motionEye
motioneye
The motionEye integration allows you to integrate your motionEye server into Home Assistant. motionEye is an open source web-frontend for the motion daemon, used to centralize the management and visualization of multiple types of cameras.
In Apple Home through HomeKit Bridge
What HomeKit Bridge makes of each kind of entity this integration creates, read from its source code. A device only gets the ones that apply to it.
| Entity | Shows up as | Note |
|---|---|---|
switch | Switch or outlet | |
camera | Camera | Needs its own HomeKit Bridge in accessory mode |
What people report
- Works2
- Partly works1
| Device | In Home Assistant | In Apple Home | What they said | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EZVIZ camera | Works Local | Solid RTSP stream; Wyze Sense contact sensor in chime catches doorbell eventsSaved copyI just bought the ezviz camera from bestbuy Canada. https://www.bestbuy.ca/en-ca/product/ezviz-db1-wi-fi-video-doorbell-white/13549934 It was on sale for $129 and I have been super happy with it so far. RTSP stream is solid and works great with motioneye. I also used a wyze sense contact sensor in my chime to capture the doorbell event for home assistant. Excerpt saved from the Arctic Shift Reddit archive on 2026-10-23. | Reddit comment · 2020-01 | |
| Tapo C210 camera | Works | Integration easy and stableSaved copyI use tapo c210 and the Integration is easy & they are stable. They are Setup with motioneye Excerpt saved from the Arctic Shift Reddit archive on 2026-10-23. | Reddit comment · 2024-02 | |
| Wyze v2/v3 cameras | Partly works Local | Works via MotionEye with extra docker containerSaved copyHi. The system I currently have checks all your boxes, especially the price sensitive one. I have wyze v2 and v3 cameras (v3 are way nicer, especially for outside) that connect to MotionEye inside Home Assistant. To interface between Wyze v3 and Motioneye I use another docker container to log into the cameras and create rtsp streams. To make things more interesting, I added another docker container for image recognition (DeepStack), triggered from Node Red. This way I have access to all the metrics - how many people are in the shot, xy coordinates of the identified objects, etc. This system … Excerpt saved from the Arctic Shift Reddit archive on 2026-10-23. | Reddit comment · 2021-08 |
Gathered from GitHub issues, pull requests, discussions and docs, and from r/homeassistant. These are individual reports, so check the linked thread and the date before you buy.
How it connects
Local polling
Talks to the device on your network, asking it for updates every so often.
Details
| Installs (analytics) | 2,513 (0.35%) |
|---|---|
| Added in | Home Assistant 2021.5 |
| Set up in the UI | Yes |
| Maintainers | @dermotduffy |
In ReReHome
Whatever HomeKit Bridge shares reaches Apple Home as normal HomeKit accessories behind your Home Assistant bridge, so ReReHome shows and controls them like any other.
Bridges get their own settings page listing the accessories behind them.
