Custom component - REST API camera

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Hi all
just published a custom component to display images served via a REST API as a camera. Use case is displaying camera feed from one home-assistance instance on another. Saves setting up www folder and should be useful with other REST API image services.
Any feedback let me know.
Cheers

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whats the difference with the generic camera?
which also would be an option to use between 2 hass instances. with 2 lines of configuration.

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You have to use a template in the config of the generic camera?

I only briefly looked at the generic, mostly wrote this as an exercise before attempting something else

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in the generic cam you just give an url :wink:
but you created a generic cam yourself so excercise succeeded :wink:

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Interesting, appeared to require the path to a file. Will try later. If there are API’s that can’t be accessed via generic then perhaps this component would have a use.
Cheers

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@ReneTode good catch, all that’s required to configure the generic camera is the following
Cheers

camera:
  - platform: generic
    still_image_url: http://192.168.0.28:8123/api/camera_proxy/camera.last_captured_motion
    name: bird-cam
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you have won in experience :wink:

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