Camera Entities Don't Show

Configuration
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Hello

I’m hoping someone can help out as I’ve lost all of my working camera entities. Yesterday I could see all of the camera streams and I haven’t touched the “camera.yaml” file. For some reason none of my camera’s in that file show up as entities within HA. I’m running the latest 2022.04 and have restarted HA and rebooted the machine. The cameras are all Unifi branded and I’ve rebooted Unifi protect. Any ideas?

Thanks in advance for any help that can be provided.

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Just a thought but you may want to check the integrations as the “Generic” camera configuration has been moved to the UI in the latest release. Look for something like this in your integrations there may be some additional setup required…
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Hello
That seemed to work. I added the “Generic Camera” integration and it seemed that most of the cameras came back on line with about an 8 second lag. Not sure if the lag time can be improved? I have one camera that won’t show up as the entity is unavailable. Don’t know why. Do I still need the “camera.yaml” file? I’m not sure I fully appreciate why this integration was introduced when my cameras were working fine under the previous HA version.

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  • All part of the plan to move everything to the UI to make it easier for the average user to configure.

The logs indicate that once you confirm your camera is working you can remove the camera.yaml file.

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Okay. Thank you for the clarification and your help. Much appreciated.

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Documentation for UVC needs changing - still refers to integration in configuration.yaml