Hi all,
I just started learning/using HomeAssistant and its awesome. I downloaded and configured TP-Link Smart Home Integration and it detected my 3 C100 cameras, but when I entered my credentials for live streaming, it gave me a error message. Now I see the 3 cameras in my Smart Home intergration but I don’t see anywhere to see the streaming video (which works fine from my Tapo App on my iPhone). How do I add a streaming window that shows the camera views to my dashboard?
The TP-Link / Tapo native integration is not great for controlling or using the camera’s.
Recommend that you remove the camera(s) from the TP-Link integration and switch to Tapo: Cameras Control
This integration will expose a heap more entities, including video feeds from the camera(s) that you can use to display on the dashboard
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Your other alternative is to drop all the Tapo integrations and use RTSP on the camera via the Generic Camera integration.
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Thank you @bambamNZ!!! I did as you mentioned and its working now. The error message upon trying to initialize the video stream was more descriptive in this Cameras Control Integration and told me to go to the Tapo App > Camera > Advanced Settings > Camera Account and turn on 3rd party Camera Account to establish a separate user and password for RTSP. Once I did this the Cameras Control app connected and I was able to get the live stream. It is very similar to the original official TP-Link native integration - I suspect if I use the official integration it would work now that I have enabled RTSP on all the cameras. I still can’t find a way to review recordings that were made on each camera’s SD cards - seems like I need to rely on the Tapo App for that. The newer Tapo Cameras Control integration does not seem to have any entities that allow one to select recordings based on time.
Thanks @nwootton - I didn’t know about RTSP and once I turned that on the cameras the Tapo Cameras Control worked and I suspect the official TP-Link Smart Home integration would work as well. I’m sure now your generic camera integration would work as well. I just wished it was clearer that I had to enable this RTSP camera account.