Yi Home Cameras
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The Yi Home Cameras integration allows you to use Yi Home Cameras within Home Assistant. Specifically, this platform supports the line of Yi Home Cameras that are based on the Hi3518e Chipset. This includes:
In Apple Home through HomeKit Bridge
What HomeKit Bridge makes of each kind of entity this integration creates, read from its source code. A device only gets the ones that apply to it.
| Entity | Shows up as | Note |
|---|---|---|
camera | Camera | Needs its own HomeKit Bridge in accessory mode |
What people report
Yi Home cameras are supported only with the alternative Hi3518e firmware.
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| Device | In Home Assistant | In Apple Home | What they said | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yi Home Camera (alternative firmware) | Works | Needs the alternative firmware based on Hi3518e chipsetSaved copyDescription: _(redo of borked pull request #9743)_ Adds support for YI Home Cameras running the alternative firmware for Xiaomi Cameras based on Hi3518e Chipset. Related issue (if applicable): N/A Pull request in home-assistant.github.io with documentation (if applicable): https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant.github.io/pull/3580 ## Example entry for `configuration.yaml` (if applicable): ```yaml camera: - platform: yi name: Kitchen Camera host: '192.168.1.100' username: root password: my_password_123 ffmpeg_arguments: '-vf sc Excerpt saved from GitHub on 2026-10-23. | PR #9787 · 2017-10 |
Gathered from GitHub issues, pull requests, discussions and docs, and from r/homeassistant. These are individual reports, so check the linked thread and the date before you buy.
How it connects
Local polling
Talks to the device on your network, asking it for updates every so often.
Details
| Installs (analytics) | 104 (0.01%) |
|---|---|
| Quality scale | Legacy |
| Added in | Home Assistant 0.56 |
| Set up in the UI | No, YAML |
| Maintainers | @bachya |
In ReReHome
Whatever HomeKit Bridge shares reaches Apple Home as normal HomeKit accessories behind your Home Assistant bridge, so ReReHome shows and controls them like any other.
Bridges get their own settings page listing the accessories behind them.
