Amcrest AD410 Integration w/ Alexa

Third party integrations
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Hello team,

I recently ordered an Amcrest AD410 doorbell and have it up and running in HA using the Amcrest integration manually configured in the configuration.yaml file per the docs (link). I can successfully stream video from the camera in the HA frontend as well as see the stream through Apple HomeKit. The camera is also exposed to the Alexa integration and I can see it listed in my Alexa devices. However, when I ask Alexa to show me the doorbell cam, it brings up a screen saying “Waiting for Home Assistant” then times out and doesn’t do anything. I’m running a Nabu Casa subscription so I dont think that it would be an HTTPS error or anything, plus all my other devices work using Alexa.

Anyone else encounter this issue or know of a solution? Let me know, thanks!

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Well, looks like I solved my own problem. I guess the Echo Shows (at least the ones I have, Echo Show 5 2019 and Echo Show 8 2021) don’t support 2K camera streams. When I change the HD resolution of the camera to 1080p, it works fine. If anyone has any experience otherwise, let me know.

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Its probably the codecs. You can use something like go2rtc to transcode it and send it off probably.