My cameras are operational using the generic camera however Im not sure how to access any line crossing alerts / motion notifications etc
I assumed they would be picked up as an entity when the cameras were detected.
As far as Im aware, the camera interface is correctly configured with all the digest / surveillance boxes ticked.
Are there further settings (in HA) to configure as we arent using the platform: Hikvision method?
The generic camera integration doesn’t have any support for additional sensors, and it’s very unlikely to in the future.
If you have extra line crossing, motion detection binary sensors, etc, then you need to either implement those via a separate integration (e.g. mqtt etc), or use something like ONVIF.
I highly recommend ONVIF over generic if your camera supports it. Or of course a camera specific integration.
Cheers for that, ONVIF integrates much better and has all the sensors.
Now to work out alerts and how to show the last trigger photo in HA…