Esp32 wrover and webcam

[frankz66]

Hi everyone, I would like to interface esp32 wRover with an Nvr system and then configure it. In addition to this nvr on home Assistant, can anyone give me some feedback?

[koying (Chris B)]

What do you want to do with your ESP in relation to your NVR, exactly?

[frankz66]

I would like to connect with RTSP protocol to be able to see the images and then use it as a streaming video camera

[koying (Chris B)]

Still unclear who connects to what and why, but have you seen

ESP32 Cam / ESP Home / Frigate

I have been going back and forth on a few topics trying to find the right settings to enable an ESP32 cam to stream to Frigate so I thought I would summarise my findings here. It’s a very basic camera but I wanted to play around before my proper security cameras arrive from Amazon. To my surprise the detection even on a low res video is quite good for alerts - will think of where I could use this project as I initially thought it to be a throw away… My setup involves a HAOS on a Proxmox VM and …

[nickrout]

Esphome does not create an RTSP stream. The thread linked by @koying shows you how to use the esp32 camera with frigate, but RTSP it is not.

[koying (Chris B)]

To be clear, RTSP it is not for sure, but ESPHome allows to stream MJPEG from, e.g, an ESPcam through

ESP32 Camera Web Server Component

But yeah, unclear whether OP wants to connect an ESP camera to his NVR or …