DahuaVTO2MQTT

Listens to events from Dahua VTO, Camera, NVR unit and publishes them via MQTT Message

Tested Models - Should work with all Dahua devices

Environment Variables

DAHUA_VTO_HOST: 			Dahua VTO hostname or IP
DAHUA_VTO_USERNAME: 		Dahua VTO username to access (should be admin)
DAHUA_VTO_PASSWORD: 		Dahua VTO administrator password (same as accessing web management)
MQTT_BROKER_HOST: 			MQTT Broker hostname or IP
MQTT_BROKER_PORT: 			MQTT Broker port, default=1883
MQTT_BROKER_USERNAME: 		MQTT Broker username
MQTT_BROKER_PASSWORD: 		MQTT Broker password
MQTT_BROKER_TOPIC_PREFIX: 	MQTT Broker topic prefix, default=DahuaVTO
DEBUG:                      Minimum log level (Debug / Info), default=False

Run manually

Requirements:

All environment variables above

python3 DahuaVTO.py

Docker Compose

version: '2'
services:
  dahuavto2mqtt:
    image: "eladbar/dahuavto2mqtt:latest"
    container_name: "dahuavto2mqtt"
    hostname: "dahuavto2mqtt"
    restart: always
    environment:
      - DAHUA_VTO_HOST=vto-host
      - DAHUA_VTO_USERNAME=Username
      - DAHUA_VTO_PASSWORD=Password
      - MQTT_BROKER_HOST=mqtt-host
      - MQTT_BROKER_PORT=1883
      - MQTT_BROKER_USERNAME=Username
      - MQTT_BROKER_PASSWORD=Password 
      - MQTT_BROKER_TOPIC_PREFIX=DahuaVTO
      - DEBUG=False

Commands

Open Door

By publishing MQTT message of {MQTT_BROKER_TOPIC_PREFIX}/Command/Open an HTTP request to the unit will be sent, If the payload of the message is empty, default door to open is 1, If unit supports more than 1 door, please add to the payload Door parameter with the number of the door

Changelog

2020-Dec-11
- Changed MQTT Client to Mosquitto\Client
- Use one connection with keep alive
- Update MQTT Events
2020-Oct-21 - Reverted connection to per message, docker based image changed to php:7.4.11-cli
2020-Oct-12 - Added deviceType and serialNumber to MQTT message's payload, Improved connection to one time instead of per message
2020-Sep-04 - Edit Readme file, Added Supported Models and MQTT Events documentation
2020-Mar-27 - Added new environment variable - MQTT_BROKER_TOPIC_PREFIX
2020-Feb-03 - Initial version combing the event listener with MQTT
2021-Jan-01 - Ported to Python
2021-Jan-02 - MQTT Keep Alive, log level control via DEBUG env. variable
2021-Jan-15 - Fix #19 - Reset connection after power failure or disconnection
2021-Jan-21
- Added open door action when publishing an MQTT message with the topic - {MQTT_BROKER_TOPIC_PREFIX}/Command/Open
- Reset connection when server sends EOF message gracefully instead of WARNING asyncio socket.send() raised exception
2021-04-22
- Fix Invalid syntax in DahuaVTO.py line 117 #41
- Added support for Door ID in DahuaVTO/Command/Open MQTT command #29
2021-04-23
- Fix Open Door error
2021-04-24
- Removed certificate verification when using SSL #31
2021-04-30
- Changed MQTT message published log level to DEBUG
- Fix DahuaVTOClient doesn't handle packets larger than Ethernet frame #37
2021-05-27
- Added Lock State status to prevent duplicate attempts of unlock (which led to error log message since the unit didn't allow that operation)
- Publish MQTT message with the lock status, more details in the Dahua VTO MQTT Events - examples section
- SSL support using new environment variable DAHUA_VTO_SSL
2021-05-28
- All requests to Dahua unit are using socket (except open lock)

Credits

All credits goes to @riogrande75 who wrote that complicated integration Original code can be found in @riogrande75/Dahua

joelrfcosta / DahuaVTO2MQTT