Camera streaming to google home displays

Configuration
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Hello Everyone,

i’m trying to configure google home to display my IP camera stream.

Google assistant is configured as follow:

# Configure a default setup of Home Assistant (frontend, api, etc)
default_config:

#includes
group: !include groups.yaml
automation: !include automations.yaml
script: !include scripts.yaml
scene: !include scenes.yaml
## google assistant and google nest integrations
google_assistant: !include google_assistant.yaml
nest: !include nest.yaml
## LG TV integration
webostv: !include webostv.yaml

#enable new features
python_script:
wake_on_lan:
media_player:
notify:
ffmpeg:
stream:

#enable ssl
http:
  ssl_certificate: /ssl/fullchain.pem
  ssl_key: /ssl/privkey.pem

# Text to speech
tts:
  - platform: google_translate

#themes
frontend:
  themes: !include_dir_merge_named themes

my IP cameras are detected by Synology DSM integration, but for test i also added a generic RTSP camera with this config

#test camera
camera:
  - platform: generic
    name: test-camera
    still_image_url: http://192.168.0.4/snap.jpeg
    stream_source: rtsp://192.168.0.4:554/s0

everything inside Home Assistant itself works fine, i see still picture, i see video streaming and audio in the lovelance cards.

I’m using manual google assistant integration, and cameras are exposed. Google home detects my camera.

My problem is that if i try to ask google to show me the stream of the camera, all i get is this:

image
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all my cameras are Unifi and streaming coded in the datasheet is h.264. What am i missing?

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Anyone? Please…

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same problem here, did you figured this out?

4

I just do it with HA scripts.

Example: HA + Amcrest AD110 Front Door + Nabu Casa + Google Home

HA_Script_Kamera
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YAML

alias: Zeige Kamera Haustür
sequence:
  - service: camera.play_stream
    data:
      format: hls
      media_player: media_player.nest_hub_wohnzimmer
    target:
      device_id:
        - 81f96411aea2523423432f4c102305b51a0
mode: single

Google Home
Automations → New → Trigger (If I say: Show Camera Front Door)
Action → Set smart home device → Ambiente Option add to → HA Script

If it wants to stop streaming I use another script (Stoppe Media Player) with Google Home
YAML

alias: Stoppe Media Player
sequence:
  - service: media_player.turn_off
    data: {}
    target:
      entity_id:
        - media_player.nest_hub_kuche
        - media_player.nest_hub_wohnzimmer
mode: single

Some of my HA Scripts for Streaming
HA_Scripts

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@jim_os I’m currently seeing about 20s delay on this camera feed when viewing on Google displays after streaming from HA. I am using an IP camera streaming H.264 into HA as a Generic Camera and then picking that up in the script for streaming.

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Oh, this is a pretty old post from me, :slightly_smiling_face: and a lot has changed with my cameras in the last two years. I currently use four Dahua cameras and an Imou DB61i video doorbell. All cameras are integrated into HA via the HA Onvif integration with H.264. The rest - HA Script + Nabu Casa + Google Home - are still the same.

From the moment I enter the voice command on a Nest Hub until the camera’s live stream appears, it only takes about 3-5 seconds. I use Substream 1 of my Dahua cameras with the following settings.

Dahua_Substream
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Unfortunately, I can’t tell you why this delay is happening to you.

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