ESP32-CAM not visible when accessing HA from outside?

steven1977 · April 18, 2019, 12:51pm

I have an ESP32-CAM module connected to my home assistant and now I see that when I connect to my HA from outside my home (through https & DuckDNS) the camera images are not shown.

Is this because I’m accessing HA from outside? Or because I use https and the esp32-cam is on http ?

tom_l · April 18, 2019, 3:25pm

It’s not because of this. I have http cameras working over duckDNS https.

Showing your relevant config (camera config, Lovelace camera card) might help.

steven1977 · April 18, 2019, 5:07pm

I’m not home now, but I can already say that I use the picture card. Maybe that is the problem?

tom_l · April 18, 2019, 11:36pm

I’m using picture entity cards and generic camera components (not streaming).

steven1977 · April 19, 2019, 4:28am

I followed the instructions from this web page :
https://randomnerdtutorials.com/esp32-cam-video-streaming-web-server-camera-home-assistant/

What do you mean by generic camera components?

tom_l · April 19, 2019, 5:33am

steven1977 · April 19, 2019, 6:01am

I tried entering following code :

camera:
  - platform: generic
    name: cam_gang
    still_image_url: http://192.168.0.156
    verify_ssl: false

Still doesn’t work, I even do not see a new card.
But HA shows that the “camera” component as an unused entity.

maybe that is the problem? Because it seems that I already tried that code and it was still in my configuration.yaml

tom_l · April 19, 2019, 6:57am

Add your own card. E.g.

entity: camera.lounge
type: picture-entity

steven1977 · April 19, 2019, 10:57am

now you completely lost me
Where do I enter this code ? in configuration.yaml or in the configure UI -> add manual card? Do I enter this code before my “camera:” code?

The documentation of Home Assistant lacks a little bit for people who are still learning.

sorry for asking all these questions and I’m glad that you’re trying to help

tom_l · April 19, 2019, 11:01am

Configure UI, add a picture entity card. Paste your config there.

Also I’m pretty sure this isn’t correct:

    still_image_url: http://192.168.0.156

max-men · March 8, 2020, 10:54pm

Hello.

I can’t see my camera outside my network, using DNS.

Were you able to solve your problem?

How to configure?

Robert_Que · May 25, 2020, 11:08am

Hi Tom,

I have got the same issue as Steven1977. May you show me your config?

tom_l · May 25, 2020, 11:28am

entity: camera.front
name: Driveway
show_state: false
type: picture-entity

bsidebottom · January 19, 2021, 7:28pm

Did anyone find a solution to this? I have same problem. Camera work fine over .local or 192.x.x.x but not over my duck DNS. Thanks.