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Utilizing Residence Assistant to combine a Unifi Defend G4 Doorbell and Amazon Alexa to announce guests

July 19, 2022

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510f I’m not a 510f Residence Assistant 510f knowledgeable, but it surely’s 510f clearly a large and highly 510f effective ecosystem. I’ve interviewed 510f the creator of Residence Assistant 510f on my podcast 510f and I encourage you 510f to take a look at 510f that chat.

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510f Residence Assistant can rapidly grow 510f to be a passion that 510f overwhelms you. Each object (entity) 510f in your home that’s even 510f remotely linked can grow to 510f be programmable. Every part. Even 510f folks! You possibly can declare 510f that any identify:worth pair that 510f (for instance) your cellphone can 510f expose could be consumable by 510f Residence Assistant. Questions like “is 510f Scott dwelling” or “what’s Scott’s 510f cellphone battery” could be related 510f to Scott the Entity within 510f the Residence Assistant Dashboard.

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510f I used to be amazed 510f on the units/objects that Residence 510f Assistant found that it might 510f automate. Lights, remotes, Spotify, and 510f extra. You may discover that 510f any internally linked gadget you 510f may have probably has an 510f Integration obtainable.

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510f Temperature, Mild Standing, positive, that 510f is simple Residence Automation. However 510f integrations and third social gathering 510f code can provide you particulars 510f like “Is the Dwelling Room 510f darkish” or “is there movement 510f within the driveway.” From these 510f constructing blocks, you possibly can 510f then construct your personal IFTTT 510f (If This Then That) automations, 510f combining not simply two methods, 510f however any and all disparate 510f methods.

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510f What’s one of the best 510f half? This all runs LOCALLY. 510f Not in a cloud or 510f the cloud or anybody’s cloud. 510f I’ve acquired my stuff working 510f on a 510f Raspberry Pi 4 510f . Even higher I put 510f a 510f Energy Over Ethernet (PoE) hat 510f on my Rpi 510f so I’ve only one 510f community wire into my hub 510f that powers the Pi.

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510f I imagine establishing 510f Residence Assistant on a Pi 510f is one of the 510f best and best option to 510f get began. That mentioned, it’s 510f also possible to run in 510f a Docker Container, on a 510f Synology or different NAS, or 510f simply on Home windows or 510f Mac within the background. It 510f is as much as you. 510f Optionally, you possibly can pay 510f 510f Nabu Casa 510f $5 for distant (exterior 510f your home) community entry through 510f clear forwarding. However to be 510f clear, all of it nonetheless 510f runs inside your home and 510f never within the cloud.

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510f OK, to the primary level. 510f I used to have an 510f Amazon Ring Doorbell that might 510f combine with Amazon Alexa and 510f while you pressed the doorbell 510f it could say “Somebody is 510f on the entrance door” on 510f our all Alexas. It was 510f a stunning little integration that 510f labored properly in our lives.

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510f Nevertheless, I swapped out the 510f Ring for a 510f Unifi Defend G4 Doorbell 510f for a variety of 510f causes. I do not wish 510f to pump video to exterior 510f providers, so this doorbell integrates 510f properly with my 510f current Unifi set up 510f and information video to 510f a neighborhood exhausting drive. Nevertheless, 510f I lose any Alexa integration 510f and this good little “somebody 510f is on the door” announcement. 510f So this looks like an 510f ideal job for Residence Assistant.

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510f This is the overall todo 510f record:

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510f Set up 510f Residence Assistant

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510f Set up 510f Residence Assistant Group Retailer

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510f This allows third social gathering 510f “untrusted” integrations straight from GitHub. 510f You may want a GitHub 510f account and it will clone 510f customized integrations straight into your 510f native HA.

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510f I additionally advocate the Terminal 510f & SSH (9.2.2), File editor 510f (5.3.3) add ons so you 510f possibly can see what’s taking 510f place.

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510f Get the 510f UniFi Defend third social gathering 510f integration for Residence Assistant

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510f NOTE 510f : Unifi Defend help is 510f being promoted in Residence Assistant 510f v2022.2 so you will not 510f want this step quickly because 510f it’ll be included.

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510f “The UniFi Defend Integration provides 510f help for retrieving Digicam feeds 510f and Sensor knowledge from a 510f UniFi Defend set up on 510f both an Ubiquiti CloudKey+, Ubiquiti 510f UniFi Dream Machine Professional or 510f UniFi Defend Community Video Recorder.”

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510f Authenticate and configure this integration.

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510f Get the 510f Alexa Media Participant 510f integration

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510f This makes all of your 510f Alexas present up in Residence 510f Assistant as “media gamers” and 510f likewise lets you tts (textual 510f content to speech) to them.

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510f Authenticate and configure this integration.

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510f I like to recommend going 510f into your Alexa app and 510f making a Multi-room Speaker Group 510f referred to as “in every 510f single place.” Not solely as 510f a result of it is 510f good to have the ability 510f to say “play the music 510f in every single place” however 510f it’s also possible to goal 510f that “In every single place” 510f group in Residence Assistant.

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510f Go into your Residence Assistant 510f UI at 510f http://homeassistant.native:8123/ 510f and into 510f Developer Instruments 510f . Underneath Providers, attempt pasting 510f on this YAML and clicking 510f “name service.”

 510f service: notify.alexa_media_everywhere
knowledge:
  message: Somebody  510f is on the entrance door,  510f it is a check
   510f knowledge:
    sort:  510f announce
    methodology:  510f communicate

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510f If that works, you understand 510f you possibly can automate Alexa 510f and make it say issues. 510f Now, go to Configuration, Automation, 510f and Add a brand new 510f Automation. This is mine. I 510f used the UI to create 510f it. Word that your Entity 510f names could also be totally 510f different for those who give 510f your entrance doorbell digicam a 510f distinct identify.

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510f Discover the format of Knowledge, 510f it is identify worth pairs 510f inside a single subject’s worth.

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510f …but it surely additionally exists 510f in a file referred to 510f as Automations.yaml. Word that the 510f “to: ‘on'” set off is 510f required otherwise you’ll get double 510f bulletins, one for 510f every state change 510f within the doorbell.

 510f - id: '1640995128073'
  alias:  510f G4 Doorbell Announcement with Alexa
  510f  description: G4 Doorbell Announcement  510f with Alexa
  set off:
  510f  - platform: state
   510f   entity_id: binary_sensor.front_door_doorbell
   510f   to: 'on'
   510f situation: []
  motion:
   510f - service: notify.alexa_media_everywhere
    510f  knowledge:
     510f   knowledge:
    510f       510f sort: announce
     510f     methodology:  510f communicate
      510f  message: Somebody is on  510f the entrance door
  mode:  510f single

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510f It really works! There is 510f a ton of cool stuff 510f I can automate now!

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510f About Scott

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510f Scott Hanselman is a former 510f professor, former Chief Architect in 510f finance, now speaker, marketing consultant, 510f father, diabetic, and Microsoft worker. 510f He’s a failed stand-up comedian, 510f a cornrower, and a e-book 510f writer.

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