Generic camera platform with Yale (ASSA ABLOY) wireless camera

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I have a Yale (ASSA ABLOY) Smart Living indoor Wi-Fi camera.
I have been trying to set this up with the Generic IP Camera component but the issue is that I have only been able to find an RTSP stream URL and not a still image one.

The best I have been able to do so far is to have still_image_url point to an image file in the www folder like this:

camera:
  - platform: generic
    name: yale_camera
    still_image_url: http://home-assistant-hostname:8123/local/camera/yale_camera.jpg
    stream_source: !secret yale_camera_url

(where the yale_camera_url secret is the RTSP url of the camera)
and then have an automation which regularly runs the following command to capture a still frame to that image file:

avconv -i "rtsp://username:password@192.*.*.*" -frames:v 1 /home/homeassistant/.homeassistant/www/camera/yale_camera.jpg -y > /dev/null 2>&1

This doesn’t seem to be the most efficient or secure way of doing this, is there a better way?

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Did you ever figure out another way to do this please?
Just dusted off a Yale cam that I got free and never used. Surprised at the quality of the stream so far!

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I never found a better way of doing it, I’m still using an automation which regularly downloads a still frame (although needed to change it to use ffmpeg instead of avconv since I moved to a Docker installation).

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I’ve just worked that bit out myself, great. Thanks for the quick response!

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I know it has been a while, but I came across this thread and I am wondering, how did you get username and password for RTSP stream from your Yale camera? I have Yale living all in one outdoor 1080p model, according to port scanner it gives RTSP stream, but no way to use it without username and password. Any useful tips, @Steven_Rollason or @BigManDave ? :wink:

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I don’t use the camera anymore as I switched to a full NVR system.
However looking through my old config I can see that I used a custom password and username ‘admin’.
I can only assume it must be set somewhere in the Yale View app, network config perhaps?

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Thanks, will try that :slight_smile:

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Hi I know this is an old thread but i have managed to get my Yale all in one outdoor cameras to work live on my dashboard if anyone would like to know how i did it just let me know

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Hi. I would love to know please!

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I have linked to the thread I made regarding this.