SwitchBot
SwitchBot Video Doorbell
- Wi-Fi
- Bluetooth
Verified September 2026
Handle with care: unlike SwitchBot's locks and sensors, this doorbell isn't on the Works with Home Assistant certified list, and the official switchbot_cloud integration has no camera platform at all. A community HACS component gives a local WebRTC stream, but with no audio and — critically — no motion or doorbell-press event entities, so you can't automate on someone ringing it. Night vision is colour rather than grainy IR, and the housing is IP65-rated for UK weather. It won't trigger an existing wired chime — it ships with its own indoor LCD display/chime unit, so no rewiring, but no reusing your current bell either. Buy it for local video-on-demand, not doorbell-press automation.
In Home Assistant
| Control | Type | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| Camera | Camera | Live view negotiated over WebRTC against an AWS Kinesis signalling channel; video only, no audio. |
| Camera resolution | Config | Set once during integration setup; higher resolution increases bandwidth through the cloud relay and can worsen stream-start failures on weaker connections. |
| Snapshot | Config | Generates dashboard-card thumbnails, but each snapshot opens its own short-lived cloud session — frequent polling can destabilise an active live view. |
| Snapshot cache | Config | Caches the last snapshot response for a set number of seconds so repeated card refreshes don't each trigger a new cloud connection. |
Worth correcting a common assumption: despite the WebRTC framing, the HACS component's own manifest declares cloud-polling, and every viewing session authenticates against Amazon Kinesis Video Streams credentials pulled from SwitchBot's account API — so the stream depends on AWS/SwitchBot cloud reachability, not a pure LAN handshake, even though the video itself plays back locally in HA once negotiated. For this specific device the integration registers only a camera entity — its number, select, and other config platforms are gated to SwitchBot's Pan/Tilt Cam Plus line and never load here. There's no binary sensor or event platform anywhere in the codebase, so the only practical ways to react to a ring today are pairing a separate physical chime/button as a trigger proxy, or piping the exposed stream into an external frame-analysis add-on for synthetic motion detection.
Specs
- chime
- Ships with its own indoor colour LCD display/chime unit — does not wire into or trigger an existing mechanical or wired chime
- power
- battery (5000mAh, 6-19 months) or wired 5V/2A; optional solar panel
- storage
- local microSD up to 512GB + 4GB built-in
- ip rating
- IP65
- streaming
- local WebRTC video via HACS component or ONVIF/RTSP; no motion/ring events exposed to HA by any current method
- resolution
- 2K (2304x1296), 165° FOV
- night vision
- Colour night vision (no IR range published by SwitchBot)
- subscription
- none required for local video/storage