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I had to put the doorbell repeater/ chime closer to the doorbell. About 5-10 feet worked on the other side of the brick wall. Before that it kept trying to connect but would not play video. The problem is that the doorbell is Wi-Fi and not zigby. They have to be close together and it works flawlessly. Now it works great so far. Just wish I could get the chime farther from the door and I can hide the chime in case there was a break in and they steal the chime near the door.
Yeah the wireless connection back to the chime is a bit of a challenge. obvious hard part is getting power to the chime box. Depends what you're most worried about with a stolen chime. If it's the SD card and recordings, you could use Homekit Secure Video or push the videos to an SMB share.
Hi there, i saw you made a video showing how to popup video notification when a doorbell is pressed in apple tv. I have aqara as well. I need it to automatically stream video doorbell when it is presses IN FULL SCREEN, my apple tv os is 17, only can show PIP. Pls help
I believe with homekit, if you press a button on the AppleTV remote, it'll go full-screen, but it still requires user interaction. Depending on the TV, you MIGHT be able to integrate it into Home Assistant as a Media Player Device, and then setup an Automation to push the Camera Stream to that Media Player Device when the Dorbell button is pressed.
I went over the specs in the video and they're on the box..... It requires: 12-24V AC 50/60Hz, OR 8-24V DC 0.5A for the outdoor unit, and a USB-A Supply for the indoor unit. OR it'll run on 6 AA Batteries if you have a LONG cable run from the supply to the Outdoor unit, AC won't experience as much voltage drop.
@@HiveMindAutomation I have a POE power supply. I will mount it in the gate drive box because I have 220v there. Connect to the video doorbell with an RJ45 cable. About 10 meters
Hello. I just got my doorbell and it’s not recognizing face detection. I turned it on in my HomeKit and in the aqara app. I have mine with the batteries and not wired. I don’t know If that makes a difference. Not sure what I’m doing wrong. Any advice you may have? Thank you
I actually think running on batteries is why you're having trouble. IIRC, it doesn't handle facial recognition well on battery power, but it's worth reaching out to the manufacturer to ask them.
Great thorough review. One question: Does either the Aqra app or Homekit allow for notifications with image snapshots? I ask, since the aspect ratio doesn't show low enough to show packages, maybe the notification shows someone with a package in their hands. Thanks
Homekit's Push notification pushed a snapshot at the time the doorbell was pressed. It didn't show up on the recording because the iPhone suppressed the push notification because of how I was recording.
I have a problem installing the doorbell on the Aqara application. Just after the message “doorbell added to my home”,(27:33) I receive the error message “fails read/write operation. 74” during “ binding device”
Sounds annoying, I'm assuming you've reset everything and tried again? It's important to make sure everything is within range of each other. There's ~ 5 meters range between the chime and the doorbell unit, so bear that in mind
the aqara service found the error and the solution. My doorbell was not located in the same house as my apple hub. the doorbell therefore could not connect to the same wifi as the hub. it was therefore simply necessary to create another home in the HomeKit application
