Hey, read FAQ in readme.
@JurajNyiri can I take snapshot with your plugin? I need to send images to Telegram triggered by motion sensor, the automation is like this:
alias: Motion trigger
description: ''
trigger:
- platform: state
entity_id: binary_sensor.camera_motion
from: 'off'
to: 'on'
condition: []
action:
- service: notify.telegram
data:
message: Rilevato movimento!
- service: notify.telegram
data:
camera_image: camera.videocamera_hd
mode: single
Camera has service camera.snapshot to do a snapshot. So you have to add something like this to your âactionâ:
- service: camera.snapshot
data:
filename: /media/snapshot/camera.jpg
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Does it just not work or stop working after a while?
I use the official onvif integration and I am also seeing this, the motion detector stops updating and usually restarting either the camera or home assistant. It will then work for a few days.
Wondering if this tapo integration is more reliable or is it using the onvif integration with extra API features for tapo cameras?
It is using the same onvif standard as the official integration.
Seems like it was the loop back that caused the issue. If I have that activated it doesnât record when motion is detected. On removed it works fine. Is this by default or something that I can fix? 
Recording is handled by Home Assistant, this integration just exposes the stream URL.
Hi!
I donât know why but for a few days my Tapo C200 camera stopped working on Home Assistant. It is simply not available. I tried to delete it to reconnect it from the beginning, but when it asks me for access I keep getting this error: âInvalid authentication data. Make sure you have created your 3rd party account via Tapo app. You can also test if these credentials work via rtsp stream, for example VLC using link rtsp://username:password@IP Address:554/stream1â. Obviously my account is created and the credentials are validâŚ
I have not done anything! Suddenly it stopped working!
I have two other C310 cameras that still work great on Home Assistant⌠Any advice?
Thank you!!!
Hello. I have a problem that camera.snapshot create file with zero size for camera from tapo integration, but with general camera snapshot works. Does anyone know how to fix such problem ?
There are closed GitHub issues for that, e.g.:
Maybe these help.
Itâs look very strange but camera.snapshot works with _sd entity, but not with _hd
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Hey guys,
Iâm now using the Go2RTC addon in order to have WebRTC and avoid any lag (without using ffmpeg or stream).
However Iâm wondering how to optimize my setup, especially since Iâm gonna use Frigate sometime.
So today I have the TAPO integration that makes a camera in HA and opens a flux towards the cameras (only when used or always?).
I also have the GO2RTC but I donât know if HA takes the flux from the TAPO device and adds it in the webrtc server and uses this feed or if the webrtc takes directly the info and opens a flux towards the camera.
If I go with frigate, I need to open yet another flux towards it.
In the TAPO integration, there is a custom URL, what is itâs purpose? Is there a way to add a feature in this addon where you can specify creating the camera entity, just like the binary sensor for movement?
Thanks for your input!
What I do is use low quality streams in ha and high quality in frigate.
Custom URL is for a case when you have a RTSP restreamer so that more devices than one can access the camera. (Fyi frigate already can restream. I have opened bug issue on its repo about additional delay introduced).
You can disable camera entities and they will not be used.
Bought these cameras due to this component - well done! Getting this error after hacs download, restart and adding integration - âConfig flow could not be loaded: undefinedâ
I tried the manual appraoch but I dont have custom compenents so not sure exactly where that folder should be. Any ideas?
What version of HA are you running?
I am running core on a linux microserver.
I meant version number of HA.
running 2022 9.4
Ok, then that is probably not the issue what I thought.
As I can recall dependency issues lead usually that error message, but I might be wrong.
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Do you have any fancy configuration on your network? Or are you trying to add a camera at a remote location?
Can you post if any error message in the logs regarding this integration? (There should be somethingâŚ)