Meari smart home integration, free and open source
Meari cameras & doorbells: ieGeek Cam, CloudEdge, CloudPlus, ANRAN, Arenti, BoifunCam apps.
Published by vincentBesseau
- Devices
- Version 1.0.0
- Requires Gladys >=5.1.0
- ★ 0
Meari is the cloud platform behind many brands of Wi-Fi cameras and doorbells, often battery powered. If your camera is controlled with one of these apps, this integration is for you:
| App | Common brands |
|---|---|
| ieGeek Cam | ieGeek |
| CloudEdge | cameras sold under many brands |
| CloudPlus / CloudHome | same |
| ANRAN | ANRAN |
| Arenti | Arenti |
| BoifunCam | Boifun |
These cameras expose neither RTSP nor ONVIF: the integration goes through the Meari cloud, like the app does.
What you get
For each camera:
- Motion: on for the chosen duration after the last alert (motion, PIR or person).
- Doorbell (doorbells only): goes to 1 for a few seconds on every press.
- Battery and charging, read from the cloud without waking the camera up.
- Image: the picture of the last alert, shown in the camera widget.
- Settings when the camera exposes them: motion detection, person detection, PIR sensor, status LED.
Two scene triggers: Doorbell pressed and Motion detected (filterable by person or other motion).
Dashboard widgets
- Meari camera: the last picture, the battery and the motion. A battery doorbell sleeps between events, so the picture is updated at every alert or press (the widget refreshes at once), without ever waking the camera. The "Check for a new picture" button looks in the cloud for a newer one.
- Doorbell presses: the last 5 presses, with the day and time, and the picture taken at the press when the cloud provides one. The history is kept by the integration and rebuilt from the cloud (last 7 days) at startup.
In the Meari camera widget, pick a camera — doorbells are excluded, they have their own widget. In Doorbell presses, pick a doorbell (default: all); tap a press to open its picture enlarged.
Setup
- Create a second account in your app (ieGeek Cam, CloudEdge…) and share your cameras with it. The cloud allows a single live session per account: with the phone's account, alerts still arrive, but by polling (within 15 seconds) instead of instantly.
- In Gladys, open the integration and fill in the e-mail, the password, the app used (the one the account was created with), the country code and the dial code.
- Click Test the connection: your cameras are listed.
- Discovery tab: add your cameras.
Known limits
- No live video: the image is the one of the last alert.
- The delay between a press and the scene depends on the cloud (usually one to a few seconds with push).
- If your doorbell is not recognized as one, enable "Add a doorbell feature to every camera".
Unofficial integration, not affiliated with Meari or the app vendors.
Configuration settings
These are the settings Meari asks for in its configuration screen in Gladys.
| Setting | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Your camera app account | section | No | Meari is the cloud behind ieGeek Cam, CloudEdge, CloudPlus/CloudHome, ANRAN, Arenti and BoifunCam. Use a SECOND account of your app, with your cameras shared to it: the cloud allows one live session per account, so the phone's account delays alerts (15 s instead of instant). |
string | Yes | ||
| Password | secret | Yes | |
| Your camera app | select | Yes | |
| Country code | string | No | Two letters, as chosen in the app (FR, BE, CH...). |
| Phone dial code | string | No | Without the +, e.g. 33 for France. |
| Instant alerts (push) | boolean | No | Listen to the cloud push channel. Off: alerts arrive by polling, within 15 s. |
| Motion duration (s) | number | No | How long the motion sensor stays on after the last alert. |
| Battery refresh (s) | number | No | Battery and settings are read from the cloud, the camera is never woken up. |
| Add a doorbell feature to every camera | boolean | No | Only if your doorbell is not detected as one. |
| Language of device names | select | No | Language of the created feature names (Motion, Battery, Status LED...). Applied when a camera is added; rename a feature anytime in Gladys. |
How to install Meari in Gladys
- In Gladys, open Integrations: Meari appears in the catalog, next to the native integrations, with a community badge.
- Click Install. Gladys pulls the Docker image (
ghcr.io/vincentbesseau/gladys-integration-meari:1.0.0), starts it in a sandbox isolated from the core, and generates the integration's interface (devices, discovery and configuration). - Open the Configuration screen of the integration, fill in the settings, and save.
- You can also install it directly from its repository URL: https://github.com/vincentBesseau/gladys-integration-meari.
Meari requires Gladys >=5.1.0. The catalog inside Gladys refreshes every hour, so a new version becomes available at most one hour after its release.
Not running Gladys yet? It is free and open source: follow the installation guide to get started.
About external integrations
Meari is an external integration: a community integration packaged as a Docker container and published on GitHub, that Gladys installs in one click and runs in a sandbox isolated from its core. It is published and maintained by vincentBesseau, not by the Gladys core team.
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- Source code on GitHub — source of this documentation