Pretty close on first edition. Still working.
Please keep us in the loop
Still having some issues with the battery-powered and H200 Hub (part of the development). I will stop the H200 work and caveat the use of the driver on battery powered cameras / doorbell. Still take a couple of weeks (with a hospital visit in the middle).
I too a divergence to clear my mind and did the Kasa doorbell and camera. They should be out tomorrow and will be a model of commands and preferences for the Tapo versions.
Out of curiosity, will the bark detection be detected in hubitat using this integration for the camera? I'm using an echo for bark detection, but trying to minimise false detection (another topic I posted). This may be an alternative detector I could use as the Tapo cameras are cheap.
Not immediately. There is a delay of about one minute from detection until the trigger (bark) can be reported. Tapo reports the trigger type in the VoD message that is only created when the recording is completed.
There is a work-around that will require integrating the camera with Amazon Alexa, a Hubitat Virtual device linked to the Hubitat Amazon Echo Skill, and then a rule in Amazon that sets the Hubitat virtual device when the camera reports a bark.
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Great to see this is being worked on. I have a tapo solar powered external camera C402 but I think the camera is the same a the internal models. I noticed it works with smartthings and I'm trying to move away form that and use hubitat exclusively. BTW thanks for all your historical work with tp link devices.
That will work. It seems that this means tapo integration only into Amazon. No need for this integration in this case?
I already integrate switches from hubitat to Amazon. And a virtual motion sensor from hubitat to trigger Amazon routines.
This question definitely falls outside this integration... However I can't find this info online easily.
If I had a choice between the following which would be better ?
- detecting barking with tapo cam integrated to Amazon (like you mentioned)
- or detect with tapo cam and sent to my Blue Iris pc which I was going to integrate anyway
Either way I am using my echo for bark detection, switch(s) in hubitat integrated to Amazon, virtual motion sensor to trigger Amazon routine, and blue iris to start recording for both options. So the difference is really only the bark detection message from tapo whether it goes to Amazon or blue iris.
I'm not sure how the Tapo bark detection works but assume my blue iris isn't going to specifically get an onvif barking event that it can detect.. maybe just a general Audio trigger?
Thanks from me too. I use my tapo (and kasa) based smart plugs in hubitat for daily rules due to their work. They have been very reliable
The battery powered devices are kind of strange. They cut functionality (w/o advertising) to save battery life. I had the code done, but got VERY frustrated with the battery powered.
I will need comments on the battery powered implementations plus some user testing to determine work-arounds.
I have received my tapo camera. Any ideas if the bark detection status (as in notice it was triggered) will be available to hubitat?
Is this a different question from the one you asked 2 days ago (that was answered in post #25 above)?
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Woops. My mind has been thinking about way too much. That slipped my mind.
Unfortunately I can only see motion as a trigger in Amazon routines for the Tapo camera.
I have found an usual way by using tapo app smarts to detect when a bark is detected that then turns a tapo plug on that I'm not using for anything else, and then hubitat detects that the switch was turned on which triggers a hubitat rule. Then it turns the switch back off after a short period of time.
Still working. Still working. Please be patient. I have a lot of distractions.
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Apologies if I sounded impatient. Curious (and keen) yes. I have solution for now anyway 
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Sorry if I seamed short. I have a lot of personal concerns on my mind. You DID NOTHING WRONG.
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