It shows up as always Inactive, since it has no motion detection.
But what if I have a way to see if there are motion (like motioneye) that I can use to set a secondary sensor (maybe via MQTT) to active or inactive.
Can I somehow configure a hybrid camera that takes the image from still_image_url and mjpeg_url but the active/inactive from another sensor (or even just directly from an MQTT topic)?
I guess I don’t need it to be combined into one, I just think it would make sense since the active/inactive status is also shown in the card in Lovelace.
But I agree that in regards to automation and stuff, it would not matter if it was just a separate sensor.
Yeah, just use a picture glance with a camera entity, then in the entities list, use the binary_sensor. It will show up as a little guy that turns on with movement and off with no movement.