hello, is it possible to detect when my camera is offline, perhaps an event that would fire when the stream is no longer playing?
my camera often hangs and i would like to reboot it via a smart power socket.
thanks
hello, is it possible to detect when my camera is offline, perhaps an event that would fire when the stream is no longer playing?
my camera often hangs and i would like to reboot it via a smart power socket.
thanks
I just use an automation to check if the camera is unavailable (the state I find it in when it stops streaming), seems to work well for me.
alias: Reboot Unavailable Cameras
id: reboot_unavailable_cameras
mode: single
triggers:
- trigger: state
id: tt-8l_gatekeeper
entity_id: camera.tt_8l_gatekeeper
from: null
to: unavailable
for:
hours: 0
minutes: 0
seconds: 5
actions:
- action: button.press
target:
entity_id: button.tt_8l_gatekeeper_reboot
Hello, thanks for answer but I don’t have this entity tt_8l_gatekeeper
. Should this be provided by frigate HACS integration ?
That’s the id of my camera, just change it to your cameras id. Also the reboot action is specific to Tapo Camera Control integration, you’ll need to change that to use the switch you mentioned in the OP.
is your pasted format correct? I get YAML parsing error
Error in parsing YAML: bad indentation of a mapping entry (line: 2, column: 5)
and if i unindent, then it saves it but fails to set up
alias: Reboot Unavailable Cameras
id: reboot_unavailable_cameras
mode: single
triggers:
- trigger: state
id: front
entity_id: camera.front
from: null
to: unavailable
for:
hours: 0
minutes: 0
seconds: 5
actions:
- action: button.press
target:
entity_id: switch.smart_socket_2
Your new automation has saved, but waiting for it to setup has timed out. This could be due to errors parsing your configuration.yaml…
Also, just to be sure:
Settings > Automations & Scenes > Create automation > Edit in YAML ?
Ok i managed to create something, will see if it works
Thanks a lot!
Ya I have my automations in seperate files and forgot to compensate for it being a list item, your indentation looks right.
That said you’re using a switch from the looks of it switch.smart_socket_2
, but switches aren’t buttons so button.press
will have no effect. You need to use switch actions, something like this.
actions:
- action: switch.turn_off
target:
entity_id: switch.smart_socket_2
- delay:
seconds: 5
- action: switch.turn_on
target:
entity_id: switch.smart_socket_2