FFMPEG Camera from a local file

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Hi all,

I have a setup where a security camera RTSP stream writes to a file on the HA server. Rather than eat up network space with HA also hitting the camera with RTSP, I’d like to stream the newest frames from the local file. I’ve have this:

- platform: ffmpeg
  name: Test
  input: /cctv/cam/test.avi
  #extra_arguments: -sseof -1 # Tried this too, no luck.

And in my main config:

homeassistant:
  whitelist_external_dirs:
    - /cctv/cam

The test.avi file is a constantly written to file from the RTSP stream. The only thing similar I’ve found is Ffmpeg camera from local video file, but their only solution was to stream the file via VLC. And the live hack didn’t work for me either.

The error I get is:

ERROR (stream_worker) [homeassistant.components.stream.stream.camera.test] Error from stream worker: Stream ended; no additional packets

Ideas?