2024.11: Slick dashboards and speedy cameras

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After the update, I no longer saw any histories for entities. the corresponding section loaded endlessly. After the return to 10.4 they are there again. You should simply never update to x.0 :wink:

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Speedy cameras - huge improvement there, awesome work.

LG ThinQ integration - no luck at all, trying to get a Personal Access Token (which is required to add the integration) is not successful, just repeatedly logs me out from the LG PAT site. Promising, but disappointing.
EDIT: LG thinq integration setup progress cannot be completed Ā· Issue #129977 Ā· home-assistant/core Ā· GitHub

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@Swallowtail try the PAT site nowā€¦ it just started working. Itā€™s a ā€¦ somewhat questionable site (youā€™ll see what I mean if it loads for you).

I was also a bit disappointed in the entities it created, but just sifting through all of it now. The HACS integration has more detail, I think. But need more time to compare them.

Matt

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Previously, Litter-Robot could have an off state. This has now changed to docked , as off isnā€™t a valid state for vacuum entities.

Why is a litter box setup as a vacuum?

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13 posts were split to a new topic: Rolling back to a previous version after 2024.11 update

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It seems the Frigate-hass-card does not support the WebRTC changes. The live stream is just a static image now and the only error message is in the JS console.

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Yes, thanks - itā€™s working now.

As you note, the entities are a little under-whelming.

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Has anyone had luck with Unifi Protect and the new WebRTC stuff? I enabled a medium RTSP in Protect, reloaded the integration, I see the entity it created (camera.playroom_medium). I put a picture glance card on my dashboard but Iā€™m only getting an update about every 10 seconds.

Iā€™ve tried it with and without the new enhanced encoding or whatever itā€™s called (h.265).

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I already had a page with all of my Protect cameras loaded using:

            type: picture-entity
            entity: camera.front_g4p_camera_low

With 2024.11.0 that page now loads the previews much faster. The static images refresh every 10 seconds. Clicking on the picture loads the video feed, but that still takes about 8 to 10 seconds to load and play. It is better now in terms of continuity of playback. Note I am running through cloudflared.

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Could someone please clarify what the recommended setup is now for WebRTC?

I set up WebRTC ages ago to work with my UniFi Camera feeds and canā€™t quite recall the rationale for all of it. Before this update, I had the following:

  • an rtsp_to_webrtc INTEGRATION
  • an rtsp_to_webrtc ADD-ON
  • an rtsp_to_web ADD-ON
  • each camera entity setup as a ā€œWebRTCā€ version via individual RTSP feeds from UniFi via the Generic Camera INTEGRATION
  • recently, I added the custom:frigate-card to view them

Does this WebRTC update mean I can remove the rtsp_webrtc INTEGRATION and both ADD-ONs, and get WebRTC natively from HA?

Do I still need separate Generic Cameras configured from the RTSP feed from UniFi or should the native UniFi Protect cameras work with WebRTC now?

Also, does the Frigate-Card really matter or should the standard Picture Entity Card in Live view work just as well as the Frigate Card?

Appreciate guidance and info here, as I havenā€™t yet upgraded and Iā€™m trying to gauge how much time I need to carve out for the update. Thanks.

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You donā€™t need anything custom anymore. Just configure the Unifi Protect integration and it will automatically work via WebRTC.

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I guess thereā€™s no update to the Tuya integration issue/problems?

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I think I need time to write a post about whether you still need the custom WebRTC component or the go2rtc addon. In short - there are cases where you need them. There are cases when you donā€™t need them anymore. It all depends on your goals.

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Thatā€™s great, thanks for the prompt response!

Does this mean this section about the delay in video feed of the UniFi documentation is no longer accurate, correct?

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Does the wake word need to be Nabu?

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Yup, same here (HA in Docker):

Something about recorder taking > 10s to set upā€¦ while i was booting my offline backup server, it eventually seems to have finished starting, even though it didnā€™t look like it would.

Guess iā€™ll call the restore test off for now :smiley:

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Anyone tried the new webrtc , When watching cameras on a Google hub, using the GA integration, is that now also faster and more stable?

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You can also cut or copy paste cards using the 3 dots :slightly_smiling_face:
We have some technical limitations from auto scroll but I will take a look if we can improve that.

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That would be hugely appreciated.

I was going to post that I use the custom WebRTC, go2rtc and LG ThinQ components all of which seem to have moved to Core with this release. Itā€™s great to see them included in core but instructions on what people who have been using custom components for months/years without any issues need to do would be much appreciated, ideally documented in the release notes.

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Hmā€¦ maybe iā€™m doing something wrong, but in my case these two cards are still appr. 5 seconds apart - web-rtc camera card is still way faster in live picture:

#fast one:
type: custom:webrtc-camera
streams:
  - entity: camera.prusa_mainstream
    mode: webrtc
    media: video

#and slower one: 
type: picture-entity
entity: camera.prusa_mainstream
camera_view: live