Anker eufy Home Security

After setup

• Detection hold (seconds)5–300 s, 10 by default. A detection sensor turns off this long after the detection's own time. A detection that arrives after its hold has run out still fires its event.
• Alarm safety-net timeout (minutes)1–60 min, 10 by default. A safety net for an alarm whose end the HomeBase never reports: the panel then leaves Triggered or Pending, shows the guard mode last reported and reads it again.
• Repair when a security mode holds detections backOn by default. A repair names the cameras whose Notification action is off in the armed security mode in force, so the station sends none of their detections. Off removes these repairs and raises none; the cameras, the modes and their notifications are unchanged, and each camera's Detections in current mode sensor still shows it.
• Event image
• Refresh event image keyframe1–5; 1 by default. Which keyframe of the HomeBase recording Refresh event image shows, unless Event image is Thumbnail only. A later keyframe can help when the first picture is dark or blurred, but the refresh takes longer and other cameras' images on the same HomeBase wait meanwhile. A recording with fewer keyframes uses its last one. The time between keyframes varies. Does not affect detection images, thumbnails or live captures, and never wakes the camera.
• Live snapshot for cameras without a detection imageOff by default. A camera with no detection image yet shows one live picture instead, at most every 5 minutes. Wakes a battery camera, which costs battery.
• Sessions per HomeBase
• Recording length (seconds)5–300 s, 30 by default. Length of a Record clip when the action names none. Wakes a battery camera for that long.
• Event history (days)0–365, 7 by default. Saves every image a camera or preset shows, named with date, time, camera and what it shows. Older days are deleted; 0 saves nothing. In Home Assistant Container, mount a host directory at /media to keep them across updates.
• Save event videosOff by default. Copies each recording a HomeBase makes from now on into the event history as an MP4, next to its image. Played from the HomeBase's storage, so no camera wakes. Needs Event history above 0 days; videos take far more space than images. Not for a camera without a HomeBase.
• eufy sign-in countryThe country your eufy app signs in with (shown on its sign-in screen). eufy lists a device only under the country it was set up or shared under. Empty means Home Assistant's country. A change asks eufy once for the devices, which can cost a sign-in.
• Check the eufy session every 6 hoursOn by default. A minute after start and every 6 hours, one device-list read with the saved session, never a sign-in. When another app or device has ended Home Assistant's session, the repair then shows within that time. Off: noticed at the next command that needs eufy or the next restart.
• Cloud push for detectionsOff by default. Needed for detections from a station that does not send them over the local network: a HomeBase 2, a camera without a HomeBase (such as the T8170 Battery SoloCam) or a model not yet checked; a repair names each one. A HomeBase 3 sends its cameras' detections locally, and one that arrives both ways fires once. Home Assistant listens for eufy's push messages like the phone app, which keeps working. The messages pass through eufy's and Google's servers and can arrive late or not at all.
• Extra eufy sign-in countriesEmpty by default. eufy lists a home shared with this account only to a sign-in with the country of the account that shared it. Add that country when it differs from the sign-in country. A change asks eufy once for the devices under every country.
• Look for devices under every sign-in country on each refreshOff by default. A sign-in country that listed no devices is not asked again. On: every device list asks each of them (Refresh device list, the session check, the hourly refresh for a camera without a HomeBase), so a device added later shows up; asking one whose session has run out signs in to it.