HA MQTT issue if having more than 1 camera

[Minims]

I have 2 Yi Home 1080p with MQTT advertise enabled. Exact same model. hostname et device config have differents name. I have setup the first one , all is OK. Once i setup the 2nd one, I got this error, and I can't have my entity in HA anymore :-/

The issue is that the uniqueID is not unique. might be related to https://github.com/roleoroleo/yi-hack-Allwinner-v2/commit/89df2ef1d8b211e685f30ab52c8d933d88c25860

Both camera give the same ID to HA :

ERROR (MainThread) [homeassistant.components.binary_sensor] Platform mqtt does not generate unique IDs. ID motion_detection already exists - ignoring binary_sensor.yi_home_1080p_bureau_movement
ERROR (MainThread) [homeassistant.components.binary_sensor] Platform mqtt does not generate unique IDs. ID ai_human_detection already exists - ignoring binary_sensor.yi_home_1080p_bureau_human_detection
ERROR (MainThread) [homeassistant.components.binary_sensor] Platform mqtt does not generate unique IDs. ID ai_vehicle_detection already exists - ignoring binary_sensor.yi_home_1080p_bureau_vehicle_detection
ERROR (MainThread) [homeassistant.components.binary_sensor] Platform mqtt does not generate unique IDs. ID ai_animal_detection already exists - ignoring binary_sensor.yi_home_1080p_bureau_animal_detection
ERROR (MainThread) [homeassistant.components.binary_sensor] Platform mqtt does not generate unique IDs. ID sound_detection already exists - ignoring binary_sensor.yi_home_1080p_bureau_sound_detection
ERROR (MainThread) [homeassistant.components.camera] Platform mqtt does not generate unique IDs. ID motion_detection_image already exists - ignoring camera.yi_home_1080p_bureau_motion_detection_image
ERROR (MainThread) [homeassistant.components.switch] Platform mqtt does not generate unique IDs. ID SWITCH_ON already exists - ignoring switch.yi_home_1080p_bureau_switch_status
ERROR (MainThread) [homeassistant.components.switch] Platform mqtt does not generate unique IDs. ID SAVE_VIDEO_ON_MOTION already exists - ignoring switch.yi_home_1080p_bureau_save_video_on_motion
ERROR (MainThread) [homeassistant.components.switch] Platform mqtt does not generate unique IDs. ID MOTION_DETECTION already exists - ignoring switch.yi_home_1080p_bureau_motion_detection
ERROR (MainThread) [homeassistant.components.select] Platform mqtt does not generate unique IDs. ID SENSITIVITY already exists - ignoring select.yi_home_1080p_bureau_detection_sensitivity
ERROR (MainThread) [homeassistant.components.switch] Platform mqtt does not generate unique IDs. ID AI_HUMAN_DETECTION already exists - ignoring switch.yi_home_1080p_bureau_ai_human_detection
ERROR (MainThread) [homeassistant.components.switch] Platform mqtt does not generate unique IDs. ID AI_VEHICLE_DETECTION already exists - ignoring switch.yi_home_1080p_bureau_ai_vehicle_detection
ERROR (MainThread) [homeassistant.components.switch] Platform mqtt does not generate unique IDs. ID AI_ANIMAL_DETECTION already exists - ignoring switch.yi_home_1080p_bureau_ai_animal_detection
ERROR (MainThread) [homeassistant.components.switch] Platform mqtt does not generate unique IDs. ID FACE_DETECTION already exists - ignoring switch.yi_home_1080p_bureau_face_detection
ERROR (MainThread) [homeassistant.components.switch] Platform mqtt does not generate unique IDs. ID MOTION_TRACKING already exists - ignoring switch.yi_home_1080p_bureau_motion_tracking_sensor
ERROR (MainThread) [homeassistant.components.switch] Platform mqtt does not generate unique IDs. ID SOUND_DETECTION already exists - ignoring switch.yi_home_1080p_bureau_sound_detection
ERROR (MainThread) [homeassistant.components.number] Platform mqtt does not generate unique IDs. ID SOUND_SENSITIVITY already exists - ignoring number.yi_home_1080p_bureau_sound_detection_sensitivity
ERROR (MainThread) [homeassistant.components.switch] Platform mqtt does not generate unique IDs. ID LED already exists - ignoring switch.yi_home_1080p_bureau_status_led
ERROR (MainThread) [homeassistant.components.switch] Platform mqtt does not generate unique IDs. ID IR already exists - ignoring switch.yi_home_1080p_bureau_ir_led

[alexh3o]

Hi, i have the same issue since release 0.30. Entities get mixed up between cameras. It's impossible to use discovery to add more than one camera, the entities exist only one each for the whole of cameras, randomly distributed on cameras. I noticed that the discovery payload is like this

{ "availability_topic": "camera/yicamsfus/status", "payload_available": "online", "payload_not_available": "offline", "device": { "identifiers": [ "yicamsfus" ], "connections": [ [ "mac", "20:57:9e:xx:xx:xx" ] ], "manufacturer": "Yi", "model": "SFUS", "name": "YiCamSFUS", "sw_version": "0.3.0", "configuration_url": "http://192.168.1.xx:80" }, "retain": true, "icon": "mdi:video", "state_topic": "camera/yicamsfus/camera_setting", "name": " Switch Status", "unique_id": "SWITCH_ON", "value_template": "{{ value_json.SWITCH_ON }}", "platform": "mqtt", "command_topic": "camera/yicamsfus/camera_setting/SWITCH_ON/set", "payload_on": "yes", "payload_off": "no", "entity_category": "config" }

Modifying it by distinguishing name and unique_id solves the issue, but that is tedious (i have 4 cameras using Yi Hack).

{ "availability_topic": "camera/yicamsfus/status", "payload_available": "online", "payload_not_available": "offline", "device": { "identifiers": [ "yicamsfus" ], "connections": [ [ "mac", "20:57:9e:xx:xx:xx" ] ], "manufacturer": "Yi", "model": "SFUS", "name": "YiCamSFUS", "sw_version": "0.3.0", "configuration_url": "http://192.168.1.xx:80" }, "retain": true, "icon": "mdi:video", "state_topic": "camera/yicamsfus/camera_setting", "name": "YiCamSFUS Switch Status", "unique_id": "YiCamSFUS SWITCH_ON", "value_template": "{{ value_json.SWITCH_ON }}", "platform": "mqtt", "command_topic": "camera/yicamsfus/camera_setting/SWITCH_ON/set", "payload_on": "yes", "payload_off": "no", "entity_category": "config" }

I think it's related to a fix done in the last release relative to a HA mqtt warning, but now it's all broken :(

[roleoroleo]

Recent changes to naming conventions are hard to understand.

The issue is that the uniqueID is not unique. might be related to 89df2ef

Yes.

Sorry but I can't test this issue because my HA installation is not working in this moment. Please try to restore the previous commented line (109) in mqtt_adv_homeassistant.sh:

#  UNIQUE_ID="$2$IDENTIFIERS"
  UNIQUE_ID="$2"

to

  UNIQUE_ID="$2$IDENTIFIERS"
#  UNIQUE_ID="$2"

and test it.

[alexh3o]

Hi, I did switch this line back to what it was in 0.29. I didn't get HA logs warnings anymore but I still couldn't get all sensors for all cameras. I had also reverted the line for UNIQUE_NAME to v0.29 version:

# [ -n "$3" ] && UNIQUE_NAME="$NAME $3" I am not confident that I did everything right because I struggled quite a bit touching everything, maybe @Minims can test too ?

In the end, I left this line as in 0.29, and then I switched to your yi-hack home assistant integration, after disabling mqtt discovery in all cameras. Then everything worked with the integration (I didn't test the integration with 0.30 line versions). This is for 3 cameras with allwinner2 hack and 1 with the mstar-hack (problem was the same with mstar).

[roleoroleo]

This is the whole file: mqtt_adv_homeassistant.sh.gz The line UNIQUE_NAME shouldn't restored. The new one is compliant with the new naming convention.

[Minims]

Hello,

I have removed my 2 MQTT camera devices from HA, update mqtt_adv_homeassistant.sh to

  UNIQUE_ID="$2$IDENTIFIERS"
#  UNIQUE_ID="$2"

and reboot. Then, I have the entity for both camera and no warning in HA logs. Seems good to me.

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