To help explain my request for a native integration: Aqara has a few ways to integrate with Home Assistant, but not natively.
The options I’ve tried are:
- Link G400 to HomeKit and then RTSP Stream to HA
a. G400 Doorbell Home Assistant Dashboard Video Feed
b. Works, but HA sees only the video - Link G400 to HA through the HomeKit integration and then use Homekit Bridge in HA to link to HomeKit
a. Same limited number of entities in HA. Also loses a bunch of HomeKit features (face detection, Apple’s streaming services etc.) - Link G400 to HA through the HomeKit integration and then use Scrypted to push to HomeKit
a. Seems to be the most feature-rich option, but HA video can be laggy, and only gets motion and door press passed on.
There is a community integration for Aqara doorbells, but it doesn’t list the G400 and I’m not sure what entities it passes on anyways:
Compare that to Reolink’s HA integration which has tons of entities that show up natively:
