D235 integration without camera account

[phardy2410]

Can we have a fork of the integration that doesn't need a camera account?

Tapo doesn't allow a camera account in battery only mode for the doorbell so I cannot integrate it into HA because the integration requires a camera account.

[JurajNyiri]

Feature request is here #760.
Once I have some time I will implement a switch to skip the step, PRs are welcomed as well.

For now one could workaround this issue by simply modifying the .storage config file to include the camera and it would work.

[phardy2410]

Thank you

[phardy2410]

For now one could workaround this issue by simply modifying the .storage config file to include the camera and it would work.

can you explain how to do this?

[JurajNyiri]

1. Make backup of .storage/core.config_entries. If you make a mistake, you will lose everything configured in HA or even HA will not start, so this is extremely important.
2. Modify .storage/core.config_entries, modifying and then adding the following object under data.entries list:

      {
        "created_at": "1970-01-01T00:00:00+00:00",
        "data": {
          "enable_stream": true,
          "enable_motion_sensor": false,
          "enable_sound_detection": false,
          "ip_address": "[REPLACE ME WITH IP]",
          "username": "",
          "password": "",
          "cloud_password": "[REPLACE ME WITH CLOUD PWD]",
          "enable_time_sync": false,
          "sound_detection_peak": -50,
          "sound_detection_duration": 1,
          "sound_detection_reset": 10,
          "extra_arguments": "",
          "custom_stream": "",
          "rtsp_transport": "udp",
          "enable_webhooks": false,
          "enable_media_sync": false,
          "media_sync_hours": 48,
          "media_sync_cold_storage_path": "",
          "media_view_days_order": "Ascending",
          "media_view_recordings_order": "Ascending",
          "update_interval_main": 30,
          "update_interval_battery": 600
        },
        "disabled_by": null,
        "domain": "tapo_control",
        "entry_id": "REPLACE WITH RANDOM HEX UUID - for example from https://www.somacon.com/p113.php (lowercase it) make sure its not already in this document",
        "minor_version": 1,
        "modified_at": "1970-01-01T00:00:00+00:00",
        "options": {},
        "pref_disable_new_entities": false,
        "pref_disable_polling": false,
        "source": "user",
        "title": "[REPLACE ME WITH NAME OF DEVICE]",
        "unique_id": "tapo_control[REPLACE ME WITH IP]",
        "version": 16
      },

3. Restart HA

[phardy2410]

probably the same or similar issue #794

I am not sure if #760 and #794 are the same thing or will be solved in the same way. But im not the dev so?! Not needing a camera account and keeping all the features as expected is the end goal for me. Just in this scenario where Tapo has restricted the setup.