Add generic camera to area card

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!

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

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

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

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

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

It will be in v2022.4

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fantastic, great work!

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.

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

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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. :confused:

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