Ffmpeg camera with -header argument

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Hi there, newbie here.

So I have an Annke 4CH NVR (N44WBF0) and after a lot of searching I managed to get a live stream from the NVR and played it successfully via ffplay:

.\ffplay -headers "Authorization: Basic [base64user:pass]=" -i "http://[nvr_address]/livestream/21?action=play&media=video_audio_data/track=video"

This plays successfully via ffplay and was also able to stream it from ffmpeg to VLC. The problem I have is when adding it to Home Assistant.This is what I have:

camera:

  - platform: ffmpeg

    input: "-headers 'Authorization: Basic [base64user:pass]=' -i 'http://[nvr_address]/livestream/21?action=play&media=video_audio_data/track=video'"

    name: "Test"

And this is the result (log output):
av.error.FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: "'http://[nvr_address]/livestream/21?action=play&media=video_audio_data/track=video'"

If I try without the -header argument, I obviously get the 401 Not authorized error.
Server returned 401 Unauthorized (authorization failed): 'http://[nvr_address]/livestream/21?action=play&media=video_audio_data/track=video'

So the question is, how can I pass the -header Authorization argument to be able to authenticate and then get the stream going?

Cheers!

3

Looks like they have different formats for accessing channels on different systems. Not sure which applies to yours (or if yours is an even different format):

Might find other examples on their site, or googling the internet in general.

4

@Brandon_Caruana
Have you find a solution on how to pass the -headers?

Thanks a lot
Stefano

5

Unfortunately no :frowning:

6

Thanks for your reply Brandon