Hikvision in Home Assistant
hikvision
part of Home Assistant since 0.35
Hikvision is an official Home Assistant integration for Binary sensor, Camera and Event. Talks to the device on your own network and is told about every change straight away.
Facts about this integration
- Compatible with Home Assistant
- yes, official integration
- Connection
- Local, push – Talks to the device on your own network and is told about every change straight away.
- Setup
- in the user interface
- Kind
- Single device
- Installations
- 4,238 (0.6 % of the installations that share statistics)
- Categories
- Binary sensor, Camera, Event
- Provides
- Binary sensor, Camera, Event
- Maintained by
- @mezz64, @ptarjan
- Python packages
pyHik==0.4.8
Setup
- In Home Assistant open Settings → Devices & services.
- Click "Add integration" and search for Hikvision.
- Follow the dialog – it asks for everything the integration needs.
The link goes through my.home-assistant.io and opens the setup dialog in your own instance – no address of ours is involved.
Known issues and fixes
4 open issues and 14 bug fixes in the last twelve months are recorded for Hikvision in the Home Assistant issue tracker. If something does not work, update first: the most recent fix shipped with Home Assistant 2026.9.0.
Open
- open Reported problem #183076
- open Reported problem #188875
- open Reported problem #180611
- open Reported problem #179373
Fixed
- fixed in 2026.9.0 Bug fix #180873
- fixed in 2026.9.0 Bug fix #180885
- fixed in 2026.7.3 Bug fix #176345
- fixed in 2026.3.3 Bug fix #165009
- fixed in 2026.1.1 Bug fix #160254
- fixed in 2026.1.0 Bug fix #160027
Source: the issue tracker of Home Assistant, as of October 28, 2026. The sentences are written by a language model from the titles of the issues; the reports themselves are on GitHub.
Check a specific device for known problems in the product check →
Source of this entry: the official documentation of the integration