Add generic camera to area card

ivanaudero · January 10, 2022, 3:32pm

Good evening everyone,
I am integrating some basic ip cameras, and everything worked very well. In my home I have 5 areas, and I would like to assign to the area card the preview of the camera, but I encountered the “entity has not a unique id” problem, so the camera is not recognized. Is there a way to achieve that?

Thank you!

tom_l · January 10, 2022, 3:51pm

No, generic cameras can not yet be assigned to an area.

ivanaudero · January 10, 2022, 4:27pm

Thank you very much! Same with Android IP Webcam, I suppose?

tom_l · January 10, 2022, 4:29pm

Yes. It is still configured using yaml and does not support a unique id so can not be added to an area.

ivanaudero · January 10, 2022, 4:33pm

Ok, thank you very much for your help! Hope they will be available in the future

newbee112 · April 1, 2022, 11:14am

any news on this? should be easy fix to add unique_id: to generic camera…

tom_l · April 1, 2022, 12:03pm

It will be in v2022.4

newbee112 · April 4, 2022, 6:46am

fantastic, great work!

Lensters · April 7, 2022, 10:46am

I’m running 2022.4.0 and it isn’t there yet. Is there a new ETA? Is there anyway to add a unique_id to an generic camera or android_ip_webcam in configuration.yaml? If there is, I haven’t been able to figure it out yet and could use an example.

tom_l · April 7, 2022, 10:50am

Generic cameras can now be added via the UI and assigned an area.

Lensters · April 7, 2022, 12:11pm

I can assign it an area, but I can’t get it to show on an area card. I guess my problem is figuring out area cards.