Imou Life for Home Assistant (Marketplace integration)

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GitHub stars: 163
Connection: Uses the vendor's cloud
Upkeep: No update in 6 to 18 months
Version: 1.0.16, June 6, 2025
Category: Security and safety, Cameras
Kind: Marketplace integration
Brand: Imou
Needs: Needs the Marketplace (HACS on 2026.10 and older)
Domain: imou_life
Source: github.com/user2684/imou_life
Issues: Report an issue

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About

Imou Life is a custom integration for controlling Imou devices registered with the Imou Life app. It talks to the vendor's cloud API, using an app ID and app secret from an Imou developer account, and is configured through the UI. It adds binary sensors, buttons, cameras, selects, sensors, sirens and switches, so motion detection, the siren and other switches can be used from the frontend or in automations. It also covers image snapshots, video streaming, PTZ controls, push notifications and dormant devices. Options cover the polling interval, API timeout, callback URL, and waits before snapshots and after waking a dormant device. This is an unofficial integration, and development has stopped, so newer device models may not work fully.

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Supports

Uses the vendor's cloud Needs an internet connection and an account with the vendor.
From the Marketplace Installed through the Marketplace, formerly HACS.

Provides

Cameras
Switches
Sensors

Setting it up

Install it from the Marketplace and restart Home Assistant, then add it under Settings, Devices and services.

Add Device

Device ID
Rename as

Login

API Base URL
Imou App ID
Imou App Secret
Discover registered devices

Discovered Devices

Select the device to add:
Rename as

After setup

Polling interval (seconds)
API timeout (seconds)
Callback URL
Wait before downloading camera snapshot (seconds)
Wait after waking up dormant device (seconds)

Texts from the code of user2684/imou_life.

Troubleshooting

DiagnosticsDownloads a diagnostics file to attach to a bug report.

From the README

PLEASE NOTE this is an UNOFFICIAL integration, NOT supported or validated by Imou or linked in any way to Imou.
This integration is the result of the analysis of the public documentation released by Imou for its open platform and created before the vendor published its own official Home Assistant integration. Since this integration is based on information no more updated since 2021 it may not fully work with most recent devices and there is no way to support newer models since the documentation of the the APIs has not been made public by the vendor.
Configuration through the UI
Auto discover registered devices
Auto discover device capabilities and supported switches
Sensors, binary sensors, select, buttons to control key features of each device
Support for push notifications
Image snapshots, video streaming and PTZ controls
Support for dormant devices

From the README of user2684/imou_life, MIT License. Shortened.