Hassio and cameras

Installation Home Assistant OS
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Hi,
These are the particular settings in ZM (after clicking add new monitor)

On General Tab
Name: Whatever yo uwant to call your camera
Server: None
Source Type: Ffmpeg
Funtion: Select record etc (read the ZM docs to see what each function does)

Leave all other settings on here blank

On Source Tab:
Source Path rtsp://username_of_camera:[email protected]:554/onvif
remote method: UDP
Terget Colourspace: 32 bit colour
Capture width 1280
Height: 900

Otherwise, these also work withj ONVIF detection which may simply be easier…

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This may not integrate with Home assistant… Zoneminder integrates with ZM… try that first on a VM before spending any cash…

I have 15 cameras and a dedicated zoneminder server which is currently running at around about 30% processor power… spec is:

HP ProLiant ML350 G6 2x Xeon E5606 Quad Core 2.13GHz, 16GB RAM, 2x 300GB 15k LFF

So steps again:

  1. Get all your cameras connected to a Zoneminder installation (either VM or dedicated server, I think you can actually even run this in AWS)

  2. Configure ZM component in Home Assistant…

  3. All your camera’s from ZM will then automatically showup in Home assistant

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is it now working with ffmpeg 1.9 (hass 0.56)?

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I have HASS version 0.56.1 and have the same problem with a onvif cam. Hass loads and the after a couple of minutes the website is non responsive.

Running hass.io on Raspberry pi 3b

38

Same here, same issue using ffmpg camera even after latest update.

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To all, I would recommend connecting your camera’s to a dedicated CCTV platform first. Currently Zoneminder is the only platform that has a component for Home assistant. I have made a feature request here: Shinobi Camera Component for another really promsing brand new, free, cross platform cctv platform called Shinobi.

This way:

  1. you only have to manage 1 camera component in HA
  2. you ucan record on motion detect, trigger recording from HA sensors
  3. All your recordings can be stored in one place (local/Lan or even ftp and email)
  4. There is less performance impact on your HA environment

but hey… each to their own…

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Hi. Anyone know if there is any news with ffmpeg?

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Same here - crashing/freezing with ffmpeg for Arlo/RIng cameras… using Hassio 0.57.2 on RasPi3, just noticed 0.57.3 and will report back if any changes…

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there is 0.58 now

43

hassio??? Not for me

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ok, so I thought there was an update available for hass.io based on seeing this on my frontend:
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but then I just checked the Hass.io advanced settings page and found this:
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so unfortunately i got a bit ahead of myself. sorry

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Just curious… why are you guys wanting to integrate camera’s directly into Home Assistant as opposed to via Zoneminder?

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I just want to be able to view a single camera as a feed when someone presses my doorbell. I no longer have a dedicated recorder due to moving into a rental property.

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I’ve tried it both ways, and while zoneminder is great, it occasionally loses the video feed and fails to reconnect, leaving a blank view on hassio. disabling and reenabling the camera in zm fixes it, but that is getting old. Zoneminder is somewhat difficult to setup and needs a linux install.

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I’m not a fan of Zoneminder. No audio last I checked, and I think only jpeg capable for storage. Also since it’s an older project, there’s a ton of very outdated information out there.

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Well, thats why I suggested shinobi, but there is no component for it… so zm is the only viable option at present…

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Aye! I’m picking up what you’re putting down.

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Hi there!

Recently setup my Home Assistant and was looking into piping in my Xiaomi IP Cameras before I came across this discussion

I am currently running 3 Xiaomi cameras on a RasPi 3 running motionEye and as being pretty new to this, wondering if there is a component for motionEye

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I would suggest that instead of integrating each component seperately, I would spin up an instance of Zoneminder and then simply integrate the Zoneminder component.

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Hey there,

I have been using an old version of Motion for the past year or so and it works great

I found though that running on a PI3 with an IP cam and a USB one connected, the PI3 was capable of running 3 cams at the most if it’s only used for the camera management.

Depending also of what you are doing with your pictures / movies

I had them saved on a remote disk where i could have access to them through a small web server.

then you just need to add a camere component for each of them through the IP and port configured in Motion and bingo, you will have a live feed of your camera through Hass
like that one

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