I have Eufy with the homebase 3.
Is there anyway to trigger the basestation siren via Hubitat? That would be very nice.
Seems unlikely, although that’s just a guess. Perhaps with a kludgy workaround, e.g. something with Alexa and virtual switches, if the eufy base station has an Alexa skill.
Have you asked the folks at Eufy what, if any, methods of integrating with outside systems they support?
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I also doubt you will be able to control the Eufy basestation siren via Hubitat.
I wanted to be able to control my Eufy homebase 2 security modes via Hubitat. It took me much time and effort but I was able to control the security modes from Hubitat, but required the purchase and installation of a RaspberryPi, Iobroker software platform, and a driver written by @scottmil. I checked the driver and it does not include the control of the siren.
You might be better off purchasing a separate Z-Wave or Zigbee siren.
In that case, thinking the other way now.. if Eufy alarm goes off.. is there some way to let Hubitat also know?
You can send events from the IOBroker/Eufy-Security adapter to MQTT, and use a community app on the hub to subscribe to the events from MQTT. That would allow you to incorporate events from the Eufy base station in hub automations.
Oh interesting.... but what is an eufy-security adapter to mqtt? A quick search did not reveal much.
The Eufy Security adapter runs in IOBroker, so it all starts with getting that running. For that you need an always-on computer running Docker, and IOBroker installs under Docker.
Once you have IOBroker running, installing adapters is done via a relatively simple web interface with just a search and a few clicks.
There should be plenty of tutorials on what MQTT is online. I'm sure if I tried to explain it, I'd get it slightly wrong. Under IOBroker you can also run a MQTT adapter that will create a MQTT server and also enable client connections:
The Eufy adapter connects to your Eufy account and home base. As I understand it, it acts like an instance of the phone app. You'll need to use a separate username and password as Eufy only allows one connection at a time per user, and you want this to stay connected when you use your phone app.
Once it's connected, you'll find a list of all the variables and events the adapter can see in IOBroker. You can set it up to send a message to the MQTT server when a variable changes or an event happens.
The last piece is to set up the hub to listen for the MQTT messages, which can be done using a community app. I use this one, but there are probably other options:
If you're able to get IOBroker running on a Pi (or other always-on computer), I'd be happy to help via PM wherever you hit any roadblocks completing the rest of the setup.
It definitely isn't a simple setup since there are multiple parts, each with its own learning curve.
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