Can not find camera

Installation Home Assistant OS
1

Hi,
I bought a camera from aliexpress, -found link on forum.

I am not able to connect it to my home assistant.
Can anybody help me.

This is my current configuration.
ffmpeg:

camera:

  • platform: ffmpeg
    name: House
    input: -rtsp_transport tcp -i rtsp://admin:[email protected]
    extra_arguments: -pred 1 -q:v 2

Thanks in advance,
Aage.

2

Hi, I would prefer two ways of doing that:

then, in both cases you use the ffmpeg component and camera as you previously said:


3

thanks, found the camera with iSpy as ffmpeg, and url: rtsp://admin:[email protected]:554/12

But still no luck with showing up in HA (hassio)…

4

did you check HA->Developer tools->Info for any logs?

5

No, there is nothing in log except asuswrt not running as expected (is scheduled to be fixed in 0.83)

6

WARNING (MainThread) [haffmpeg.core] FFmpeg isn’t running!

7

ffmpeg:

camera:

  • platform: ffmpeg
    name: House
    input: -rtsp_transport tcp -i rtsp://admin:[email protected]:554/12

Don’t know why, but now it works, after commenting out extra_arguments…

Thanks for helping with the program verifing the video-stream-url.

kr,
Aage

8

glad you found it, what I usually do to troubleshoot is the following:

  • check the stream that is correct and working by VLC, Media->Open Network Stream->URL (your camera stream ie rtsp://admin:[email protected]:554/12)

  • check the ffmpeg configuration

  • restart HA