Foscam app V2 (Appdaemon and HAdashboard)

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you need to set it up in Home assistant.
component foscam

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Yeah I have the component set up and am able to view it in home assistant. I just canā€™t get the API link that you used to work in HADashboard

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if the streaming from the app isnt working its mostly because people have https setup in homeassistant.

you need to be able to reach your camera like this:
http://HA_IP:8123/api/camera_proxy_stream/camera.HA_CAMNAME?api_password=YOURPW

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Yeah, Iā€™m using duckdns with letsencrypt. How can I get it to work then? I have everything else set up and working

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the only way that i know is to use something like NGINX as proxyserver to provide letsencrypt and remove letsencrypt from home assistant.
the advantage you have from that is that your dashboards will keep working when your internet is down.
the way you have set it up now your dashboards (and when you use it, your appdaemon automations) will stop working as soon as you have a bad internet connection, a problem in your router, or when duckdns has a problem.

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Alright good to know. Iā€™ll take a look into that. Thanks again for your help!

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Ok so i was able to get the NGINX addon installed and setup. Iā€™m able to access my HA from http and https now and can also view the camera feed from the link that the foscam.py generates in a web browser but it still doesnā€™t show on a dashboard -_-

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is the dashboard new created?
in the dashboard is the camera link there the local IP link?

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Yeah it created a new dashboard. For some reason itā€™s using https though. Iā€™ve tried changing it to http but it just loads https when it opens in a browser. The link that it generates works perfectly fine in a browser. Just not in the dashboard

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the dashboard gets the url from your appdaemon.yaml.
if you have set the url there to HTTPS, the dashboard also will use HTTPS for the cam.

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Hmmmā€¦ got that changed and now the app creates the dashboard using http for the camera instead of https but itā€™s still not loading on the dashboard :confused: Iā€™m at a complete loss now. Anymore suggestions? The feed shows up in home assistant using the foscam component

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hmm, difficult.
does it happen on all devices? also on the PC in google chrome?
the complete foscam dashboard show up correctly, only the cam doesnt show its pics?
you could try if this does something:
set create dashboard to false, so that it doesnt get recreated.
then modify the dashboard file and change the line from the camera.
change: /api/camera_proxy_stream/camera.
to: /api/camera_proxy/camera.

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Yeah the complete foscam dashboard has always worked fine other than being able to see the camera image and control the motion detection. I tried your suggestion but it didnā€™t change anything. This is whatā€™s showing up

dashboard
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you did have the wrong url at first, so maybe there is a cash problem somewhere.

  1. delete cash on the devices that you tried it on
  2. delete all files in the subdirs:
    conf/compiled/html
    conf/compiled/css
    conf/compiled/js
  3. restart your device.

by the way, you didnt respond to that, did you try in google chrome on a PC? not all browsers react the same way and some may have trouble.

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Do your app works with Foscam Fi9900P camera?

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its not 1 off the cams i know, so you have to use the test that is on the github (or in the first posting from this topic) to make sure if it does or not.

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I tried your suggestions but still wasnā€™t able to get it to work. Iā€™ve tried every browser at my disposal and every device.

The weirdest part is that if I type the link into a web browser it works perfectly and Iā€™m able to see the camera feed but it just wonā€™t work in the dashboard itself

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in google chrome check in the console if you can find an error (ctrl shift i)

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Ok so its bringing up an internal server 500 error saying server got itself in trouble and this is the link it was trying to open. http://192.168.1.9:5050/&time=1518068277. Shouldnā€™t it be trying to open up http://192.168.1.9:8123/api/camera_proxy_stream/camera.livingroom?api_password=password?

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am trying to get my head around your situation.
the link you provide suggest you have appdaemon 3.0 beta installed (the time part was only implemented in that one)
can you show me what is inside your dashboard that has the name you did set after the option:
alarm_dashboard_file_name and after the option:
dashboard_file_name

somehow i got the feeling that something is still wrongly cashed.