Caution
READ THIS BEFORE UPDATING
This is not an update to the plugin you already have. It is a new plugin that replaces it.
1. Check your Homebridge and Node versions first
You need Homebridge 2 and Node.js 24.5.0 or newer. On anything older this plugin simply will
not start.
2. Your current cameras and sensors will not carry over
The new plugin creates its own accessories in the Home app. The ones you have now stay behind as
"not responding" and you delete them yourself.
3. You will have to redo your rooms, names and automations
Once. Any automation using a eufy camera, sensor, lock or light will need to be pointed at the new
accessory. Take a screenshot of your automations before you start.
4. Your existing eufy settings are not reused
You set the plugin up again from scratch: log in, and configure it in the Homebridge UI.
5. Back up before you touch anything
In the Homebridge UI: Backup / Restore → Download Backup.
6. If your home depends on this working, wait a little
Version 4.7.2 still works today and is not going anywhere. Try this beta somewhere a camera going
dark is annoying rather than a problem.
But read the next point before deciding to stay on it.
7. Version 4.x is no longer being worked on
All maintenance from here goes to 5.x only. No fixes, no new devices, no eufy changes followed on
4.x — it is frozen at 4.7.2 and stays installable, nothing more. If eufy changes something on their
side that breaks 4.x, it will not be repaired.
So staying on 4.x is fine for now, and it is not a long-term plan.
Fixed
- Person detection: person and stranger detections trigger the camera's motion sensor in Home again. The plugin also starts on the newer eufy library without rejecting your devices (#1142).
Updated eufy library (SDK 0.4.0-beta.18 to 0.4.0-beta.23)
- Live view: a connection that has stopped answering is no longer reused for a new live view.
- Diagnostics files now say why a camera could not be reached, and list each notification eufy sent with what it meant, so more reports can be answered from the first file.
Still open
- No streaming from an S1 Pro base (#1089).
- Some standalone doorbells never connect, so no live view or snapshot (#1124, #1141).
- On some setups the Home app never shows the live view, though snapshots work (#1140).
- Standalone cameras freeze when a live view is opened again quickly (#1127).
- Motion from eufyCam 3 behind a HomeBase 3 does not reach Home (#1114).
- The HomeBase siren is not in HomeKit yet (#1129).