I figured I’d pass this along in the case that anyone found it useful.
I am basically an Apple user - iPhone / iPad / Apple TVs / HomeKit.
Though Vivint (pretty basic) and ADC (more flexible) have the ability to do some automation - the system(s) can’t see all the other devices in my home - so automation is pretty limited.
When I was using vivint - there was a homebridge plugin that connected to Vivint and then exposed everything found in HomeKit. It also let me view cameras live via HomeKit.
I missed that with ADC. I was able to find a nice plugin that integrates ADC - and allowed me to see and control the panel, locks, garage door, and sensors.
however there was a limitation for viewing cameras. most of the camera plugins rely on RSTP - which the ADC cameras do not support.
I recently found another githhub project:
which I was able to install in a docker container to connect to my ADC cameras.
Once I got that working - I was able to install the Camera FFmpeg plugin on homebridge, add the cameras there, and now they show up in Homekit.
Note - I did have an issue when trying to add all 7 of my cameras. after doing some troubleshooting it seems that there might be a limit of 4.
I read that the author was thinking about / working on a change that would eliminate the Homebridge / FFmpeg requirement. that would be great to help simplify the integration.
the only feature I miss is that when the doorbell button is pressed - I used to get a pop up on my AppleTVs. I just did some debugging and found the message that the acc-video-bridge is receiving from ADC - and I’m going to see if it’s easy to pass that event along to Homekit.
I was able to get through the adc-video-bridge installation by using the docs in the repo, and using that info for creating / configuring the cameras in the Camera FFmpeg plugin.
I did run into a couple of issues - and was able to use ChatGPT to get them fixed up.
Enjoy!