• Introduction
• Installation
• Configuration
• Further Documentation
• How it looks

Lovelace card designed specifically for the AArlo Integration.

It provides:

• Motion and sound notifications.
• Access to the camera library recordings.
• Live streaming.
• Support for doorbell and door opening notifications.
• Support for toggling lights during streaming.

This document assumes you are familiar with Home Assistant setup and configuration.

Many thanks to:

• Button Card for a working lovelace card I could understand

• JetBrains for the excellent PyCharm IDE and providing me with an open source license to speed up the project development.

  

Aarlo is part of the default HACS store. If you're not interested in development branches this is the easiest way to install. HACS will tell you what to add to your UI configuration.

The card type is aarlo-glance.js.

install /config
# check output looks good
install go /config

Add the following to the top of your UI configuration file.

resources:
  - type: module
    url: /local/aarlo-glance.js

The card type is aarlo-glance.js.

The card supports the following configuration items:

To get the show items (except snapshot, which needs nothing) to work correctly you need to enable the corresponding binary_sensor or sensor. For example, to get motion notifications working you need the following binary sensor enabled:

binary_sensor:
  - platform: aarlo
    monitored_conditions:
    - motion

If you rename any of the aarlo devices you will need to provide the full device name to get motion, sound, battery, signal, capture or last capture notifications to work. See the corresponding *_id configuration item.

The following is my front door camera configuration.

type: 'custom:aarlo-glance'
entity: camera.aarlo_front_door_camera
name: Front Door
show:
  - motion
  - sound
  - snapshot
  - battery_level
  - signal_strength
  - captured_today
  - image_date
top_title: false
top_status: false
top_date: false
image_click: play
door: binary_switch.front_door
door_lock: lock.front_door_lock
door_bell: binary_switch.aarlo_ding_front_door_bell
door2: binary_switch.front_door
door2_lock: lock.front_door_lock
door2_bell: binary_switch.aarlo_ding_front_door_bell
light: light.aarlo_front_light

You don't need to reboot to see the GUI changes, a reload is sufficient. And if all goes will see a card that looks like this:

Reading from left to right you have the camera name, motion detection indicator, captured clip indicator, battery levels, signal level and current state. If you click the image the last captured clip will play, if you click the last captured icon you will be show the video library thumbnails - see below. Clicking the camera icon (not shown) will take a snapshot and replace the current thumbnail. (See supported features for list of camera statuses)

Clicking on the last captured clip will display thumbnail mode. Clicking on a thumbnail starts the appropiate video. You can currently only see the last 99 videos. If you move your mouse over a thumbnail it will show you time of capture and, if you have a Smart subscription, a reason for the capture. > takes you to the next page, < to the previous and X closes the window.

See hass-aarlo for general Aarlo documentation.