Thanks to everyone who joined the stream and congrats to Drew Johnson for winning SwitchBot camera - please contact me via whatever@beardedtinker.com for shipping address :) commentpicker.com/youtube.php?id=ycp_62c9b11a37436749 There will be one more camera for a giveaway in September!
Really useful, but how did you get round the 1 month limit on the free trial for iot core on Tuya? Mine has just ended and kicked me out, so I can't link my cameras to Home Assistant now.
Unfortunately, I was lucky that I got 12 months when creating account. You can try and extend it not sure if you need to send email to them or it can be done via UI, but people did get it extended for free.
@@BeardedTinker umm. I see that there is the ability to set motion detection on or off and change motion detection sensitivity but the motion sensor itself is unavailable. I can't trigger automations based on motion sensor in HA. Can you?
You are right, I was wrong! I looked over entity list and there is Motion Alarm switch. Thought it was used instead of binary_sensor to show state.Also, camera.entity doesn't change from idle when motion is triggered. It has only idle/recording state. So your question was good - looks like motion sensor is not exposed!
So I just got this camera and put it in the switchbot app and then deleted it from it because I found your video. I added it to the two-year app and I added the two yet integration to home assistant and my camera was already discovered and found and already in there without having to do all that extra stuff with tokens and IDs. The problem is my camera won't show the live stream on home assistant. Do you know anything about this?
@@BeardedTinker It was just a black screen but I did some research and found a integration called WebRTC and has something to do with go2RTC and then I installed it and followed the instructions. It only used two YAML lines of code and now I can see it perfectly
Just got myself 2 switchbot curtains last week, easy to setup ! & thanks for upskilling us with #SWITCHBOT and home assistant integration :) BTW I live in the UK! will I be considered EU ? lol (😉)
Thanks for the video and useful review! I was considering getting #SWITCHBOT motion sensor...do you have any expericences with heir motion sensors and contact sensors? Keep up the good work, Andrej!
Unfortunately no - didn't try. But from what I've seen they are really good and with extra button on it that can trigger anything - they are really good choice! Really should try one!
I love how swittchbot are reaching out. Unfortunately I am in Australia, so I can't join the giveaway, but when the camera's are available here I will grab one to look at :)
Same here. I can get a static image from the camera, and if I refresh the dashboard it will update the static image. But haven't worked out how to get it to stream. Anyone else work out how to do this?
Plus, in my case, it always returns low-quality video streams, and there is no way to switch to a HD stream. I've asked Tuya's development team, and they replied that it's a work in progress with no estimated release time.
This video came out in the wright time, I've just got the same Camera same day only a few hours before this video arrived and it is made my life more easy. Thank you very much you shared your knowledges to us. Big thumb up! #switchbot
Love your stuff! I was surprised to see you also do 3D printing videos. I've been trying to combine my 3D printer with Home Assistant in some way lately. Maybe show what layer is currently being printed on the Dashboard or something. #SWITCHBOT
Thank you Obi! I've tested SwitchBot Indoor cam and it works nicely as 3D printer camera! I do have also RPi camera that I use for timelapse - both are inside HA UI.
great video ,we love your video style,I am eva from Moes which produce and sell the smart product for whole smart house for many years,do you have any idea about cooperate with us to be a product review?waiting to your feedback
I hope someone can tell me what went wrong when I tried this. I created a Tuya account in the app and connected the camera, no problem. I then went to log in to Tuya IoT website, login from app didn't work (I use a password manager, so it was exactly as typed in app and I visually checked this too, the password entered was the correct one from the app) so I created a new account for Tuya IoT, fine that worked. I created the cloud project as you showed, but then connecting the app 0 (zero) devices were added. Tuya IoT page suggested something called Smart Industry App, so I went ahead and installed that. NONE of the Tuya logins work on that! Why does this have to be so difficult? Thanks in advance for any help you might be able to offer.
You could try and follow the steps from video and create new cloud project. Also make sure the data center is same as region you are using in your app. Also what app did you use? I think Tuya is ending support for other apps.
@@BeardedTinker Thanks so much for replying. I tried created another cloud project but still could not get it to see the camera that is visible in the app. Unfortunately I am unable to find out which server region the Tuya Smart app has connected to anywhere in the settings so I am closing the account and I'll create a new one. Hopefully I will see in the setup which server it connects to. It's just a shame it takes Tuya seven days to delete an account. Once I can get started again in a weeks time, I will update you. Thanks again for replying with assistance.
Quick update: Tuya IoT support got back to me about the message I sent them yesterday, with a very unhelpful response of "The app is not the same as the IoT platform, contact app support"!! Clearly paying no attention to the long explanation of what I was trying to do or looking at the time linked part of your video that I sent them. This is why I turn to the community, who want to help, rather that support who are payed to get rid of you as quickly as possible...
@@BeardedTinker Problem solved! After speaking to a contact who had a similar problem it has been resolved. It seems that in my haste to set it up I missed the bit that says that the UK is in Central Europe for the database purposes, and in my rush had selected Western Europe instead. Having set it to Central Europe, I now have access to my devices! Thank you so much again for your response, and for another great video!
Super video! I have two switchbot bot in my raspberry pi without hub and I am very happy with it. One for a coffee machine and another for a wireless little fan #SWITCHBOT
I’m following #SWITCHBOT also on twitter for some time already, but I didn’t know they have cams… Hopefully they’ll implement RTSP to cams so we can use them in #FrigateNVR.
Great video as always. As a beginner in Home Assistant tinkering, and with a small baby, I would like to have a camera and to follow your steps to integrate it to HA and start more monitoring. Also I would save you some money for shipping as it would be local to Croatia. #SWITCHBOT
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Thanks to everyone who joined the stream and congrats to Drew Johnson for winning SwitchBot camera - please contact me via whatever@beardedtinker.com for shipping address :)
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There will be one more camera for a giveaway in September!
Mad that the PTZ camera costs less than regular indoor cam. How you do dat #SWITCHBOT
Really useful, but how did you get round the 1 month limit on the free trial for iot core on Tuya? Mine has just ended and kicked me out, so I can't link my cameras to Home Assistant now.
Unfortunately, I was lucky that I got 12 months when creating account. You can try and extend it not sure if you need to send email to them or it can be done via UI, but people did get it extended for free.
Wow, Switchbot camera were actually Tuya compatible! Thank you so much, I could finally use the 2 Switchbot cameras I had
Glad you got it working!!!
Awesome! Were you also able to expose the camera's motion sensor to Home Assistant?
Yes, of course - all entities from the device are pulled including state of motion detection.
@@BeardedTinker umm. I see that there is the ability to set motion detection on or off and change motion detection sensitivity but the motion sensor itself is unavailable. I can't trigger automations based on motion sensor in HA. Can you?
You are right, I was wrong!
I looked over entity list and there is Motion Alarm switch. Thought it was used instead of binary_sensor to show state.Also, camera.entity doesn't change from idle when motion is triggered. It has only idle/recording state.
So your question was good - looks like motion sensor is not exposed!
It’s a global problem then. Thanks for taking time to answer my query! Great content!!
So I just got this camera and put it in the switchbot app and then deleted it from it because I found your video. I added it to the two-year app and I added the two yet integration to home assistant and my camera was already discovered and found and already in there without having to do all that extra stuff with tokens and IDs. The problem is my camera won't show the live stream on home assistant. Do you know anything about this?
This shouldn't be the case? Do you have static image or just blank (black) image?
@@BeardedTinker It was just a black screen but I did some research and found a integration called WebRTC and has something to do with go2RTC and then I installed it and followed the instructions. It only used two YAML lines of code and now I can see it perfectly
Thanks for such a detailed tutorial. Helped me a lot!
Awesome to hear it! Thanks for the comment!!!
Just got myself 2 switchbot curtains last week, easy to setup ! & thanks for upskilling us with #SWITCHBOT and home assistant integration :) BTW I live in the UK! will I be considered EU ? lol (😉)
Well, OK, you were in EU so, that should count :)
Thanks for the video and useful review! I was considering getting #SWITCHBOT motion sensor...do you have any expericences with heir motion sensors and contact sensors? Keep up the good work, Andrej!
Unfortunately no - didn't try. But from what I've seen they are really good and with extra button on it that can trigger anything - they are really good choice! Really should try one!
I love how swittchbot are reaching out.
Unfortunately I am in Australia, so I can't join the giveaway, but when the camera's are available here I will grab one to look at :)
You can - SwitchBot contacted me and said they will send it wherever it needs to go, so you are also more than welcome to join ;)
Unfortunately this way of integrating switchbot pan/tilt cam does not work. Most of entities work but not image stream.
Same here. I can get a static image from the camera, and if I refresh the dashboard it will update the static image. But haven't worked out how to get it to stream. Anyone else work out how to do this?
Plus, in my case, it always returns low-quality video streams, and there is no way to switch to a HD stream. I've asked Tuya's development team, and they replied that it's a work in progress with no estimated release time.
This video came out in the wright time, I've just got the same Camera same day only a few hours before this video arrived and it is made my life more easy. Thank you very much you shared your knowledges to us. Big thumb up! #switchbot
Thank you Zoltan! Very nice "small" camera. Wish it had rtsp so we could avoid cloud, but...
Nice vídeo like always! Can you control the pan and tilt movement with HA's tuya integration? #SWITCHBOT
TBH, I didn't even try... Will check and answer a bit later.
Good luck!
Love your stuff! I was surprised to see you also do 3D printing videos. I've been trying to combine my 3D printer with Home Assistant in some way lately. Maybe show what layer is currently being printed on the Dashboard or something. #SWITCHBOT
Thank you Obi! I've tested SwitchBot Indoor cam and it works nicely as 3D printer camera!
I do have also RPi camera that I use for timelapse - both are inside HA UI.
Great video as usual. Don't know if you are counting UK as EU but here goes... #SWITCHBOT
Well, actually after publishing video SwitchBot said they'll send to whoever wins directly, so good luck :)
I really like #SWITCHBOT stuff! Thanks for the video
Good luck with giveaway ;)
great video ,we love your video style,I am eva from Moes which produce and sell the smart product for whole smart house for many years,do you have any idea about cooperate with us to be a product review?waiting to your feedback
Thank you for contacting me - please send mail to inquiry@beardedtinker.com - I've already had fun with smart valve from Moes Home.
Did someone say "Giveaway"? #SWITCHBOT
And you are in!
Yet again a awesome video. If I get picked I'll start my own youtube channel as another bearded home assistant user and review this #switchbot camera.
Than you Vic!!
There are not enough beards on YT - go for it!!!
@@BeardedTinker I hope I'll get picked!
I like your videos, especially your HA tutorials where you fully explain add-ons, .., there should be more bearded tinkers in the world ;-) #SWITCHBOT
I hope someone can tell me what went wrong when I tried this. I created a Tuya account in the app and connected the camera, no problem. I then went to log in to Tuya IoT website, login from app didn't work (I use a password manager, so it was exactly as typed in app and I visually checked this too, the password entered was the correct one from the app) so I created a new account for Tuya IoT, fine that worked.
I created the cloud project as you showed, but then connecting the app 0 (zero) devices were added. Tuya IoT page suggested something called Smart Industry App, so I went ahead and installed that. NONE of the Tuya logins work on that!
Why does this have to be so difficult?
Thanks in advance for any help you might be able to offer.
You could try and follow the steps from video and create new cloud project. Also make sure the data center is same as region you are using in your app.
Also what app did you use? I think Tuya is ending support for other apps.
@@BeardedTinker Thanks so much for replying. I tried created another cloud project but still could not get it to see the camera that is visible in the app. Unfortunately I am unable to find out which server region the Tuya Smart app has connected to anywhere in the settings so I am closing the account and I'll create a new one. Hopefully I will see in the setup which server it connects to.
It's just a shame it takes Tuya seven days to delete an account. Once I can get started again in a weeks time, I will update you.
Thanks again for replying with assistance.
Quick update: Tuya IoT support got back to me about the message I sent them yesterday, with a very unhelpful response of "The app is not the same as the IoT platform, contact app support"!!
Clearly paying no attention to the long explanation of what I was trying to do or looking at the time linked part of your video that I sent them.
This is why I turn to the community, who want to help, rather that support who are payed to get rid of you as quickly as possible...
@@BeardedTinker Problem solved! After speaking to a contact who had a similar problem it has been resolved. It seems that in my haste to set it up I missed the bit that says that the UK is in Central Europe for the database purposes, and in my rush had selected Western Europe instead.
Having set it to Central Europe, I now have access to my devices!
Thank you so much again for your response, and for another great video!
I need this camera to replace my old broken camera that I need to secure my home... #switchbot
Thumb up for the great video as allways. #switchbot
Thank you Michael :)
Always a great pleasure 😊👍 #SWITCHBOT
Thanks Sebastian!!! And good luck with giveaway!
Hope I can win it 🤞🏻Keep going like this, best Home Assistant videos ever #SWITCHBOT
Thank you and good luck with giveaway!!!
Small pantilt camera compatible with HA 🥰 Tasty! #SWITCHBOT
Super video! I have two switchbot bot in my raspberry pi without hub and I am very happy with it. One for a coffee machine and another for a wireless little fan #SWITCHBOT
That's great Jan! And Are you happy with them? I've heard that now stability should be a bit better with latest Bluetooth library in HA.
Great video! #SwitchBot
Your videos helped me set up my HA and this camera would fit well :) Pozdrav iz Slavonskog Broda :) #SWITCHBOT
Hvala Stjepan i sretno 😉
Great video as usual. Thanks for the review! #SWITCHBOT
Thank you!!!!
I’m following #SWITCHBOT also on twitter for some time already, but I didn’t know they have cams… Hopefully they’ll implement RTSP to cams so we can use them in #FrigateNVR.
That would be nice, but AFAIK not very soon. I've been nagging them since december last year :D
Great work. I really appreciate your videos. #switchbot
I appreciate that Simon, thank you!
Your videos are such good resources for newbies like me, thank you. #SWITCHBOT
Thank you and good luck with giveaway 😊
great video, you helped a lot with my HA configuration, this is one more perfect video for it #SWITCHBOT
Thank you Tretabyte!!!
Thank you for the great videos and the content. #SWITCHBOT
Such good videos so helpful my man. #switchbot
Great video as always. As a beginner in Home Assistant tinkering, and with a small baby, I would like to have a camera and to follow your steps to integrate it to HA and start more monitoring. Also I would save you some money for shipping as it would be local to Croatia. #SWITCHBOT
Good luck Antoni! Keeping fingers cross as this would be awesome baby monitor!
Great video as always I hope switchbot will make possible a local api to their cam #switchbot
It's not API problem, but who knows, as they are slowly introducing HomeKit compatible devices, maybe this will be resolved too.
@@BeardedTinker the best solution would be to add RTSP
Yes, definitely, we would find a way to get a stream then...
Thank you for the giveaway. #SWITCHBOT
I always comment on your videos i get extra Chans :):)
You know secret formula :)
@@BeardedTinker hehehe
Thank you for those helpful videos! #SWITCHBOT
As usual, great content, greetings from Slovenia. #SWITCHBOT
Hvala Stipe! Good luck!
I love your stuff man! #SWITCHBOT
great video as always #SWITCHBOT
Good video for configuration and integration in HA #SWITCHBOT
Glad you think so Ulrich! Thank you!
Great video as always. Lepi pozdravi iz Slovenije! #SWITCHBOT
Hvala puno!!!!
Great work 👍 #SWITCHBOT
Thank you Ana.. 😊
Thank you for your video's. #switchbot
Thank you Guido!
Love to win the switchbot
You're missing #switchbot :) Just edit the comment!
Get out of the ☁️ 😄
🏠 only? 😉😂
@@BeardedTinker I don't have any ☁️ stuff 👍
Wow amazing video. You always give us great content. Continue doing what you do!!!!! #switchbot
Thank you Allen!!! Will do my best.
What a usefull thing! #switchbot
It really is 😊
another great video #switchbot
Thank you Darren!
Thanks for your work #switchbot
Thank you Michal and good luck :)
Great video, #switchbot
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Thank you Miroslav and you are in!
Gimme! #switchbot
Who knows 😉
Nice video once again 👍🏽 #SWITCHBOT
Thank you!! @-Teme- ;)
#SWITCHBOT 🍻
Sretno Mario!!!
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