I’ve been reading that the I “should” be able to cast/play a stream of my video doorbell camera (AmCrest AD410) to my Nvidia Shield (with chromecast). So I decided to try and call it through the services tab in Developer Tools using the following:
Just as a follow-up, I never was able to make this work but thanks to the timing of release 2022.3, the new play media feature solved this dilemma and streams the doorbell camera perfectly to my chromecast TV.
Well it’s simple if you have equipment. First you have to have tv preferably with chromecast integration built in. Than you have to find a way to prevent your tv from going into deep sleep. The rest is more or less easy. You can do automation ie. when someone rings a bell turn on tv and cast picture of happy puppy on the bell or you can cast on tv every time door bell detects movement.
I have a Nest doorbell and for some reason, it shows like an incompatible device when I try to use the play media action, but I’ve seen people in YouTube streaming it and I can also see it from HA
I don’t have experience with nest door bell. I have hikvision door bell connected with poe switch. How did you integrated nest door bell with home assistant? Does this integration support mqtt?
well if you can see video stream from your bell in home assistant, if it can detect motion and take pictures or clips you might do it. But you also must have tv suitable for it. I found that mi tv with build in chromecast integration works great. On the other hand my samsung tv is giving me a headache.
so then it is useless? I guess I’ll have to find a better camera that integrates better, but I’m surprised and afraid that I didn’t find anything online about issues or similar with HA
That is weird. I don’t know what the problem is, but if you can make it work go with poe intercom. I have hikvision, yeah it’s Chinese, but its working in ha without cloud.
Useless if you want live video.
You can get live video to play in a card you put on your dashboard and then cast the dashboard to a Chromecast. The video will be live but takes about 15 seconds to load.
I wanted to see live video if someone walked onto my porch or drove up the driveway. I wound up going a different direction with a spare PC hooked to my TV.
I have IP Camera viewer on that pc hooked up to the TV with 2 different HDMI ports. Basically using the TV as 2 monitors. I have each camera pulled up full time on each “monitor”. Home assistant switches to the relevant input when either someone walks up on the porch or a car pulls into the driveway.
Dont understand why we cant cast live video. Especially when you can cast live video if you cast a dashboard. Puzzling to me…