I’ve been building a Camera Gallery Card for Home Assistant and I’m looking for people who’d be willing to test it and give me honest feedback.
The main reason I started this project is simple: I felt like Home Assistant was missing a proper gallery browser for local camera recordings for my needs.
So I started creating my own version and is here to test!
At the moment it only supports local storage (for example files in /config/www), so no external or cloud-based media yet.
It’s working well in my own setup, but real-world testing always reveals things you don’t notice yourself.
If you’re a setup that stores recordings locally and exposes a fileList attribute, I’d really appreciate you trying it out. I’m mainly looking for feedback on usability, mobile behavior, performance, and feature ideas.
Been working on this for 2 weeks now and this is my first creation. Hope you like it!
Seems to work to select the different Frigate folders. But still working on a way (don’t know the best way yet) to add a filter for the different kind of thing you can track (person, dog, etc). What you reckon?
As for your question, well Frigate actually seems to put what the clip is in the file name itself (see below), maybe you could look at that… this would be the easy way without having to use the HA Frigate integrations API
Ok so its kind of working, on the one browser still damn cache issues…
I can’t get the clips or recording folders to show anything so I guess no videos supported.
Snapshots folder seems to work after a very long loading time… which is annoying but whats weird is when it does finally load it seems to show the same duplicate snapshot like 8-10 times, weird bug. Is there anyway to make sure it always shows the latest snapshot first and also no duplicates?
Another thing weird with snapshot folder it seems to randomly change itself like it’ll show snapshots from day but flip between a clip from day or night randomly.
Ok finally got updated and gonna test it out a bit, just a heads up the editor seems a bit broken now… I had to hard clear my cache to get it working Chrome so annoying sometimes…
Also just wondering is it possible to have multiple media sources? I added multiple favorites but seems thats only for the media source selector, still card is only the one media-soruce.
Nice! Would like more customization in the future too like maybe instead of a grid an option for scrollable list, nice for mobile but up to you of course.
