gf-l100-lightcontrol

I own a GF-L100 Floodlight Camera. This is sometimes also marketed as the Escam QF608.

In this thing's favor:

• It is cheap
• It has RTSP streams
• It is more-or-less ONVIF

Against:

• Controlling the floodlight is only possible through some proprietary app that doesn't integrate with Home Assistant

I had a fun time reverse-engineering the software on the camera and figured out that it controls the light by sending some weird ASCII-encoded hexadecimal numbers to a serial port. So, I wrote this; it emulates just enough of kankun-json that it can be used with Home Assistant's Kankun integration (I already had some Kankun plugs around).

Example

Add this to your Home Assistant configuration.yaml

switch:
  platform: kankun
  switches:
    floodlight_light:
      host: your.camera.host.or.ip
      port: 8090
      path: /light

    floodlight_motion:
      host: your.camera.host.or.ip
      port: 8090
      path: /motion