Can you get a live rtsp stream?

Configuration
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I hope this helps someone: I found out that the URLs generated by https://www.ispyconnect.com/man.aspx?n=dahua for my Dahua IPC-HDW5231R-ZE weren’t fully valid. However, I was able to generate a valid ?authbasic= via the script on the page. The valid URLs should be:

Mainstream

ffmpeg:
camera:
- platform: ffmpeg
  name: Camera
  input: -rtsp_transport tcp -i rtsp://USER:PASS@IPADDRESS/cam/realmonitor?channel=1&subtype=0&authbasic=GENERATEDCODE

Substream #2

ffmpeg:
camera:
- platform: ffmpeg
  name: Camera
  input: -rtsp_transport tcp -i rtsp://USER:PASS@IPADDRESS/cam/realmonitor?channel=1&subtype=2&authbasic=GENERATEDCODE

The authbasic can be generated with the following Javascript code:
var auth = btoa(cfg.username + ":" + cfg.password);

The above works like a charme without credentials modal in both VLC and Hassio.

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Any chance you could provide more details on your approach? Is it applicable more generally i.e. on other than Dahua cameras? For a noob where does the script reside?

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Other brands are probably possible too, for example, there also seems to be a page for hikvision cameras: https://www.ispyconnect.com/man.aspx?n=hikvision

I have mentioned the part of the script in my post, you can try it by using the following script as jsfiddle (and press run):

var auth = btoa("username_here" + ":" + "password_here");
document.write(auth);

Hope this helps!

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