Hassio and cameras

Installation Home Assistant OS
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Same here, it looks like the patch didn’t work.

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I’m still having this problem with Hassio V53.

Has anyone found a fix or a work-around here?

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Interesting same here Hass becomes absolutely unresponsive when calling the tab with my rtsp xiaomi cam ill setup hassio again and just add this cam into dashboard maybe this will work as I need I only there

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Let us know if this trick works :slight_smile:

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Just tersted with 3 xiaomi cams and it works fine so far let me post it later

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FFMEG still dont works for me

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what to put in configurationb for ffmpeg?

In hassbian I had this

ffmpeg:
  ffmpeg_bin: /usr/bin/
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Are you using a raspberry pi? I am also experienced similar issues when trying to integrate the new Ring Video doorbell camera…

If it is just camera’s you want to use, and have a couple of them, I would suggest setting up a dedicated cam server running zoneminder and then simply using the Zoneminder component…

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Another pi3 is ok?

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pi3 may be just about ok for maybe 2 camera’s… try playing around in a Virtual machine first to see what kind of performance you will need for your setup… I have just got a second hand quad core server off ebay for exactly this purpose… Much better to have a dedicated CCTV system for recording etc, this then can be fed through to HA in the Zoneminder component… Downside is ZM is super power hungry…

Play around in Virtual box first… you can always backup your config if you have phpmyadmin installed after you install zoneminder:

  1. https://www.virtualbox.org/
  2. https://wiki.zoneminder.com/Ubuntu_Server_16.04_64-bit_with_Zoneminder_1.30.4_the_easy_way
  3. https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-and-secure-phpmyadmin-on-ubuntu-16-04

A good place to then go and look for all your different kind of camera’s is iSpy - https://www.ispyconnect.com/sources.aspx

One of my favourite little programs for windows machines is Yawcam which turns a usb camera into an IP Camera which you can pug into Zoneminder… - http://www.yawcam.com/

Lastly, I have to say, that at the moment, my favourite cams for inside are these… good quality… super cheap: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Digoo-HD-960P-Wireless-WiFi-IP-Camera-Home-Security-Network-CCTV-IR-Night-Vision

Hope this helps…

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nice find. How you integrate them in HASS? How (if) do you record?

Anything similar for outside?

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this is cool too

https://www.banggood.com/Digoo-SB-XYA-Smart-Home-Wireless-Bluetooth-and-WIFI-Video-Doorbell-Pro-HD-Video-DoorBell-Camera-p-1189508.html?rmmds=search

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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

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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?