Doorbell
When someone rings, the display wakes, rings and shows live video with the doorbell’s sound and a microphone button for two-way audio. It supports up to four doorbells. Person, package, vehicle and animal detections show as notifications.
Add a doorbell
Section titled “Add a doorbell”Open Settings → Home control → Doorbell → Add doorbell, or the gear on the Doorbell app. Choose one of three setup methods:
| Home Assistant (Reolink integration) | Doorbells and cameras from Home Assistant’s Reolink integration. Tap Auto setup on one; its camera and its ring, person, package, vehicle and animal sensors are filled in |
| Reolink NVR | Enter the NVR’s address, user and password and tap Connect, then tap a channel |
| Manual | Enter the doorbell’s name, UID or IP address, user and password |
A doorbell added with Auto setup has no password, so it uses Home Assistant for its video and its rings, without talkback. Tap it on the Doorbell page and enter its password to connect to it directly, with talkback.
Tap Save to check the login and save the doorbell. Not saved reports a wrong password, a different doorbell at that address, or a doorbell it can’t reach.
Tap a doorbell on the Doorbell page to change it, see whether its events and video are working, or Remove it.
When someone rings
Section titled “When someone rings”| Setting | Entity | What it does | Choices | Default |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ring style | select.<device>_camera_doorbell_ring_style |
What a ring does | Auto answer, Same as screen, None, Banner, Card, Full screen, Toast | Auto answer |
| Ring sound | select.<device>_camera_doorbell_ring_sound |
Chimes, Ring and custom tones | Ring | |
| Ring for | select.<device>_camera_doorbell_ring_for |
How long the ring sound repeats | Never, 5 s to 5 min | 30 s |
| Notification style | select.<device>_camera_doorbell_notification_style |
How detections appear | Same as screen, None, Banner, Card, Full screen, Toast | Same as screen |
| Notification sound | select.<device>_camera_doorbell_notification_sound |
Chimes and custom tones | Ding | |
| Dashboard tab | switch.<device>_camera_doorbell_dashboard_tab |
A Doorbell tab on the native dashboard | Off |
- Auto answer rings once and opens the live view with the doorbell’s sound on.
- Same as screen uses the Alert style from Alerts & Alarms.
- Banner, Card, Full screen and Toast show “Someone’s at the …” with a picture and a Watch button, while the ring sound repeats for Ring for.
- None shows nothing and plays nothing, but the screen still wakes.
Detections show as “Person at the …”, “Package at the …”, “Vehicle by the …” or “Animal at the …”, in the notification style, for 20 seconds.
Watching and talking
Section titled “Watching and talking”The live view has a speaker button for the doorbell’s sound and a microphone button: tap it to talk, tap again to stop. The doorbell’s sound is muted while you talk. An auto-answered view closes after 2 minutes.
If the screen can’t play the doorbell’s main stream, it uses the sub stream.
The Doorbell app shows a picture of each doorbell and the recent events; tap one to watch. Recent events are kept until LANovo restarts.
Sources
Section titled “Sources”Set the video, event and talkback sources separately on each doorbell’s settings page or in Home Assistant. Each source defaults to Automatic.
| Setting | Entity | Choices |
|---|---|---|
| Video | select.<device>_camera_doorbell_1_video_source |
Automatic, Reolink, RTSP, Home Assistant |
| Events | select.<device>_camera_doorbell_1_event_source |
Automatic, ONVIF, Reolink, Home Assistant |
| Talkback | select.<device>_camera_doorbell_1_talkback_source |
Automatic, Reolink, ONVIF |
| Name | text.<device>_camera_doorbell_1_name |
The same four entities exist for doorbells 2 to 4.
- Automatic, with a password, connects to a Reolink doorbell directly. If that fails, video tries RTSP and then Home Assistant, events use Home Assistant’s sensors, and talkback tries ONVIF. Without a password it uses Home Assistant.
- Home Assistant video opens the doorbell’s Home Assistant camera, with no talkback.
- ONVIF talkback works with doorbells that take G.711 audio.
Doorbell status (doorbell_status) in Home Assistant says how many doorbells are connected, or
what’s wrong.
Settings → Home control shows the Doorbell page only when home control is on and Allow the device to perform Home Assistant actions is turned on for the display in the ESPHome integration. Without that, open the doorbell settings from the gear on the Doorbell app.