Amcrest IP Camera Component Enhancements - PTZ control and audio streaming

Third party integrations
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any possibility to add events related to doorbells (button pressed) in this library?
In the end it seems that the amcrest and dahua doorbells have the same firmware as the cameras with just the addition of a button

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Sorry to necromance this thread, but one of the features I’m curious about was the ability to stream audio to the camera speakers. The OP mentions it, and the original custom scripts seem to have attempted to add support.

I quickly tried to dig through the github history to see if it was ever added/removed, but it looks like it simply never made it.

Is this something you’re still working on @pnbruckner, or was it added via another generic integration, or is it simply back-burnered for now.

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I wrote some code and got it working half the time but there was a defect that caused the camera to freeze.

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Feature Request:

I am interested in enabling/disabling Autotracking from services, setting PTZ presets, and configuring Tours within homeassistant.

I found that enabling the tap-action to more-info for an Amcrest camera does not work. Using that flow, I intended to make the audio and full-screen controls available to the Android application, but homeassistant could not find the entity. For example, given my card configuration:

type: picture-elements
entity: camera.bedroom
camera_image: camera.bedroom
camera_view: live
elements:
  - type: icon
    icon: mdi:numeric-1
    title: Set location to 1
    style:
      background: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.25)
      top: 15px
      left: 15px
    tap_action:
      action: call-service
      service: amcrest.goto_preset
      service_data:
        entity_id: camera.bedroom
        preset: 1
  - type: icon
    icon: mdi:numeric-2
    title: Set location to 2
    style:
      background: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.25)
      top: 15px
      left: 45px
    tap_action:
      action: call-service
      service: amcrest.goto_preset
      service_data:
        entity_id: camera.bedroom
        preset: 2
  - type: icon
    icon: mdi:information
    title: Open Entity
    style:
      bottom: 50px
      left: 25px
    tap_action:
      action: more-info
      entity: camera.bedroom
  - type: icon
    icon: mdi:arrow-up
    style:
      background: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.25)
      right: 25px
      top: 50px
    tap_action:
      action: call-service
      service: amcrest.ptz_control
      service_data:
        entity_id: camera.bedroom
        movement: up
  - type: icon
    icon: mdi:arrow-down
    style:
      background: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.25)
      right: 25px
      top: 100px
    tap_action:
      action: call-service
      service: amcrest.ptz_control
      service_data:
        entity_id: camera.bedroom
        movement: down
  - type: icon
    icon: mdi:arrow-left
    style:
      background: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.25)
      right: 50px
      top: 75px
    tap_action:
      action: call-service
      service: amcrest.ptz_control
      service_data:
        entity_id: camera.bedroom
        movement: left
  - type: icon
    icon: mdi:arrow-right
    style:
      background: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.25)
      right: 0px
      top: 75px
    tap_action:
      action: call-service
      service: amcrest.ptz_control
      service_data:
        entity_id: camera.bedroom
        movement: right

When clicking on the info icon on the bottom left, the UI returns the following toast:

No entity provided for more info dialog

The specific section:

  - type: icon
    icon: mdi:information
    title: Open Entity
    style:
      bottom: 50px
      left: 25px
    tap_action:
      action: more-info
      entity: camera.bedroom