Amcrest AD410 Video Doorbell & Echo Show
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I really appreciate all the help and feedback. Unfortunately none of it worked. On a brighter note the new doorbell camera arrived and it works flawlessly with the built in Alexa skill :). I’ll be returning the Amcrest Camera.
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@tammymfreeman And what doorbell did you decided on, please ?
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@bill I went with the Foscam listed below. So far so good. It added to my NVR with no problem using Onvif and it announces to all my devices and shows the live video on the echo all using the native skill.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B093WBF4MD?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2_dt_b_product_details
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Was able to get a solution to work so that when the doorbell is rang it will show on the Echo Show. The quick and dirty explanation was to create an alexa routine connected to the binary sensor front_door_call_no_answered from Home Assistant and follow these videos to connect it to alexa:
For the tutorial to connect home assistant to alexa by everything smart home, I needed to make some small changes. In the Alexa development console, under permissions, turn on “Send Alexa Events”. In Home Assistant, edit the configuration.yaml file with the following values under smart_home
endpoint: https://api.amazonalexa.com/v3/events
client_id: YOUR_SKILL_CLIENT_ID
client_secret: YOUR_SKILL_CLIENT_SECRETReason why is because there needs to be a way for Home Assistant to push the state of the binary sensor to Alexa instead of Alexa pulling that data from Home Assistant.
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@tammymfreeman Sorry for my delay. Thank you for the info. It looks like a nice choice for sure, and I’m happy that it is working well for you. I had no idea that Foscam even had a doorbell. Continued success!! :relaxed:
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@justdo71 This looks great, but (maybe unfortunately) I do not use Home Assistant. I have my AD210 doorbell displaying fine (with audio also) through Monocle whenever I ask Alexa to show me the 'Doorbell". However when the doorbell is pressed Alexa only announces that someone is at the doorbell, but the camera doesn’t display anymore.
Of course the camera should display with the native Amcrest App itself without the need for Monocle, but that stopped working a while back. No idea why. :upside_down_face: