Connect IP Camera to HA thought itd be easy but issues

Configuration
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Hello All,
I am a new Home Assistant User. I have a few cameras around my house and I would love to set them up in HA and add some features to them once I get them streaming and working. I currently have them working with ISpy and I have the IP and RTSP stream. I am able to view them on VLC and ISpy.
These are boavision ip cameras I also contacted them thinking I may be using the wrong address for home assistant but I tried all that they gave me so maybe its my config. I’m not to sure…
When I view the stream on VLC the username/password box pops up and I have to enter it for the stream to start. I was thinking maybe that’s my issue that HA is not using my user/pass in the config. Well anyways…
My rtsp addresses I can use according to boa is:
rtsp://10.0.0.24:554/11 or rtsp://10.0.0.24:554/12
In VLC I got it working with:
rtsp://10.0.0.24:554/1/h264major

Here is my config in HA.
Ive tried authentication basic and digest.

stream:

camera:
  - platform: generic
    name: "Backyard"
    still_image_url: none #"http://username:[email protected]/tmpfs/auto.jpg"
    stream_source: "rtsp://10.0.0.24:554/1/h264major" #"rtsp://10.0.0.24:554/12"
    username: "username"
    password: "password"
    verify_ssl: false
    authentication: basic
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Does it say anything in the system log?

I ended up having to remove the authentication on my camera and use the ffmpeg integration rather than the generic camera one.

3

what kind of cameras do you have?
all the log says is cannot connect to IPADDRESS:Port cannot start stream.

It doesnt give me much more info…

4

Just cheap Chinese generic ones - don’t even have a brand name and the security on them is atrocious.

Sorry - not much help for your issue.

5

Tried with

stream_source: "rtsp://username:[email protected]:554/1/h264major"

Oh, you mentioned digest…

What about HA’s addon Motioneye??
Work very well for me :wink:

6

@zoogara I just got a stream working!
I changed generic to mjpeg and found a code sdk i used to see how it generated the url and I got it to stream. in the dashboard it updates every 10 seconds
I also tried to add 2 cams but only 1 is recognized.
do you know how to update cam on dashboard more frequently? also config for multiple cams here is what I have im gunna keep plating with it to get it.

camera:
  - platform: generic
    still_image_url: none
    stream_source: "stream"
    name: "testConfig"
    verify_ssl: false

camera:
    - platform: mjpeg
      name: "mjpegCam"
      mjpeg_url: "stream"
      verify_ssl: false
      still_image_url: "img"
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In your Lovelace.yaml (or in the config dialog if you used the GUI) there is a camera_view: option - your only two choices are “auto” (what you have now) or “live”.

So it’s only every 10 secs or real time as far as I can see.

There is a custom card:

Which is also available though HACS. That lets you set LOTS of options.

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And adding two camera should be just a matter of a different name. In this example two camera entities are created using just the one physical camera.

camera:
  - platform: ffmpeg
    name: "Shed Camera HiRes"
    input: rtsp://name:[email protected]:554/onvif1
  - platform: ffmpeg
    name: "Shed Camera LoRes"
    input: rtsp://name:[email protected]:554/onvif2

Post your full camera definition if you can’t get it to work.

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So i finally got my streams working on home assistant. What do you do for recording? I would like to record on motion. I’m thinking about trying to setup frigate so i can detect people and cars. but the recording part I am just looking into now. this is all I have for my yaml atm. (my previous post with names on each cam.)