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⚠️ No longer actively maintained

Since there are now better alternatives with more features, I decided to no longer actively develop this script.

Eufy Home Assistant MQTT Bridge

This script subscribes to push notifications of the Eufy Security app and publishes events via MQTT to Home Assistant. When using auto discovery, it automatically creates a device with sensors within Home Assistant.

Uses the eufy-node-client by JanLoebel and is heavily inspired on its examples.

Create a second Eufy account!

At the moment it is not possible to use an account with 2FA enabled. You should not use the same account here and in the app, because when you log in at one app, sometimes you get logged out on other locations. I recommend creating a second account (with a strong random generated password and no 2FA) and invite it to your Eufy account.

When you receive "Failed to request" errors when starting this script, you have logged in too many times and are temporarily blocked. Wait a day and you'll be able to log in again.

Home Assistant Core vs Home Assistant Add-on

This repo describes running via Docker alongside Home Assistant Core. See below for an option to run it as an Add-on.

Supported devices

The following devices and features are supported. When a device of that type is detected, the sensors that are supported are automatically discovered in Home Assistant.

Motion detected Person detected Doorbell press Crying detected Sound detected Pet detected Thumbnail last event Battery status
Eufy Cam 1 (T8111) ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ✔️
Eufy Cam 2 (T8114/T8114-Z) ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ✔️
Eufy Cam 2 Pro (T8140/T8140-Z) ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ✔️
Eufy Cam 2C (T8113/T8113-Z) ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ✔️
Eufy Cam 2C Pro (T8142/T8142-Z) ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ✔️
Eufy Cam E (T8112) ✔️ ✔️ ✔️
Floodlight Camera (T8420) ✔️ ✔️
Floodlight Camera X (T8420X) ✔️ ✔️ ✔️
Indoor Cam 1080P (T8401) ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ✔️
Indoor Cam 2K (T8400) ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ✔️
Indoor Cam Pan & Tilt 1080P (T8411) ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ✔️
Indoor Cam Pan & Tilt 2K (T8410) ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ✔️
Motion Sensor (T8910) ✔️ ✔️
Eufy video doorbell 1080P (battery) (T8220 / T8220-Z / T8222 / T8222-Z) ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ✔️
Eufy video doorbell 1080P (powered) (T8221 / T8201) ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ✔️
Eufy video doorbell 2K (battery) (T8210) ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ✔️
Eufy video doorbell 2K (powered) (T8200 / T8202) ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ✔️

Also, the Door Sensor (T8900) is supported, this generates a separate sensor, based on door open/closed events.

All push messages from all devices are logged, click here to help with adding support for new devices or message types that aren't supported yet.

Setup

Configuration

In the data directory, you will need to create a config.yml file with your credentials. You can copy this from config.example.yml. It should contain the following contents:

eufy:
  username: "your@email"
  password: "password"
mqtt:
  url: "mqtt://dockerhost:1883"
  username: "user"
  password: "password"
  keepalive: 60
home_assistant:
  off_delay: 5

Only the Eufy username and password and MQTT url are required. Also MQTT username and password when set at the broker. The other options can be omitted, with the defaults shown above.

  • MQTT keepalive: adjusts the keepalive interval for the MQTT connection. This is the maximum interval in seconds between messages to/from the MQTT broker. Set this higher when you encounter disconnects.
  • Home Assistant off_delay: Sets the delay in seconds after which a motion/doorbell sensor is set back to "No motion" after motion is detected.

Data folder

The data folder contains the config, logs and a record of all push notifications (so new types of notifications can be discovered). Mount this directory to a local folder. Replace /path/to/local/data/folder in the Docker setups below with the location where you want to store this data.

Connecting to MQTT

If you run your MQTT broker on the same host as this Docker image, it cannot simply connect to localhost from inside this Docker image. In that case, add a line to add the correct IP for the Docker network inside the image as dockerhost. You can then use mqtt://dockerhost:1883 as the MQTT url. Otherwise, you can remove that line from the example below.

Run via Docker

Run the container, with a volume mapping to the local data directory, for example:

docker run \
   -d \
   --name eufy-bridge \
   -v /path/to/local/data/folder:/app/data \
   --add-host=dockerhost:`docker network inspect --format='{{range .IPAM.Config}}{{.Gateway}}{{end}}' bridge` \
   matijse/eufy-ha-mqtt-bridge

Or add it to a Docker Compose file:

services:
  eufy-bridge:
    container_name: eufy-bridge
    image: matijse/eufy-ha-mqtt-bridge
    volumes:
      - /path/to/local/data/folder:/app/data

If for some reason the connection with MQTT is lost, all sensors will be marked Unavailable in Home Assistant. So I recommend not auto-restarting the Docker image, but adding an automation to Home Assistant to notify yourself when a sensor is Unavailable. This prevents your account from getting blocked when the script keeps restarting due to a bug...

Run via npm

To run directly via npm:

  1. Clone this repository
  2. Create a config.yml file in the data folder, for contents see above.
  3. Run npm install
  4. Run npm run start or npm run dev to see debug output.

Run as Home Assistant Add-on

MaxWinterstein created a Home Assistant Add-on Repository containing an easy installable version of this bridge. See MaxWinterstein/homeassistant-addons for more information.

Manually adding sensors

When you have automatic discovery via MQTT disabled, you can add the binary sensors manually via YAML configuration:

Replace {device_sn} by the serial number of the device, for example T8140P0123456789

Motion detected:

binary_sensor:
  - platform: mqtt
    name: Camera motion detected
    device_class: motion
    state_topic: homeassistant/binary_sensor/eufy/{device_sn}_motion/state
    json_attributes_topic: homeassistant/binary_sensor/eufy/{device_sn}_motion/attributes
    payload_on: motion
    payload_off: clear
    off_delay: 5

Doorbell button pressed:

binary_sensor:
  - platform: mqtt
    name: Doorbell button pressed
    device_class: motion
    state_topic: homeassistant/binary_sensor/eufy/{device_sn}_doorbell/state
    json_attributes_topic: homeassistant/binary_sensor/eufy/{device_sn}_doorbell/attributes
    payload_on: motion
    payload_off: clear
    off_delay: 5

Crying detected:

binary_sensor:
  - platform: mqtt
    name: Crying detected
    device_class: sound
    state_topic: homeassistant/binary_sensor/eufy/{device_sn}_crying/state
    json_attributes_topic: homeassistant/binary_sensor/eufy/{device_sn}_crying/attributes
    payload_on: crying
    payload_off: clear
    off_delay: 5

Thumbnail of last event:

camera:
  - platform: mqtt
    name: Camera - Last event
    topic: homeassistant/camera/eufy/{device_sn}_thumbnail