Amcrest Camera Setup Question

Third party integrations
1

Last night I successfully added one of my 4 Amcrest PTZ IP Cameras. When I tried to add the other 3 camerars I found I could not get any camera feeds. I used the following in my configuration.yaml

amcrest:
  - host: IP_ADDRESS_CAMERA_1
    username: YOUR_USERNAME
    password: YOUR_PASSWORD
    port: Camera_Port
    name: Camera_Name
 
 - host: IP_ADDRESS_CAMERA_2
    username: YOUR_USERNAME
    password: YOUR_PASSWORD
    port: Camera_Port
    name: Camera_Name

camera:
  - platform: amcrest

Is there something I did wrong? I can see the other cameras in the unused entities tab but they show no video. The 1st camera does however.

Thanks in advance

Richard

2

Are you using a DVR or a NVR? Or just individual cameras on your network ?

3

I have all 4 cameras connected to Blue Iris but I connected to them directly. Not sure if this makes a difference

4

Your spacing in the configuration looks off. I have a few amcrest cameras myself and they are all working fine. You can also remove the camera: lines as well as you only need to configure the amcrest part. Here is my working configuration for reference:

5

Thank you,

I got 2 cameras to work and I can view them in the unused entities, When I try to add 2 picture glance cards only the 1st camera shows even though I used the exact same text as the 1st camera but changing the info for the 2nd camera. Below is what I used

camera_image: camera.family_room_camera
entities:

  • camera.family_room_camera
    title: Family Room
    type: picture-glance

I can make 2 separate cards of the same camera and it works. One thing I noticed is that in the unused entity screen only the 1st camera (Family Room) has a thumbnail. The 2nd doesn’t but still displays video when you click on it

Any ideas?

6

Go to the States page (under Developer tools.) What does it show for the state of the camera entities? (In fact, it might be helpful to share the attributes for each camera as well.) What version of HA are you using?

7

Sorry I just saw your reply. I can look when I get home tonight

8

I was able to setup my two Amcrest cameras with the ‘ONVIF’ intergration in HA.

ONVIF Version: 16.12(V2.4.1.513183)