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Home Assistant HACS Security Spy integration abandoned

caseydcaseyd
edited September 19 in Home automation

I'm sort of late to this news, but in the Briis integration has been abandoned

Github -

"This Integration will no longer be maintained

I did give it a try, but I simply don't have the resources to maintain this integration anymore, and therefore I will remove it from the default HACS store. I will leave the Github Repository open, and I hope that someone else will be able to take it over."

too bad, I've been running it for a couple of years and it seemed fine.

my hunch is that HA is moving so quickly the overhead of chasing dependencies became too much for Briis.

SSpy automator perns, any thoughts on this?

Comments

  • benishbenish

    Oh no. :(

    I do tons of stuff in Home Assistant with events from Security Spy via this integration.

  • BenBen

    This certainly is a shame, but we're grateful to Briis for creating this and maintaining this project for as long as he has done!

    Although it's not quite as comprehensive, an alternative for Home Assistant users is the the HomeKit Bridge integration. While this doesn't support camera feeds, it does make all HA accessories available to HomeKit, and therefore accessible to SecuritySpy via its Home integration. This allows SecuritySpy to control HA accessories in response to motion detection, and also allows HA accessories to trigger recording or Schedule Presets in SecuritySpy.

  • luqmanluqman

    I stopped using it for my use-case beause only events were need. I use Node-RED to subscribe to events, then send them to home assistant via MQTT. I can probably turn it into a re-useable subflow if interested.

  • benishbenish

    @luqman I'd be interested in seeing how you have that working.

    For what it's worth, at the moment I'm mostly doing things like sending notifications when a person is detected – attached is an example automation. I have plans to do some more involved things, but they are still mostly iterations on: if person is detected, then do something.

    CleanShot 2024-09-30 at 10.52.33@2x.png

    Thanks!

  • luqmanluqman

    I will publish it over the weekend, just need to test the sub-flow more/make it configurable, maybe write some docs. I always find it interesting looking at other automations, what are you trying to do with that template or overall automation goal?

    This is what Node-Red outputs from Security Spy API via sub-flow; you can use it to create sensors/automations in Node-RED or send data directly to HA. It also re-connects after failure.

    Heartbeat

    {"time":"20240928132817","number":"0","camera":"X","event":"NULL","info":""}

    File Written

    {"time":"20240928132647","number":"10","camera":"4","event":"FILE","info":"/Volumes/Storage/Security Spy/CameraX/{date}.mov"}

    Motion

    {"time":"20240928132614","number":"20","camera":"4","event":"MOTION","info":{"x":"0","y":"1538","w":"420","h":"594"}}

    Classify

    {"time":"20240928132611","number":"21","camera":"4","event":"CLASSIFY","info":{"HUMAN":100,"VEHICLE":0,"ANIMAL":1}}

    Motion End

    {"time":"20240928132616","number":"22","camera":"4","event":"MOTION_END","info":""}

    Trigger

    {"time":"20240928132610","number":"30","camera":"4","event":"TRIGGER_A","info":"128"}

  • benishbenish

    what are you trying to do with that template or overall automation goal?

    Basically just get a notification (with a still photo attached) when someone is at the front door.

    The And if timestamp thing just keeps it from firing off dozens of notifications, because the event constantly fires while a human is detected.

    The delay gives the person time to get fully in the frame – otherwise I end up with a photo of feet at the top of the frame.

    It's likely there is a better way to do this – I'm not a programmer or a Home Assistant expert!

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