Blurred camera image

Configuration
1

Not sure if this is a configuration issue, but my camera snapshot both in Chrome browser on MAC and the IOS companion app (see below) are blurred; not all the time every time, but frequent enough to be bothersome.

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configuartion.yaml:

- platform: onvif
    host: 192.168.1.11
    port: 80
    username: !secret camera_user
    password: !secret camera_pw
    name: Voor

and in lovelace:

aspect_ratio: 50%
entity: camera.voor
type: picture-entity

No camera related errors in the logs…

Any help is appreciated.

2

Is the camera a reolink by any chance?

I had this issue with a reolink-520, although I’m capturing my camera feeds with zoneminder and then taking them into home assistant from there.
I solved the issue by taking the rtmp feed through ffmpeg instead which for me was;
rtmp://192.168.0.200/bcs/channel0_main.bcs?channel=0&stream=0&user=xxxxx&password=xxxxxx

Although I’m not sure about configuration straight into HA as I’m pretty new to that.

cheers,
Jon

3

Camera is a Dahua PTZ camera. Both platforms ONVIF and FFMPEG show exactly the same blurring…

Same camera in MotionEye is cristal clear…

4

Try switching to using the RTSP stream instead of going over port 80, so switch the platform to generic and then enter the “stream_source:” as the rtsp stream, I can’t say exactly what the source would be without knowing your camera but the dahua wiki has this example;

rtsp://admin:[email protected]:554/cam/realmonitor?channel=1&subtype=1

Bit more info here: https://dahuawiki.com/Remote_Access/RTSP_via_VLC

and here;