EZViz Camera connection to HA

Configuration
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I had exactly the same doubts. I wanted to set up Ezviz

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Anything new with this one?

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The camera name can be anything as far as I understand it, you choose.
For Ezviz cameras the username is Admin, the password is the “verification code” printed under the camera next to the QR Code.

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Managed to get the setup all complete for my Ezviz, the only issue I have is the actual camera won’t display in a picture.entity card? I get am image to show this:

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Now I know the camera isn’t truly idle as I’m viewing on the mobile app so I assume I’ve missed something in the setup that’s stopping the communication? I’ve only had the thing 20 minutes and it was all going so well!

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Managed to resolve this and also stand corrected on the camera name - it should be the serial number as stated on the device. With that changed I’m all up and running and have my camera loaded into HA with full PTZ and toggle switches for features. The only thing I wish I could change is the refresh/framerate but I guess this is down to the camera rather than HA settings

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Pierre, author of integration, told me almost 2 months ago that there are bugs with c6t.
And i don’t have any updates so far

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What with Ezviz CTQTC

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Ciao, sei più riuscito a far funzionare le cam Ezviz marchiate Tim? Se si, come? Grazie!

Hi, did you get Tim’s Ezviz cameras working? If yes, how? Thanks!

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Yes but the stream was a little bit late. I ended up using kerberos.io so i can use the motion sensor too. You can set it up with the platform generic and the rstp input same in kerberos.oo

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Motioneye! Solved all my issues. Installed the add on.
Added the stream urls and worked straight away. And with another make of camera. Add an iframe to the lovelace card also.
Within 10 minutes had them all set up.

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goodmorning, can i know how did you set up the ezviz cameras to motion eye? thanks so much

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Hi All, I just finished the config for my EZVIZ C3a cam on motioneye. I selected network cam on rtsp://local IP of Camera:554/H.264 and typed in the user (admin) and password (encryptionkey on the camera)
Camera is working in motioneye and I was able to add the video stream in HA after changing configuration.yaml

#MotionEye
camera:
    platform: mjpeg
    name: TestCam1
    still_image_url:  copied URL from motioneye
    mjpeg_url: copied URL from motioneye
    username: admin
    password: password login to Motioneye

But how can I use the motion detection from the cam to switch on some lights?
I think it needs to be done with the webhook system? but I can use some hlp on that topic.

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different method I guess.
I just added the url from motioneye after they were added into an iframe card on HA.

Have you managed to set static IP’s on them?
I tried on my router but they still change if the router or power does down.

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I added the EZVIZ camera to the dhcp static reserved list on my router. (DHCP server). It’s getting the same IP every time.

I also get the video stream on the iframe card, no problem.

But I cannot figure out how to use the motion detection as a trigger in my automations?

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Unortunately my ISP router does not have the option. I tried on my second router (Asus) but as its not the DHCP server it loses them.
One day I need to call the ISP company and set the main router as a bridge and switch off their DHCP. If I have another DHCP switched on then I get conflicts obviously.

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I am using the EZVIZ camera in motion eye too mate.

You need to use the MQTT sensor and create a motion sensor and then use the MQTT command in motion eye to trigger the sensor on or off and then automate around it. Let me know if you need to see any config etc

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Can we get your camera configuration section as an example ?

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Please share if you can :slight_smile:

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stream:

Example configuration.yaml entry

camera:

  • platform: ffmpeg
    name: Garden
    input: rtsp://admin:password(code on the camera XXXXXX)@ipadress:554

Then set up a MQtt sensor as below

binary_sensor:

  • platform: mqtt
    state_topic: “home/backyard/camera/motion”
    name: Backyard camera Motion
    device_class: motion

You need to add the camera as an Ip camera in Motion eye

And control it from the motion eye under Motion Notifications use the following commands for ON and OFF

mosquitto_pub -h localhost -u mqttusername -P mqttpassword -t home/backyard/camera/motion -m “ON” -r

mosquitto_pub -h localhost -u mqttusername -P mqttpassword -t home/backyard/camera/motion -m “OFF” -r

Regards
AcG

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Please see below mate