",
        "cameras": [
            {
                "name": "Giris",
                "motion": true,
                "motionTimeout": -1,
                "videoConfig": {
                    "source": "-re -i rtsp://192.168.1.112:8554/unicast",
                    "stillImageSource": "-i rtsp://192.168.1.112:8554/unicast",
                    "vcodec": "copy",
                    "audio": false,
                    "debug": true
                }
            }
        ],
        "platform": "Camera-ffmpeg"
    },
    {
        "cameras": [
            {
                "name": "Giris",
                "dafang_topic": "myhome/dafang",
                "homebridge_topic": "homebridge/motion",
                "cooldown": 30
            }
        ],
        "name": "Dafang MQTT",
        "server": "127.0.0.1",
        "port": 1883,
        "platform": "dafangMqtt"
    }
]

}

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15 seconds is a lot, and certainly nothing in either this plugin or Camera FFmpeg would explain that.

If you run Homebridge in debug mode (if using Config UI X, the option is under Homebridge Settings then Startup Options), then watch the log (the squiggly line in Config UI X), do the log entries about seeing motion messages happen quickly, or are any of them also delayed?

You could also make sure that the camera is seeing the motion by going to the camera’s Motion Detection settings and turning on “Display motion indicator”. Then, while watching the video stream a colored dot will appear in the image when the camera see’s motion. If that dot doesn’t appear, it won’t send any messages to Homebridge.

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as you said everything
do you want to connect and check

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I’m sorry, I don’t understand what you mean.

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can you contact and check with teamviewer

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I’m sorry, I’m just not really comfortable doing that.

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thanks for your help

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