Hikvision KB8113 and openhab

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Dear all,

As many of us, I want to purchase a video doorbell to see who has been at the door while I am away, to answer calls while away, see what’s going on at night / times I am not at home. Also: yes, we had a visitor one night for a party I didn’t know that was going on. He did not enter, but me, my wife and children got a wake-up call to make the home a bit more secure.

Since the frontdoor is accessible for anyone and (as many houses do have) directly facing the streetside, I want a doorbell which is vandalism proof but also integratable into openhab. I found the Reolink to be very popular but has a disadvantage that it isn’t vandalism proof. Another device I found is the Hikvision KB8113: made out of metal, can’t be removed and seems to fullfill many requirements I have.

Except: I can’t find for sure if the events it has can be used to trigger openhab to … (record, show picture, play sounds, etc.). Does anyone have any experience on using this KB8113? I would like to capture: ringing the doorbell, detect movement, etc. (all the events the doorbell has to offer). I found some sites but the information is not conclusive: some claim it can be done, other claim it is impossible (or at least: doorbell ringing can’t be captured which is the main event I want).

Any ideas or information is appreciated.

Best regards.

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Hello,

I use a different model (ds-kv6113) from Hikvision with openhab thanks to this software:

https://github.com/pergolafabio/Hikvision-Addons

This was mainly done for Home Assistant but it works perfectly with openhab since it uses the MQTT protocol.

The DS-KB8113 is supported by this software

Hope it helps.

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Hi,

Thx for your reply. I’ve seen the thread, but somewhere down I have read that this doorbell wasn’t supported for all possible events (to be specific: ringing the doorbell was mentioned not to be supported). That’s why I was wondering if someone has any experience with the KB8113. Are you sure it is working? As in: get a message when someone is ringing at the doorbell, movement is detected, etc. for the KB8113?

EDIT: it was actually this thread ( DS-KD8003 - DS-KV8113 - DS-KV8213 - DS-KV6113 - DS-KV8413 and … integration Hikvision HikConnect Video intercom doorbell - Share your Projects! - Home Assistant Community) that I found in which is mentioned the KB8113 isn’t working. It refers to your github link.

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Well, may be you should post a thread in the github repository to see if someone had an experience with the KB8113. Situation may have changed.

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This was mainly done for Home Assistant but it works perfectly with openhab since it uses the MQTT protocol

Do you mean that you have HA running this addon, publishing to MQTT, to which you subscribe from OpenHAB?

EDIT: I see, you can run that add on as a docker container

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Hi,

No you do not need to have Home Assistant running. Just the docker container I mentioned and you can get the MQTT messages through the MQTT binding via a thing. Herewith is the container I am using on my Synology:

image

I have the following configuration for the MQTT thing:

UID: mqtt:topic:da029564bb:c57e64a3ad
label: DS-KV6113
thingTypeUID: mqtt:topic
configuration: {}
bridgeUID: mqtt:broker:da029564bb
location: Parking
channels:
  - id: ds-kv6113-button
    channelTypeUID: mqtt:switch
    label: ds-kv6113-button
    description: Appel intercom DS-KV6113
    configuration:
      stateTopic: hmd/sensor/DS-KV6113/Call-state/state
      off: idle
      on: ringing
  - id: ds-kv6113-date-time
    channelTypeUID: mqtt:string
    label: ds-kv6113-date-time
    description: Date et heure du dernier appel sur l'intercom
    configuration: {}
  - id: ds-kv6113-snapshot
    channelTypeUID: mqtt:image
    label: ds-kv6113-snapshot
    description: Snapshot après appel intercom
    configuration: {}
  - id: ds-kv6113-motion
    channelTypeUID: mqtt:switch
    label: ds-kv6113-motion
    description: Détection mouvement DS-KV6113
    configuration:
      stateTopic: hmd/device_automation/DS-KV6113/motion_detection/state
      transformationPattern:
        - JS:ZigbeeHIKMotion.js
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