YI Hack to MQTT

Description

A small wrapper in NestJs to transform the YI Hack All Winner webgui or ssh to a MQTT Provider.

At this moment is tested only with YI Hack All Winner Camera

It also have an integrated with Home Assistant to MQTT Discovery.

This is wrapper is inspired by Zigbee2MQTT Home Assistant Integration and Shelly Discovery

USE AT YOUR OWN RISK.

Installation

$ npm install

Running the app

# development
$ npm run start

# watch mode
$ npm run start:dev

# production mode
$ npm run start:prod

Configuration

Create a configuration.yaml with these parameter:

homeassistant: 
  announce: true
    # Optional: Home Assistant discovery topic (default: homeassistant )
  prefix: homeassistant
global:
  # Optional: Manifacturer of the device
  manufacturer: 'YI'
  # Optional: Model of the device
  model: 'YI Hack'
  provider: 
    # Optional: Provider of the connection (default: http )
    # possible options: 'http', 'ssh'
    source: http
    # Optional: User for the connection (default: root )
    user: root
    # Optional: Password for the connection ( default empty)
    password: password
mqtt:
  # Required: MQTT base topic for MQTT messages
  base_topic: yicam
  # Required: MQTT server URL 
  # Is accepted the format mqtt(s)://admin:password@hostname
  # for example mqtt://admin:[email protected]
  server: 'mqtt://192.168.0.100'
  # Options for mqtt
  # The options is defined in https://github.com/mqttjs/mqtt-packet#connect
  options: 
cameras:
  'yi-cam-01':
    mqtt_prefix: 'yicam/yi-cam-01'
    friendly_name: 'Yi Camera 01'
    ip: '192.168.0.101'
  'yi-cam-02':
    mqtt_prefix: 'yicam/yi-cam-02'
    friendly_name: 'Yi Camera 02'
    ip: '192.168.0.102'
    # Required: Disable availability_topic for HomeAssistant ( default true)
    availability_topic: false
  'yi-cam-03':
    mqtt_prefix: 'yicam/yi-cam-03'
    friendly_name: 'Yi Camera 03'
    ip: '192.168.0.103'

MQTT Topic and structure

<yicam>/info/get

Allow to retriew all status for all the camera configurated.

Example:

mosquitto_pub -h broker –t yicam/info/get

<yicam>/<yi-camera>/info/get

Allow to retriew all status for the camera <yi-camera> configurated.

Example:

mosquitto_pub -h broker –t yicam/yi-cam-01/info/get

<yicam>/links/get

Allow to retriew all links for all the camera configurated.

Example:

mosquitto_pub -h broker –t yicam/links/get

<yicam>/<yi-camera>/links/get

Allow to retriew all links for all the camera configurated.

Example:

mosquitto_pub -h broker –t yicam/yi-cam-01/links/get

<yicam>/<yi-camera>/config/get

Allow to retriew all configs for all the camera configurated.

Example:

mosquitto_pub -h broker –t yicam/yi-cam-01/config/get –m yes

<yicam>/<yi-camera>/config/<config>/set

Allow to configure a command with payload yes or no: The <config> allowed are:

• SWITCH_ON
• SAVE_VIDEO_ON_MOTION
• AI_HUMAN_DETECTION
• LED
• ROTATE
• IR

Or SENSITIVITY with payload high,medium,low

Example:

mosquitto_pub -h broker –t yicam/yi-cam-01/config/LED/set –m yes

<yicam>/announce

Launch the announce mqtt discovery for Home Assistant

Home Assistant Configuration

# automations.yaml file
- id: yicam_announce
  alias: 'YiCam Announce'
  trigger:
    - platform: homeassistant
      event: start
    - platform: time_pattern
      hours: "/1"
  action:
    service: mqtt.publish
    data:
      topic: yicam/announce
- id: yicam_info_get
  alias: 'YiCam Get Information'
  trigger:
    - platform: homeassistant
      event: start
    - platform: time_pattern
      minutes: '/2'
  action:
    - service: mqtt.publish
      data:
        topic: yicam/info/get
    - service: mqtt.publish
      data:
        topic: yicam/config/get
    - service: mqtt.publish
      data:
        topic: yicam/links/get

Lovelace

This is an example of lovelace configuration:

type: entities
entities:
  - entity: sensor.yi_camera_01_firmware_version
  - entity: sensor.yi_camera_01_home_version_2
  - entity: sensor.yi_camera_01_model_suffix_2
  - entity: sensor.yi_camera_01_serial_number_2
  - type: divider
  - entity: binary_sensor.yi_camera_01_movement
    state_color: true
  - entity: binary_sensor.yi_camera_01_sound_detection_2
    state_color: true
  - entity: binary_sensor.yi_camera_01_human_detection
    state_color: true
  - type: divider
  - entity: switch.yi_camera_01_switch_status
  - entity: switch.yi_camera_01_baby_crying_2
  - entity: switch.yi_camera_01_status_led
  - entity: switch.yi_camera_01_ir_led
  - entity: switch.yi_camera_01_rotate_2
  - type: divider
  - entity: sensor.yi_camera_01_hostname
  - entity: sensor.yi_camera_01_local_ip
  - entity: sensor.yi_camera_01_netmask_2
  - entity: sensor.yi_camera_01_gateway_2
  - entity: sensor.yi_camera_01_mac_address
  - entity: sensor.yi_camera_01_wifi_essid
  - entity: sensor.yi_camera_01_wlan_strengh
  - type: divider
  - entity: sensor.yi_camera_01_uptime_2
  - entity: sensor.yi_camera_01_load_avg_2
  - entity: sensor.yi_camera_01_total_memory
  - entity: sensor.yi_camera_01_free_memory_2
  - entity: sensor.yi_camera_01_free_sd_2
show_header_toggle: false

Docker Run

In RasperryPi ( in raspbian ):

docker mkdir /home/pi/yi-hack-2-mqtt

Create and modify your configuration file:

nano configuration.yaml

docker run -it --name yi-hack-2-mqtt -d --restart unless-stopped -v /home/pi/configuration.yaml:/data/configuration.yaml enricoferro/yi-hack-2-mqtt:latest

Docker Enviroment

• LOG_LEVEL : Log level for the docker, allowed values: ALL, DEBUG , INFO, WARN, ERROR, OFF, TRACE
• CONFIGURATION_FILE: For change the default file of configuration

Docker Swarm

Create and modify your configuration file:

nano configuration.yaml
docker config create yi-hack-to-mqtt.configuration.yaml configuration.yaml

Lauch the docker compose for swarm:

docker stack deploy --compose-file docker-swarm-compose.yaml yi-hack-2-mqtt

License

• MIT licensed.

DISCLAIMER

NOBODY BUT YOU IS RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY USE OR DAMAGE THIS SOFTWARE MAY CAUSE. THIS IS INTENDED FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY. USE AT YOUR OWN RISK.