Area Card with multiple cameras

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Hi,

is it possible to assign a specific camera to an area card?
I have a hyperion ambilight and the screen shows up as a camera. However I have an actual camera also available in that area. However, the area card always picks the ambilight camera.
How can I force it to select the actual camera in thee room?

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Did you ever find the answer to this question?

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Unfortunately not, but I also removed cameras from the system as I did never really use them.

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I’m trying to figure out the same thing :sweat_smile:

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I have the same issue.

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Same situation for me, it would be nice to be able to select which camera is shown in the area card.

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+1.

I have 3 cameras in the backyard. The one that shows on the Area card is the camera viewing the service courtyard, pointing straight at my bins :person_shrugging:

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I have the Unifi G4 Pro doorbell which has two cameras on it. The secondary camera, the package camera, is the one home assistant has selected for the area card :man_facepalming:

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To work around this for now, I created a second area called “front door step” that I’m basically not using and updated the package camera entity to use that other area.

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Another workaround that worked for me was renaming the camera I didn’t want to be used.

From reading the source code, it seems the Area card uses whichever camera is returned in the first position, and it’s not sorted.

I got lucky renaming it to a name that alphabetically follows the one I wanted, but since it’s not sorted, I’m not sure if this will always work for others, but it’s woking fine for me.